Semiotics 1981

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Figurative Versus Objective Semiotics: An Epistemological Crossroads....Pages 3-12
Hypersemiosis: Mixed Metaphors as Semiotic Overloading....Pages 13-20
Cognition from a Semiotic Point of View....Pages 21-28
Icon and Symbol: A Reappraisal of the Resemblance Debate....Pages 29-37
Précis of Merleau-Ponty on Metajournalism....Pages 39-48
“Worldliness” and the Analytic Truth....Pages 49-57
The Rheme/Dicent/Argument Distinction....Pages 59-72
The Sign Status of Specular Reflections....Pages 73-81
Semiotic Phenomenology and Peirce....Pages 83-93
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Contexts for Language Learning: Semiotic Perspectives....Pages 97-106
The Semiotic Function of Audience....Pages 107-116
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Exophoric Reference as an Interactiove Resource....Pages 119-128
Searching for a Word as an Interactive Activity....Pages 129-137
Sly Moves: A Semiotic Analysis of Movement in Marshallese Culture....Pages 139-151
The Study of Gesture: Some Remarks on its History....Pages 153-164
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Francis Lieber and the Semiotics of Law and Politics....Pages 167-177
The Logic of History as a Semiotic Process of Question and Answer in the Thought of R. G. Collingwood....Pages 179-189
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The Semiotic Paradigm and Language Change....Pages 193-200
What’s in a Word?....Pages 201-207
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Functions of the Index in Narrative: An Outline....Pages 211-221
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Symbiosis and Dichotomy in the Names of Anna Axmatova....Pages 223-229
Representation and Subjectivity in Modern Literature....Pages 231-237
Aesthetic Semiosis of the Visual Object....Pages 239-247
Indexicality in Esthetic Signs and the Art of Dante Gabriel Rossetti....Pages 249-261
Subjects and Objects: Quick Notes on the State of Art History....Pages 263-272
Kitsch: A Semiotic Approach....Pages 273-279
Talent and Technique in Theatre: A Semiotics of Performing....Pages 281-291
The Semiotics of Godot Compared with those of the Russian Icon....Pages 293-299
The Teller and the Tale: Sources of Credibility in the Short Story....Pages 301-306
The Guinea Pigs by Ludvík Vaculík: Interrelation of Areas of Reference....Pages 307-315
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Why Think About a Cognitive Psychosemiotic Theory?....Pages 319-324
The Tell-the-Tale Detail....Pages 325-336
The Semiotic Crisis in Contemporary Hospitals....Pages 337-343
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Who Apes English?....Pages 347-357
Culture and Mind in Peircean Semiotics: One Aspect....Pages 359-367
Sociology and Semiotics: Two Sciences of the Human....Pages 369-376
Semiotic Theory and Language Learning....Pages 377-384
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Architectural Semiotic Analysis: A Demonstration....Pages 387-398
“Musement on the Whole”…An Attitude Toward Space....Pages 399-414
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Mathematics as a Semiotic Factor in the Thought of C. S. Peirce....Pages 417-422
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An Outline of the Foundations of Modern Semiotic: Charles Peirce and Charles Morris....Pages 423-436
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A Comparative Study of Selected Semiotic Elements of Different Branches of Fortune-Telling....Pages 439-447
Icon as Index: A Theory of Middle Byzantine Imagery....Pages 449-457
A Critique of Lévi-Strauss’ Theory of Myth and the Elements of a Semiotic Alternative....Pages 459-472
The Civilization of Illiteracy....Pages 473-481
Myth and Symbol in Vico and the ‘Romantik’: Some Remarks....Pages 483-493
Social Symbols and Cultural Identity....Pages 495-502
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Matrilineal Background of Genealogies in Genesis....Pages 505-519
Judges 11:12–28: Constructive and Deconstructive Analysis....Pages 521-528
Story Structure and Social Structure in Genesis: Circles and Cycles....Pages 529-543
Back Matter....Pages 545-555