Semiotics around the World: Synthesis in Diversity

Proceedings of the Fifth Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, Berkeley 1994

Irmengard Rauch, Gerald F. Carr

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9783110820065
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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Table of contents

• Preface
• Contents
• Volume 1
• I. Plenary Addresses
• Joining different worlds; symbols and the quest for unity
• From the fantasia through metaphor to knowledge: A Vichian perspective of conceptualization
• Some remarks on perfect languages
• Fundamentals of diachronic linguistics: Semiotic implications
• "Symbols grow" II
• Sémiotique et herméneutique: Vers une complémentarité possible
• Global semiotics
• II. Semiotics Around the World
• Semiotics in Romania: Political implications
• Sémiotique au Chili d'aujourd'hui: histoire, ruptures et champ théorique
• Semiotics in Spain
• The semiosis of cognition
• Sémiotiques belges
• Semiotics in Germany
• Semiotics in Greece
• Semiotics in Switzerland
• Semiotics in the Nordic countries
• Ill. Linguistics
• Linguistics and the language of schizophrenics
• Is nature a language? J. W. Goethe on scientific knowledge
• The semiotics of catastrophe in linguistic change
• Johann Gottfried Herder's conception of the origin of language
• The main statements of theories as determined by a semiotic method
• Emotion families
• The relationship between texts and their location
• Some consonant strategies in spoken discourse
• Les supports lexico-syntaxiques du non-fini en français et en arabe
• Zero-derivation or syntagmatic derivation
• La figuralité: Son actualité en linguistique et en sémiotique
• Perception of proverbs and familiarity with them. Figurativeness as one of the most powerful markers of proverbiality
• Sauron's Newspeak: Black Speech, Quenya, and the nature of mind
• The possible worlds of the imaginary
• Digital and nondigital information in genetic language
• Creating signs, building bridges
• Lexical and phonetic semiotic in lyrics: Agnes Miegel's Herbst
• Expression as expression - as
• Two kinds of semantics: Six intersemiotic theses
• Situational effects on the quantification of frequency words
• Cooperative organization of Japanese conversation
• Some comments on semiotics of graphic communication
• Cognitive metaphor and critical rhetoric
• Cross-cultural pragmatics in Western academic discursive practice
• Textsemantics: A bridge between linguistics and literary theory
• The social crystallization of language. Coercive traits of the social characterization in a Saussurean textus receptus tradition
• IV. Culture
• Material culture in the mirror of archival sources
• Sacrality, myth, objects: Techniques of fabrication and semiotical, anthropological interpretation of carpets and jewels from Pakistan
• American "Comics": A semiolinguistic analysis
• Waco Wackos! The emergence of American social consciousness in the jokes told surrounding the events at Waco, Texas
• For a transcultural theory of iconic creation
• "Heimat" and "mi tierra". Towards a semiotic theory of local identities from an intercultural perspective
• Verbal and visual intersemiosis in aesthetical experiments—the case of contemporary Brazilian culture
• The meaning of life: Extensional semantics in the game go
• On cultural stereotypes: A Peircean view
• African-American aesthetic of dress: Subcultural meaning and significance
• Humour and verisimilitude
• The sign behind the gate
• Noname Culture
• Destin et histoire
• Fashion and body images in youth cultures. The semiotics of Skins, Punks, New Wave and the Preppie
• Arthur Bispo do Rosario: The vertigo art
• The skin of time — a semiotic approach to death
• Fetishes, props, and prostheses-On the ecology of material objects
• Semiotic ethnocriticism: Tawada's Das Fremde aus der Dose
• Verbal means as signs of human needs in the light of an axiosemiotic theory of culture
• "Glory of Glories . . . She Wears a Hat" Dress, the immigrant and social equality in America
• A triple semiosis for the representation of stone tools in archaeology
• V. Literature: Theory, Text, Narrative, Poetics
• The reflected voices: Calvino's "If on a winter's night a traveler"
• Literary text semiotics applied to plays by Garcia Lorca
• Landscape, indirection, and feminine subjectivity in Madame Bovary
• Metaphor as autobiography
• Que dit le littéraire au théorique ?
• The value of the notion of contract to literary interpretation: Greimas, Propp, and West's Miss Lonefyhearts
• Le caractère fictionnel de la poésie lyrique
• The specific regime of verisimilitude in the thriller
• Le dialogisme de Bakhtine et la sémiotique de Peirce
• Iconic memory and intersemiotical procedures in traditional oral literatures
• The body of the postmodernist narrator
• Narrative time and the reader
• Eléments pour une sémiotique du discours poétique
• Maxims of Malice
• Narrative as a sequence of motivated signs
• Vision as meaning: Visual iconicity of Basho's haiku
• Nothing in the world is single: Metaphorical network in Shelley's "Love's Philosophy"
• "Look Ma, the giraffe's on fire!"
• The written and the spoken poem: Generic practices in their social context
• On the epistemology of addiction: The case of Josef K.
• The reality of crisis in Discépolo's Daily Losses
• Intertextuality and meaning construction in literary texts: A semiotic analysis
• Text construction and world construction in literary narratives
• Black and white and read all over: The semiotics of difference and chiaroscuro in Le Guin's Left hand of darkness
• The textual space in the novel
• The uniqueness of ontological hermeneutics among contemporary semiotic theories of interpretation
• The semiotics of Paul Valéry
• Semantic profiles and the typography of concrete poetry
• Le monde adulte et enfantin dans un journal pour enfants
• Money and the mind: Cognitive economic metaphors in Franz Kafka's Der Prozeji
• Nabokov's poetics of dates
• "Hen" Literature: Genders in conflict (Bulgarian and Romanian women writers in the period between two World Wars)
• Poetics of painting and pictures in poetry. On the semiotic space of C.F. Barnas' Vogelsberg landscapes
• Inference switching in interpretation of poetry
• The carnivalized poetics of Augusto dos Anjos
• The discourse of postmortemism: Signs on postmodern philosophical walls
• The indifférance in laughter
• VI. Architecture and Space
• The semiotics of the void
• Semiotics of spatial configurations in architecture
• Poetics of space - architecture between imagination and reality
• A semiotic-aesthetic approach to the analysis of the practice of folk architecture in market towns
• Modernism, postmodernism, and Eisenman's Nunotani building
• La conceptualisation de l'espace en architecture
• Icons, mimesis and simulacrum. Perceptual contexts
• Space as the articulation of the material and the semiotic
• Pour une sémiotique de l'installation artistique. Trois poétiques exemplaires: Recagno, Fazzolari et Médici
• A semiotic modelization of the architectural conception
• Project: Knowledge and invention. Comprehension of the architectural process
• Architectural space and urban culture PRTVE
• L'espace sociétal, sémiotiquement réalisé, comme instance de connaissance de l'espace physiquement constitué.
• The logic of architectural composition
• Experiences with urban spaces: Semiosis and rupture
• The brothel as the space of "erotic" desire?
• Hermeneutics, semiotics and architecture: Timaeus revisited
• Las Vegas strip facades: The interplay between private identity and public presence
• VII. Theater, Film and Music
• The intersemiotic language of the theater and the movies: Regina and The little foxes
• The Forte Method considered in a semiological perspective
• The language of music in Ravel
• Suspended moments: The fermata in Luigi Nono's string quartet "Fragmente - Stille, An Diotima"
• The new film semiology
• Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible in Chess Ecstasy
• Sémiotique de l' "effet sonore'VSemiotics of "sound effect"
• Cinema and literature: Theoretical studies
• Violating Shakespeare
• Musical notation: The importance of the relative value of its signs for the interpretation
• A resignìficatìon of the tango
• Music and tense
• Identité sexuelle et la signification au théâtre
• Modeling analysis and signification in music
• Intersemiotic translation: The Peircean basis
• "Beautiful butterflies trapped down by drawing pins" or, Peter Greenaway's The belly of an architect: A bagful of signs and designs
• Binary semantic opposition in Debussy
• The politics of melancholy
• What's black and white and misread all over? Race, identity and community in "Judge Priest"
• The iconic sign: from narrative prose to performance (Machado de Assis' The Psychiatrist)
• Introduction to a semiological model of musical time
• Le récit dans le théâtre contemporain: facteur d'éclatement de la spécificité dramatique?
• Conscious illusions: The problem of the cinematic frame
• Overlapping semiotic systems : Paintings in new films
• Dance in process