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Introduction

The purpose of this site is to provide innovative, responsible and reliable knowledge in a variety of domains relevant to semiotics understood as the multidisciplinary study of information, meaning, communication, interpretation, sign systems and evolution, texts, interactions, organizations, cultural and social transformations, sense-making and all other topics that may emerge from future research, models and theories.

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• The Public Journal of Semiotics (PJOS): A free journal online. Volume II, issue 1 (January 2008) is now online.
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Articles on line:

Bayes, Thomas | Cartosemiotics | Cladistics | Cognitive Linguistics | Conceptual Blending | Cognitive Science | John Dewey’s Semiotic | Evolutionary Archaeology | Fontanille, Jacques | Ideology | Jousse, Marcel | Mimicry | Negation | Niche Construction | Perspective | Performance Studies | Rock Art | Simulation | Social Semiotics | Semiotic Machine | Science Fiction | Zoosemiotics

Forthcoming articles:

Abstraction | Alternate Sign Language | Aposematism | Autoregulatory Signs | Axiom | Body | Brno School | Causality | Cityscape | Clocks | Communication Modeling | Conceptual Graphs | Conversation Analysis | Cybercrime | Dialogue | Discursive Structure | Ecosocial Theory | Electronic Media | Emergent Organization | Ethnomethodology | Geography | Greimas, Algirdas Julien | Guattari, Felix | Hacking | Hypertext | Idiographic Signs | Imitation | Information | Interface | Intersemiosis | Knowledge Management | Literature | Material Culture, Semiotics of | Multimodal Discourse Analysis | Multisemiotic Texts | Neolithic-Chalcolithic Material Culture, Semiotics of | News | Ontological Engineering | Ontology | Orality | Organization | Paris School of Semiotics | Peirce, Charles Sanders | Reading | Self-Other Dynamics | Semiotic Machines | Symbol /System | Textuality | Time | Template Theory | Visual Narrative | Vytgotsky, L. S. | Winner, Thomas | Zilberberg, Claude | Zoomusicology

• The Archaeology of Semiotic Behaviour - (September 22-26, 2009)
• Cognitive Poetics: A Multimodal Approach - (June 10-12, 2009)
• Iconicity in Language and Literature - (June 9-14, 2009)
• An Archaeology of Fun: The Semiotics of Space, Places, and Artifacts of Blackpool and other Sea Resorts - ( June 29 - July 5, 2008)
• Memory, Social Networks, and Language: Probing the Meme Hypothesis II - (May 15 - 17, 2008)
• Imitation, Memory and Cultural Changes: Probing the Meme Hypothesis - (May 4 - 6, 2007)
• Circus And Society - (December 1 - 3, 2006)
• Semiotics And Pragmatics Of Gesture, Conversation And Dialogue - (April 28 - 29, 2006)
• The Archaeology of Gesture - (September 5 - 11, 2005)
• Risk, Trust And Civility - (May 6 - 8, 2005)
• Gestures, Rituals and Memory - (May 6 - 8, 2004)
• Criteria of symbolicity - (September 10 - 14, 2003)
• Multimodality Of Human Communication - (May 3 - 5, 2002)
• Archives

stanford
Medieval Semiotics

First published Fri Dec 19, 2003

This entry intends to give an account of the most important stages of the medieval history of semiotics by providing a general chronological survey of the main sources and theoretical developments of the medieval notion of sign.

• 1. Semiotics: its place in the framework of scholastic disciplines
• 2. The late ancient sources of medieval semiotics
• 2.1 Augustine (354-430)
• 2.2 Boethius (480-528)
• 3. Semiotic beginnings in the 11th and 12th century
• 4. The genesis of an elaborate theory of signs in the second half of 13th century
• 4.1 Ps.-Robert Kilwardby
• 4.2 Roger Bacon (ca. 1214-ca. 1293)
• 5. Grammatica Speculativa and its critics
• 6. Mental concepts as signs
• 7. The sign as a central notion in 14th-century logic
• 8. The concept of sign in scholastic logic of 15th and early 16th-century
• Bibliography
• Other Internet Resources
• Related Entries

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Semiotics

"Semiotics", "semiotic studies", or "semiology" is the study of sign processes ("semiosis"), or signification and communication, signs and symbols, both individually and grouped into sign systems. It includes the study of how meaning is constructed and understood.

General concepts
Biosemiotics | Code | Computational semiotics | Connotation | Decode | Denotation | Encode | Lexical | Modality | Salience | Sign | Sign relation | Sign relational complex | Semiosis | Semiosphere | Literary semiotics | Triadic relation | Umwelt | Value

Methods
Commutation test | Paradigmatic analysis | Syntagmatic analysis

Semioticians
Charles Peirce | Thomas Sebeok | Ferdinand de Saussure | Jakob von Uexküll | Umberto Eco | Louis Hjelmslev | Roman Jakobson | Juri Lotman | Roland Barthes | Marcel Danesi | John Deely | Roberta Kevelson | Eero Tarasti | Kalevi Kull

Related topics
Structuralism | Aestheticization | Semiotics of Ideal Beauty |

One of the attempts to formalize the field was most notably led by the Vienna Circle and presented in their International Encyclopedia of Unified Science, in which the authors agreed on breaking out the field, which they called "semiotic", into three branches:

• Semantics: Relation between signs and the things they refer to, their denotata.
• Syntactics: Relation of signs to each other in formal structures.
• Pragmatics: Relation of signs to their impacts on those who use them. (Also known as General Semantics)

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Translation as a Psycho-Semiotic Phenomenon

Summary:

The article sketches the outlines of a theoretical framework for the analysis of translation of literary texts, viewed as psycho-semiotic phenomenon and based on evaluation of earlier attempts in this direction, and on the results of a psycholinguistic empirical study of translations. Central to this framework is the recent insight that the human cerebral hemisphere functional asymmetry somehow plays a role in structuring the fictional text by its author and in its processing by the interpreter. It is argued that the texts of modernism and post-modernism contain information blocks describing a character’s perception of events in altered states of consciousness. This model helps to explain how a translator’s inappropriate linguistic choice may influence the target language reader’s aesthetic reaction.
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Uni Colorado Denver
Basics of Semiotics

Contents:

• Preface to the First Edition
• Thematic Epigraphs
• Ch-1 Literary Semiotics and the Doctrine of Signs
• Ch-2 Semiotics: Method or Point of View?
• Ch-3 Semiotics: The Subject Matter of Semiotic Inquiry
• Ch-4 Signs: The Medium of Semiosis
• Ch-5 Zoosemiotics and Anthroposemiotics
• A. The Content of Experience
• B. Species-Specific Objective Worlds
• C. Species-Specifically Human Semiosis
• D. Conventionality of Signs in Anthroposemeosis
• E. Criticism as the Exploration of Textuality
• F. A Matrix for All the Sciences
• G. A Model for Discourse as Semiosis
• H. Summation
• Physiosemiosis and Phytosemiosis
• Retrospect: History and Theory in Semiotics
• A. Theory of Semiotics
• B. History of Semiotics
• 1.The Ancient World and Augustine
• 2 The Latin World
• 3 The Iberian Connection
• 4 The Place of John Locke
• 5 Saussure, Peirce, and Poinsot
• 6 Jakob von Uexkull
• References

Topics in Semiotics
Semiotics Resources | Basics of Semiotics | History of Semiotics | Semiotics in the News | Structuralism | Biosemiotics | Mathematics | Computer Semiotics | Social Semiotics | Cultural Semiotics | Organizational | Visual Semiotics | Pictoral Semiotics | Music and Semiotics | Semiotics in Cinema | Semiotics and Media | Multi-media | Textual Semiotics | Abductive Logic | Ecology and Semiotics | Ethics in Semiotics | Semiotics in Education | Language

Seminal Authors
Michael Bakhtin | Roland Barthes | John Deely | Jesper Hoffmeyer | Umberto Eco | Michael Halliday | Louis Hjelmslev | Jack Goody | A.J. Greimas | Roman Jakobson | Julia Kristeva | Jacques Lacan | Claude Levi-Strauss | John Locke | Yuri Lotman | Christian Metz | Charles Morris | Charles Sanders Peirce | Ferdinand de Saussure | Thomas Sebeok | Jakob von Uexküll | Valantine Voloshinov | Lev Vygotsky

Active Writers
Peter Bøgh Andersen | Paul Bouissac | Ron Burnett | Daniel Chandler | Jonathan Culler | Marcel Danesi | Kalevi Kull | Jay Lemke | David Lidov | Mihai Nadin | Winfried Nöth | Susan Petrelli | Burghard Rieger | Brian Rotman | Göran Sonesson | Gary Shank | Eero Tarasti | Paul Thibault | Jaan Valsiner | Adam Vile

Celebrities in Cognitive Science
Writings by and about leading thinkers in cognitive science, and critics and observers of the philosophy of mind.

Charles Babbage | David Chalmers | Michael Cole | Hubert Dreyfus | Howard Gardner | Douglas Hofstadter | Karl Lashley | John McCarthy | Marvin Minsky | Seymore Papert | Roger Schank | Paul Thagard | Francisco Varela | Ludwig Wittgenstein | Fredric Bartlett | Noam Chomsky | Antonio Damasio | Gerald Edelman | Jack Goody | David Hume | George Lakoff | Warren McCulloch | Allen Newell | Ivan Pavlov | John Searle | Sherry Turkle | Valentin Voloshinov | Wilhelm Wundt | Jerome Bruner | Patricia Churchland | Daniel Dennett | Jerry Fodor | Richard Gregory | Phillip Johnson-Laird | Brenda Laurel | Drew McDermott | Donald Norman | Jean Piaget | Herbert Simon | Alan Turing | Lev Vygotsky | John Carroll | William Clancey | John Dewey | Heinz von Foerster | Stevan Harnad | Immanel Kant | A. R. Luria | George Miller | Ulric Neisser | Hilary Putnam | B. F. Skinner | Mark Turner | Terry Winograd

Eco, Umberto (Autor)
A Theory of Semiotics

Eco, Umberto (Autor)
Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language
(Advances in Semiotics)

Noth, Winfried (Autor)
Handbook of Semiotics
(Advances in Semiotics)

Kurzbeschreibung
When the German-language edition of this book was published in 1984, Thomas Sebeok, reviewing it in the Times Literary Supplement, called it "a bravura solo performance by a young German academic who has reduced into the compass of a one-volume manual a vast mass of information about contemporary semiotics. He is obviously abreast of most developments and well organized, has no evident partisan axes to grind, and writes with economy, percision, and lucidity."

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