The American Journal of Semiotics back issues from July 2001:
THE CIVIL WAR DID NOT TAKE PLACE: Presidential Address 30 September 2000
Jul 01, 2001; ... Civil War? "The American Civil War" did not take place. Now before you group me with the holocaust deniers and the flat earth crowd, I do not deny events such as the Battle of Gettysburg or the Emancipation Proclamation occurred in the real world. What I do deny, and emphatically so, is ...
SEMIOSIC UNDERTOWS: The Mexican Scene as Signs of Our Times
Jul 01, 2001; ... How shifty, that process they call semiosisl It whisks us along while patronizingly allowing us the deluded notion we know what it's about. Then, without any warning signs we find ourselves tumbling down a cataract, our flimsy craft capsizes, and perhaps we survive the unexpected event more by ...
JAPANESE CLOCKS: Semiotic Evidence of the Perspectival Mutation
Jul 01, 2001; ... (ProQuest Information and Learning: ... denotes formulae omitted.) The Weltanschauung of an individual and of an age, that is, the perception of life and concept of things preferred, is essentially a view of time. J. T. Fraser (1966) The first grand discovery was ...
CONTESTED REPRESENTATIONS: Signification in the Built Environment
Jul 01, 2001; ... l. Semiosis and Spatial Restructuring Cultural aspects of spatial restructuring as well as discussions of the impact of "postmodern" urban structures and architecture are given more and more attention in research about local, regional and global transformations (Appleyard 1979; Bianchini ...
AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF GENDER AND A THEORY OF COMMUNICATION
Jul 01, 2001; ... 1. Introduction: The Communicative Body To lose oneself into nothingness .... It is this dimension of being, of be-ing-before-the-void, that best describes Georges Bataille's concept of communication-a radical concept of communication as eros, death, sensuality, and transgression. It is a ...
TOWARDS A SEMIOTICS OF THE CULTURAL OTHER
Jul 01, 2001; ... 1. Global and Intercultural Communication According to Paul Bouissac's description of the goals of the conference on Translation and Globalization,1 "the process of 'globalization' presupposes the progressive expansion of a set of common codes among the populations of the world". As ...
SEMIOTIC FETISHISM IN INTERCULTURAL COMUNICATION
Jul 01, 2001; ... 1. The Cultural Neologism The study of new words and expressions that come into being as the result of intercultural contact is quite popular in linguistics and translation theory (Ivir 1978; Phillipson 1992). As a rule, these new phenomena are labeled, sometimes interchangeably, ...
TOWARD A THEORY OF IMBRICATION AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION
Jul 01, 2001; ... 1. Introduction Much current thinking on the theory of communicative action -notably in its role as a basis for, and preliminary to, systems modeling (Winograd and Flores 1986; Medina-More, Winograd, Flores and Flores 1992; Dietz 1994; Steuten 1998)-takes Austin's (1962) and Searle's ...
SPACE SPEAKS: The Siting and Structure of a State Library
Jul 01, 2001; ... Space is an important medium for containing messages in society and culture. In this article, I examine how the siting of a State library communicates subtle messages of its own, as well as reinforcing meanings generated by institutions it represents, i.e., public libraries in a State. The ...
THE SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS OF MEDIA MYTH: A Proposal for an Applied Methodology
Jul 01, 2001; ... 1. Confronting the Ideology of Myth in Popular Culture The purpose of my analysis is to articulate and demonstrate an elegant, logical semiotic methodology applied to the analysis of cultural myth. Principally emanating from the work of Roland Barthes, this method assimilates ideas from ...
PRACTICAL COMMUNICATION, SCIENCE, AND THE CULTURAL VOID OF MACIC
Jul 01, 2001; ... 1. Introduction The investigation of human sign systems has had a great effect on how we analyze cultural phenomena. Lotman (1990: 5) states in his volume Universe of the Mind " ...everything a semiotic researcher turns his/her attention to becomes semioticized in his hands". This thesis ...
HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION: Sign and Its Application in the Digital Representation and Code Conversion in Computers1
Jul 01, 2001; ... Rogers characterizes the development of human society as consisting of three stages: agricultural, industrial, and information society (1995: 10). As a model of the information society, we may cite the United States' development as mainly depending on universities that play the same role as ...
Universe of Mind: A Semiotic Theory of Culture
Jul 01, 2001; ... Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman Universe of Mind: A Semiotic Theory of Culture Indiana University Press, 2000 ISBN 025321405X Humanity in Its Cultural Space Research into mind, language and culture always fascinates the scientists and attracts much attention. Universe of the Mind by ...
Psychosemiotics
Jul 01, 2001; ... Howard A. Smith Psychosemiotics Semiotics and the Human Sciences, Vol. 20 Peter Lang Publishers, 2001. ISBN 0-8204-5236-X Choosing to make "psychosemiotics" the title of his book, Howard A. Smith notes that "human semiosis is essentially psychological in nature" (p. 1 ), and quotes a ...
COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY AND INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION: A Report on Pedagogy
Jul 01, 2001; ... Recent expansion of telecommunication technologies, especially the Internet, is rapidly diminishing the distance between cultures. Intercultural communication instructors now have an opportunity to use the new media technologies as innovative and interactive semiotic teaching tools (Berge and ...
A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF SAUSSURE'S LINGUISTIC SIGN
Jul 01, 2001; ... 1. Introduction Ferdinand de Saussure was a pioneer in the modem study of language. His theory, particularly his model of the linguistic sign, provides a coherent, if not fully convincing, description of the mechanism of language, outlining the role of the entire linguistic system in ...
William Pencak: A Sign
Jul 01, 2001; ... William Pencak: A Sign Signing Up History: A Review of William Pencak's Work As historian Raphael Samuel notes, since the 1960s semiotics has influenced much of the most exciting historical work. This influence, however, has been indirect, coming through such currents as cultural ...