Genes and proteins are molecular artifacts because they are manufactured by molecular machines that physically stick their subunits together in the order provided by external templates...
Schlagworte: Information, meaning, organic code, organic semiosis, mental semiosis, biosemiotics
02/2006 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterThis paper examines presupposition and implication from a semiotic perspective. It suggests that the conventional approaches to presupposition have a limited focus because of emphasis on truth-value, or the propositional level of the utterance...
Schlagworte: semiotics, Narrative, presupposition, pragmatics, meaning, reference
06/2006 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterPop songs offer a good opportunity for the study of emotions. The unavoidable presence of the voice — an extension of the singer's body that carries both melody and lyrics — sustains a connection between the enunciator's emotions and his/her work...
Schlagworte: emotion, meaning, pop song, semiotics, phoria
02/2007 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterThe paper examines Gilles Deleuze's metaphor of rhizome as a new image of thought...
Schlagworte: apprenticeship, a-signifying semiotics, becoming, diagram, experience, meaning, multiplicity, rhizome
04/2007 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterThe word ‘silhouette,’ we are told, ‘was satirically derived from the name of the parsimonious mid-eighteenth century French finance minister É tienne de Silhouette, whose hobby was the cutting of paper shadow portraits (the phrase à la Silhouette grew to mean ‘on the cheap’)’...
Schlagworte: semiotics, positivism, education, curriculum, meaning, law
04/2007 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterThe current study measures laypeople's uses of
Schlagworte: discourse markers, fillers, you know, like, spontaneous speech, meaning
05/2007 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de GruyterThis article deals with the problem of understanding semiosis and meaning in cognitive systems...
Schlagworte: semiosis, meaning, semiosphere, two-factor accounts, cognitive architectures, symbol emergence
01/2008 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterThis article explores narratives as an interactional resource to manage disagreement...
Schlagworte: Narrative, Interaction, disagreement, accounts, meaning, asymmetry
01/2008 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de GruyterThis paper attempts to arrange a meeting between Ricur and Saussure through their texts...
Schlagworte: hermeneutics, semantics, meaning, time, Context, polysemy
01/2008 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterNeither reality nor language is genuinely objective; rather, both the interpretation of reality and the use of language to create and manipulate reality represent a subjective understanding of both...
Schlagworte: semiotics, language, culture, signs, meaning, film
08/2007 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterThis article explores some major elements in the human capacity to create meaning, or signify. Motivated by a problematic emerging from artificial intelligence and cognitive science research, the article discusses the specific features of natural language that distinguish it from other forms of communication and underlie the difficulties found in designing electronic forms of language processing...
Schlagworte: meaning, Computers, metaphor, emotion, connotation, ambiguity
01/2009 | Semiotica, Walter de Gruyter