Semiotic Perspectives

Author : Sándor Hervey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781315528274

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Semiotic Perspectives by Sándor Hervey Pdf

First published in 1982, this book looks at a wide variety of issues concerning the vast field of study that is ‘semiotics. It begins by tracing the beginnings of modern semiotics in the works two pioneering figures — Saussure and Peirce — in order to present fundamental assumptions, notions and distinctions which provide an essential background to the more recent developments. The author then goes on to look at Behavioural Semiotics, Luis Prieto’s idea of "l’Acte Semique", Austin’s theory of ‘Speech Acts’ and Searle’s elaborations, Barthes’ move away from philosophical and scientific approaches in his ideology of Socio-Cultural Signification, Functionalism and Axiomatic Functionalism, style as a form of communication, semiotics of the cinema, and communicative behaviour in non-human species.

Author : Andrew Stables,Winfried Nöth,Alin Olteanu,Eetu Pikkarainen,Sébastien Pesce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367487802

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Semiotic Theory of Learning by Andrew Stables,Winfried Nöth,Alin Olteanu,Eetu Pikkarainen,Sébastien Pesce Pdf

Semiotic Theory of Learning asks what learning is and what brings it about, challenging the hegemony of psychological and sociological constructions of learning in order to develop a burgeoning literature in semiotics as an educational foundation. Drawing on theoretical research and its application in empirical studies, the book attempts to avoid the problematization of the distinction between theory and practice in semiotics. It covers topics such as signs, significance and semiosis; the ontology of learning; the limits of learning; ecosemiotics; ecology and sexuality. The book is written by five of the key figures in the semiotics field, each committed to the belief that living is a process of interaction through acts of signification with a signifying environment. While the authors are agreed on the value of semiotic frameworks, the book aims not to present an entirely coherent line in every respect, but rather to reflect ongoing scholarship and debates in the area. In light of this, the book offers a range of possible interpretations of major semiotic theorists, unsettling assumptions while offering a fresh, and still developing, series of perspectives on learning from academics grounded in semiotics. Semiotic Theory of Learning is a timely and valuable text that will be of great interest to academics, researchers and postgraduates working in the fields of educational studies, semiotics, psychology, philosophy, applied linguistics and media studies.

Author : Elizabeth Mertz
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781483288864

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Semiotic Mediation by Elizabeth Mertz Pdf

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Author : Karl-Otto Apel
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0719055385

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From a Transcendental-semiotic Point of View by Karl-Otto Apel Pdf

Collected together in English, Karl-Otto Apel's work covers a spectrum of philosophical issues. This work is aimed at academics and students concerned with (post-)analytical philosophy, epistemology, history of science, Heidegger's fundamental ontology, current debates about transcendental modes of argument, second-generation Frankfurt School thinkers and American pragmatists. It is also aimed at those interested in reformulations of Kantian themes and redefinitions of older ideas within the linguistic paradigm, as well as those who, being familiar with Habermas' work, wish to know more about the controversies and debates within the circle of the Frankfurt School itself.

Author : David Kirshner,James A. Whitson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000106046

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Situated Cognition by David Kirshner,James A. Whitson Pdf

This book is a result of a symposium at a recent annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association that explored foundational issues relative to situated cognition theory. Its chapters contribute to discourse about repositioning situated cognition theory within the broader supporting disciplines and to resolving the problematics addressed within the book. There is a cumulative vision to the book -- its theme is that the notion of the individual in situated cognition theory needs to be fundamentally reformulated. No theoretical reconfiguration of the social world or of social practices can overcome an individual cast in the dualist tradition. This reformulation probes the physiological, psychoanalytic, and semiotic constitution of persons. Chapters authors cover a wide range of topics including: * transfer of training -- arguing that traditional cognitive psychology has found precious little evidence of people's ability to apply knowledge gained in one context to the problems encountered in another; * ecosocial systems -- a new object of inquiry for situated cognition theory in which the primary units of analysis are not things or people, but processes and practices; * how linkages between discursive practices are manifested as semiotic chaining of signifiers for individuals engaged in everyday activities at home or at school; * how the ability to function in ways that are consistent with logic emerges not through reflective abstraction on actions, but through an enhanced sense of agency as more responsible roles are adopted in daily life practices; * the mutual constitution of social and individual knowledge -- familiar terms and concepts normally available through linguistic labels are cultural models, to be distinguished from the variegated and hidden mid-level meanings that reflect their situated uses in social activity; * the material (neurological) substrate through which cultural models and mid-level meanings emerge; and * how learning environments can be structured to take advantage of the perceptual underpinnings of cognition.

Author : Leo van Lier
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781402079122

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The Ecology and Semiotics of Language Learning by Leo van Lier Pdf

In this book I try to give a coherent and consistent overview of what an ecological approach to language learning might look like. This is not a fully fledged grand theory that aims to provide an explanation of everything, but an attempt to provide a rationale for taking an ecological world view and applying it to language education, which I regard as one of the most important of all human activities. Goethe once said that everything has been thought of before, but that the difficulty is to think of it again. The same certainly is true of the present effort. If it has any innovative ideas to offer, these lie in a novel combination of thoughts and ideas that have been around for a long, long time. The reader will encounter influences that range from Spinoza to Bakhtin and from Vygotsky to Halliday. The scope of the work is intentionally broad, covering all major themes that are part of the language learning process and the language teaching profession. These themes include language, perception and action, self, learning, critical pedagogy and research. At the same time I have attempted to look at both the macro and the micro sides of the ecological coin, and address issues from both a theoretical and a practical perspective. This, then, aims to be a book that can be read by practitioners and theoreticians alike, and the main idea is that it should be readable and challenging at the same time.

Author : Virginia Volterra,Maria Roccaforte,Alessio Di Renzo,Sabina Fontana
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027257840

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Italian Sign Language from a Cognitive and Socio-semiotic Perspective by Virginia Volterra,Maria Roccaforte,Alessio Di Renzo,Sabina Fontana Pdf

This volume reveals new insights on the faculty of language. By proposing a new approach in the analysis and description of Italian Sign Language (LIS), that can be extended also to other sign languages, this book also enlightens some aspects of spoken languages, which were often overlooked in the past and only recently have been brought to the fore and described. First, the study of face-to-face communication leads to a revision of the traditional dichotomy between linguistic and enacted, to develop a new approach to embodied language (Kendon, 2004). Second, all structures of language take on a sociolinguistic and pragmatic meaning, as proposed by cognitive semantics, which considers it impossible to trace a separation between purely linguistic and extralinguistic knowledge. Finally, if speech from the point of view of its materiality is variable, fragile, and non-segmentable (i.e. not systematically discrete), also signs are not always segmentable into discrete, invariable and meaningless units. This then calls into question some of the properties traditionally associated with human languages in general, notably that of ‘duality of patterning’. These are only some of the main issues you will find in this volume that has no parallel both in sign and in spoken languages linguistic research.

Author : Winfried Nöth
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110803617

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Semiotics of the Media by Winfried Nöth Pdf

Author : Tzvetan Todorov
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0801492882

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Theories of the Symbol by Tzvetan Todorov Pdf

Focusing on theories of verbal symbolism, Tzvetan Todorov here presents a history of semiotics. From an account of the semiotic doctrines embodied in the works of classical rhetoric to an exploration of representative modern concepts of the symbol found in ethnology, psychoanalysis, linguistics, and poetics, Todorov examines the rich tradition of sign theory. In the course of his discussion Todorov treats the works of such writers as Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian, Augustine, Condillac, Lessing, Diderot, Goethe, Novalis, the Schlegel brothers, Levy-Bruhl, Freud, Saussure, and Jakobson.

Author : SunHee Kim Gertz,Jaan Valsiner,Jean-Paul Breaux
Publisher : IAP
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781607527145

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Semiotic Rotations by SunHee Kim Gertz,Jaan Valsiner,Jean-Paul Breaux Pdf

The title of our volume on interdisciplinary semiotics is situated in a geographical metaphor and points to the possibility of uncovering meanings through shifting perspectives as well as to the possibility of understanding how these various modes of meaning are articulated and framed in particular cultural instances. Regardless of medium, semiotic rotations permit play between the surface and underlying levels of a communication, reveal the relationship between open and closed systems of signification, and modulate shades of meaning caught between the visible and invisible. Readerly play in these sets of apparent oppositions reveals that the less each pairing is held to be a coupling of oppositions and the more they are observed through perspectives gained by semiotic rotations, then the more complex and rich the modes of meaning may become.

Author : Norma Presmeg,Luis Radford,Wolff-Michael Roth,Gert Kadunz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319313702

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Semiotics in Mathematics Education by Norma Presmeg,Luis Radford,Wolff-Michael Roth,Gert Kadunz Pdf

This volume discusses semiotics in mathematics education as an activity with a formal sign system, in which each sign represents something else. Theories presented by Saussure, Peirce, Vygotsky and other writers on semiotics are summarized in their relevance to the teaching and learning of mathematics. The significance of signs for mathematics education lies in their ubiquitous use in every branch of mathematics. Such use involves seeing the general in the particular, a process that is not always clear to learners. Therefore, in several traditional frameworks, semiotics has the potential to serve as a powerful conceptual lens in investigating diverse topics in mathematics education research. Topics that are implicated include (but are not limited to): the birth of signs; embodiment, gestures and artifacts; segmentation and communicative fields; cultural mediation; social semiotics; linguistic theories; chains of signification; semiotic bundles; relationships among various sign systems; intersubjectivity; diagrammatic and inferential reasoning; and semiotics as the focus of innovative learning and teaching materials.

Author : Tatiana Iskanderova
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031537516

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Unveiling Semiotic Codes of Fake News and Misinformation by Tatiana Iskanderova Pdf

Author : Andrew Stables,Winfried Nöth,Alin Olteanu,Sébastien Pesce,Eetu Pikkarainen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351725163

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Semiotic Theory of Learning by Andrew Stables,Winfried Nöth,Alin Olteanu,Sébastien Pesce,Eetu Pikkarainen Pdf

Semiotic Theory of Learning asks what learning is and what brings it about, challenging the hegemony of psychological and sociological constructions of learning in order to develop a burgeoning literature in semiotics as an educational foundation. Drawing on theoretical research and its application in empirical studies, the book attempts to avoid the problematization of the distinction between theory and practice in semiotics. It covers topics such as signs, significance and semiosis; the ontology of learning; the limits of learning; ecosemiotics; ecology and sexuality. The book is written by five of the key figures in the semiotics field, each committed to the belief that living is a process of interaction through acts of signification with a signifying environment. While the authors are agreed on the value of semiotic frameworks, the book aims not to present an entirely coherent line in every respect, but rather to reflect ongoing scholarship and debates in the area. In light of this, the book offers a range of possible interpretations of major semiotic theorists, unsettling assumptions while offering a fresh, and still developing, series of perspectives on learning from academics grounded in semiotics. Semiotic Theory of Learning is a timely and valuable text that will be of great interest to academics, researchers and postgraduates working in the fields of educational studies, semiotics, psychology, philosophy, applied linguistics and media studies.

Author : Anna Maria Lorusso
Publisher : Springer
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137546999

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Cultural Semiotics by Anna Maria Lorusso Pdf

Through a reevaluation of the work of some of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century, this book details how semiotics, social sense, and social communication can function together to analyze how culture works in the contemporary era.

Author : Adalira Sáenz-Ludlow,Gert Kadunz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789463003377

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Semiotics as a Tool for Learning Mathematics by Adalira Sáenz-Ludlow,Gert Kadunz Pdf

Semiotics as a Tool for Learning Mathematics is a collection of ten theoretical and empirical chapters, from researchers all over the world, who are interested in semiotic notions and their practical uses in mathematics classrooms. Collectively, they present a semiotic contribution to enhance pedagogical aspects both for the teaching of school mathematics and for the preparation of pre-service teachers. This enhancement involves the use of diagrams to visualize implicit or explicit mathematical relations and the use of mathematical discourse to facilitate the emergence of inferential reasoning in the process of argumentation. It will also facilitate the construction of proofs and solutions of mathematical problems as well as the progressive construction of mathematical conceptions that, eventually, will approximate the concept(s) encoded in mathematical symbols. These symbols hinge not only of mental operations but also on indexical and iconic aspects; aspects which often are not taken into account when working on the meaning of mathematical symbols. For such an enhancement to happen, it is necessary to transform basic notions of semiotic theories to make them usable for mathematics education. In addition, it is also necessary to back theoretical claims with empirical data. This anthology attempts to deal with such a conjunction. Overall, this book can be used as a theoretical basis for further semiotic considerations as well as for the design of different ways of teaching mathematical concepts.