Mapping Poetic Bilingualism in Europe: Language Contacts and Cultural Transfers
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Really: syntactics without semiotics?
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Semio-poiesis: on the birth of the semiosphere from the biosphere
... processes of origination, evolution and functioning of the genetic code makes it possible to describe the main mechanisms of these processes. The associations of material phenomena (in this case nucleotides and amino acids) led to the establishment of semiotic links, resulting in mechanisms of information storage and transmission, allowing the creation of stable life forms. The increasing complexity of organization leads to the crystallization of informational and semiotic origins. Semio-poiesis,...
Theatrical interpretation of a literary work from the standpoint of semiotic creativity
... viewed as parts of a unique communicative space. These parts may be specified as the original communicative situation and the ‘derivatives’ characterized by semiotic creativity of their authors — the playwright and the directors. The concept of semiotic resonance is used as a tool that can help to deepen the analysis of the meaning construction in the heterogeneous discourse of drama. Semiotic resonance is understood as the correlations of recurrently used signs accompanied by the amplification ...
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‘The Word, an Ulcer…’: Aleksey Chicherin’s semiotic utopia
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On the Semiotic Model of Image
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The text in the context of the Tartu Semiotic School: problems and prospects
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Semiotic Hybridisation as the Basis of Internet Meme Semantics
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Typographic landscape in urban space: a sociolinguistic approach
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Petroleum as a space for non-translation: Hikmet, Negarestani, Parshchikov
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... explores the phenomenon of online political activism, specifically political blogging, from the perspective of the author's concept of prosumer activity. It focuses on the multimodal texts of websites that convey political messages using a range of semiotic codes. The study aims to demonstrate how the political identity of the addresser is encoded and expressed in the information product. The analysis results in a typology of multimodal texts, classified into three types based on their political ...
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Imposture as a problem of reference: semiotics of the name in Boris Godunov
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The geopoetics of the city K.: the optics of perception
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Cultural code of the city
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The Text and Discourse in the Light of Communicative Meaning Formation
This article analyses differences between the static and dynamic interpretations of the text and discourse. The concept of a communicative action (a semiotic act) is considered as the main distinguishing factor that is crucial for the communicative model of text but is ignored within the language model. The communicative (dynamic) model postulates the following: 1) the text is a sequence of verbal ...
Revisiting Schleiermacher’s On the Different Methods of Translating: On the Foundations of Translation Relativity Theory
... down into a plethora of loosely connected theories of literary, technical, simultaneous, and other types of translation, one can employ an approach where theories differ in axiomatics rather than descriptions. This will produce a family of linguistic, semiotic, and hermeneutic theories. These theories will a) be based on family resemblance, b) aim to describe adequately a certain type of translation, and c) complement each other. Instead of searching for principles universal to all types of translation,...
Conceptualisation of transfer and translation in modern linguistics
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Semiotic Inversions in the Formation of the Political Image in the Media Discourse: the image of Russia in German media
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