Recently added articles from The American Journal of Semiotics:
Critically Re-Thinking "Islamic Dress": Deconstructing Disputed Meanings in Tuareg (Kel Tamajaq) Women's Clothing and Covering
Jan 01, 2009; ... Abstract: This essay examines the connections between dress, religion, and gender, specifically, contextual practices and underlying beliefs concerning dress among women in Tuareg communities of Niger and Mali, West Africa, who speak a Berber language, Tamajaq, predominantly adhere to ...
A Semiotic Analysis of Moses and Pharaoh Narrative in the Qur'an
Jan 01, 2009; ... Abstract: This paper conducts a semiotic analysis of the Moses and Pharaoh narrative in the Qur'an by examining descriptive, narrative and argumentative propositions, enunciation, and discourse.1 The methodology tests the narrative against an analytical model based on theories of ...
Mythic Objects & Some Objects of Myth
Jan 01, 2009; ... Abstract: The views of myth advanced by Eliade, Jung, and Campbell are as flawed as they have been influential. Despite differences, all three concur in granting myth the status of a product of natural signification. The result is an obscurantist representation of myth, which in fact ...
The Living Canvas: Bodies that Serve and Simulate Art
Jan 01, 2009; ... Abstract: This study analyzes artworks by a professional fine-art bodypainter. This artist used his models' bodies as both inspiration and canvas. The bodies/artworks were then photographed and the resulting images were hung as finished pieces in his gallery. Through semiotic analysis of ...
Pragmatic Semeiotic and Knowledge Management: Introducing the Knowledge Profile as a Pragmatic Tool for Knowledge Managing the Meaning of Scientific Concepts
Jan 01, 2009; ... Abstract: The aim of the article is to present and discuss the concept of semeiotic constructivism, which is a pragmaticistic inspired method. Semeiotic constructivism has nothing to do with social constructivism but is a method that can construct meaning of concepts by implanting a ...