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Semiotics

Semiotics
Semiotics frequently is seen as having important anthropological dimensions; for example, Umberto Eco proposes that every cultural phenomenon may be studied as communication.[2] Some semioticians focus on the logical dimensions of the science, however. They examine areas belonging also to the life sciences – such as how organisms make predictions about, and adapt to, their semiotic niche in the world (see semiosis). In general, semiotic theories take signs or sign systems as their object of study: the communication of information in living organisms is covered in biosemiotics (including zoosemiotics). Syntactics is the branch of semiotics that deals with the formal properties of signs and symbols.[3] More precisely, syntactics deals with the "rules that govern how words are combined to form phrases and sentences".[4] Terminology[edit] Ferdinand de Saussure, however, founded his semiotics, which he called semiology, in the social sciences: History[edit] Formulations[edit] Branches[edit] Notes

The Sanguine Sex - Magazine In the middle of a hot New York summer 60 years ago, my mother and her two roommates were invited to spend a weekend at Fire Island. The three girls, recent nursing-school graduates, worked together at Bellevue and were sharing the rent on their first apartment. When a fourth young nurse of their acquaintance overheard them talking about the trip, she asked if she and her young man, a resident at the hospital, could borrow the apartment while they were away. In those days, lovers had to seize on those kinds of opportunities to be alone together. The apartment key was given to the friend, no big deal, and my mother and her roommates left for the beach. They returned late Sunday evening, in a commotion of kicked-off shoes and set-down carryalls and switched-on lights. What happened next, I don’t know. About 15 years before my mother took her weekend trip to Fire Island, she was a little girl living in Brooklyn in a bad situation. I was told to undress and lie in the bathtub, which I did.

International Journal of Applied Semiotics International Journal of Applied Semiotics Edited by François Victor Tochon, Marcel Danesi, and Linda Rogers se·mi·ot·ics: 1. The study of signs and symbols as elements of communicative behavior; the analysis of systems of communication, as language, gestures, or clothing. 2. International Journal of Applied Semiotics (IJAS) constitutes a forum of research and discussion on the applications of semiotic theory to education, clinical practices, learning and other areas of social concern. Each issue of the journal is available either as hard-copy or in PDF format. Signs Daniel Chandler Signs We seem as a species to be driven by a desire to make meanings : above all, we are surely - meaning-makers. Distinctively, we make meanings through our creation and interpretation of 'signs'. The two dominant models of what constitutes a sign are those of the linguist Ferdinand de Saussure and the philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce. Saussure offered a 'dyadic' or two-part model of the sign. a 'signifier' ( ) - the which the sign takes; and the 'signified' ( ) - the it represents. The is the whole that results from the association of the signifier with the signified ( Saussure 1983, 67 ; Saussure 1974, 67 ). If we take a linguistic example, the word 'Open' (when it is invested with meaning by someone who encounters it on a shop doorway) is a consisting of: a : the word ; a : that the shop is open for business. A sign must have both a signifier and a signified. A linguistic sign is not a link between a thing and a name, but between a concept and a sound pattern.

The Name of the Rose The Name of the Rose is the first novel by Italian author Umberto Eco. It is a historical murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in the year 1327, an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory. First published in Italian in 1980 under the title Il nome della rosa, it appeared in English in 1983, translated by William Weaver. Plot summary[edit] The aedificium's labyrinth Franciscan friar William of Baskerville and his novice Adso of Melk travel to a Benedictine monastery in Northern Italy to attend a theological disputation. Characters[edit] Primary characters William of Baskerville—main protagonist, a Franciscan friarAdso of Melk—narrator, Benedictine novice accompanying William At the monastery Outsiders Major themes[edit] Title[edit] Much attention has been paid to the mystery of what the title of the novel refers to. Perhaps this is a deliberate mis-translation. Allusions[edit] To other works[edit]

UC Students Propose Alternative To Tuition Increases hide captionA student prepares to speak in opposition to proposed tuition increases at a University of California Board of Regents meeting in July 2011. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images A student prepares to speak in opposition to proposed tuition increases at a University of California Board of Regents meeting in July 2011. Chris LoCascio, a junior at UC Riverside, feared that there was no end in sight for tuition increases at the University of California. What if, he says, "instead of charging students upfront for their education, students would attend the UC with no upfront costs whatsoever"? Under the Fix UC proposal, the bill would not come due until students graduate and start making money. "Under our proposal, students would pay 5 percent of their income for 20 years" following graduation, Locacio says. Fix UC recently presented the idea to the university regents. Not A New Idea It's an appealing idea to some, but not a brand new one. Erin Mahoney Attractive, Problematic Proposal

Introduction to Semiotics / Signo Follow us on Semiotics is the academic field dedicated to the study of signs. A sign (for example, the word "ship") may be recognized by the presence of its constituent parts, which in semiotic theories based on Saussure's, at least, are the signifier (the container, or the sign's perceptible form: the letters s-h-i-p) and the signified (the meaning or content; the notion conveyed by the signifier: 'a vessel of considerable size for deepwater navigation'). With these concepts, general semiotics allows us to describe any system of signs: texts, images, performances, multimedia productions, traffic signals, fashion, daily life, etc. This text may be reproduced for non-commercial purposes, provided the complete reference is given: Louis Hébert (2006), « Elements of Semiotics », in Louis Hébert (dir.), Signo [online], Rimouski (Quebec), Semiotics is not a single theory. The notion of the sign can be described in several ways.

Syllogism A syllogism (Greek: συλλογισμός – syllogismos – "conclusion," "inference") is a kind of logical argument that applies deductive reasoning to arrive at a conclusion based on two or more propositions that are asserted or assumed to be true. In its earliest form, defined by Aristotle, from the combination of a general statement (the major premise) and a specific statement (the minor premise), a conclusion is deduced. For example, knowing that all men are mortal (major premise) and that Socrates is a man (minor premise), we may validly conclude that Socrates is mortal. Syllogistic arguments are usually represented in a three-line form (without sentence-terminating periods): All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore, Socrates is mortal The word "therefore" is usually either omitted or replaced by the symbol "∴" Early history[edit] From the Middle Ages onwards, categorical syllogism and syllogism were usually used interchangeably. Aristotle[edit] Medieval Scholarship[edit] Boethius John Buridan

Helicopter Parents Hover In The Workplace hide captionAs the millennial generation enters the workforce, employers report that parents are taking an increasingly active role advocating on behalf of their children. Images Bazaar/Getty Images As the millennial generation enters the workforce, employers report that parents are taking an increasingly active role advocating on behalf of their children. So-called helicopter parents first made headlines on college campuses a few years ago, when they began trying to direct everything from their children's course schedules to which roommate they were assigned. With millennial children now in their 20s, more helicopter parents are showing up in the workplace, sometimes even phoning human resources managers to advocate on their child's behalf. Megan Huffnagle, a former human resources manager at a Denver theme park, recalls being shocked several years ago when she received a call from a young job applicant's mother. Those types of interventions can backfire, says Feister.

Journals in Rhetoric and Composition | Council of Writing Program Administrators See also The ACE Journal Abstracts from the Assembly on Computers in English's print journal.Across the Disciplines Lots of resources, including journals and books. The primary emphasis is writing across the curriculum. Academic.Writing and Language and Learning Across the Disciplines merged in 2004 to create this journal. " Across the Disciplines provides CAC researchers, program designers, and teachers interested in using communication assignments and activities in their courses with a venue for scholarly debate about issues of disciplinarity and writing across the curriculum." 2.13.06Assessing Writing Welcomes submissions that address writing assessment issues from diverse perspectives: classroom research, institutional, professional, and administrative.*Basic Writing e- journal An electronic peer-reviewed journal designed to be an electronic forum to broaden conversations about Basic Writing.*CCC Online College Composition and Communication website. Other Sites of Interest

Reader-response criticism Although literary theory has long paid some attention to the reader's role in creating the meaning and experience of a literary work, modern reader-response criticism began in the 1960s and '70s, particularly in America and Germany, in work by Norman Holland, Stanley Fish, Wolfgang Iser, Hans-Robert Jauss, Roland Barthes, and others. Important predecessors were I. A. Types[edit] One can sort reader-response theorists into three groups: those who focus upon the individual reader's experience ("individualists"); those who conduct psychological experiments on a defined set of readers ("experimenters"); and those who assume a fairly uniform response by all readers ("uniformists"). Individualists[edit] In the 1960s, David Bleich began collecting statements by influencing students of their feelings and associations. Michael Steig and Walter Slatoff have, like Bleich, shown that students' highly personal responses can provide the basis for critical analyses in the classroom. In 1961, C.

Säkkijärven polkka Säkkijärven polkka ("the Säkkijärvi polka") is a well-known folk tune from Finland, popular with Finnish accordionists to the extent that it can be called their national anthem. It was especially popularized by Viljo "Vili" Vesterinen (1907–1961). The tune was first recorded in Säkkijärvi (now Kondratyevo in the Leningrad Oblast, Russia), and the words sometimes sung to the tune point out that Säkkijärvi itself might have been lost, but that Finns could at least keep the polka. Military use[edit] During the Continuation War, the Finnish Army discovered that the retreating Soviets had scattered radio-controlled mines throughout the re-captured city of Viipuri. Other[edit] Säkkijärven polkka is also the title of the eponymous film directed by Viljo Salminen (1908–1992) in 1955. External links[edit] A MIDI of Säkkijärven polkka

Postmodernism The term postmodernism has been applied both to the era following modernity, and to a host of movements within that era (mainly in art, music, and literature) that reacted against tendencies in modernism.[5] Postmodernism includes skeptical critical interpretations of culture, literature, art, philosophy, history, linguistics, economics, architecture, fiction, and literary criticism. Postmodernism is often associated with schools of thought such as deconstruction and post-structuralism, as well as philosophers such as Jacques Derrida, Jean Baudrillard, and Frederic Jameson. Origins of term[edit] In 1921 and 1925, postmodernism had been used to describe new forms of art and music. Peter Drucker suggested the transformation into a post modern world happened between 1937 and 1957 (when he was writing). Influential postmodernist philosophers[edit] Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) Michel Foucault (1926–1984) Jean-François Lyotard (1924–1998) Richard Rorty (1931–2007)

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