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1. Sign Systems Studies: Volume > 29 > Issue: 2
Anti Randvür Sotsiosemiootilised perspektiivid kultuuri ja ühiskonna uurimisel. Kokkuvõte
2. Sign Systems Studies: Volume > 29 > Issue: 2
Maria-Kristiina Lotman Antiikvärsi prosoodiaja värsisüsteemid. Kokkuvõte
3. Sign Systems Studies: Volume > 31 > Issue: 1
Dalia Satkauskytė “Poeetide rahva” müüt ja massikirjanduse fenomen Leedus. Kokkuvõte
4. Sign Systems Studies: Volume > 31 > Issue: 2
Kalevi Kull Ladder, tree, web: The ages of biological understanding
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Fundamental turns in biological understanding can be interpreted as replacements of deep models that organise the biological knowledge. Three deep models distinguished here are a holistic ladder model that sees all levels of nature being complete (from Aristotle to the 18th century), a modernist tree model that emphasises progress and evolution (from Enlightenment to the recent times), and a web model that evaluates diversity (since the 20th century). The turn from the tree model to the web model in biology includes (1) a transfer from modern to postmodern approaches, (2) a shift of semiotic threshold to the border of life, and (3) building the semiotic models of living systems, i.e., the rise of biosemiotics.
5. Sign Systems Studies: Volume > 31 > Issue: 2
Peeter Torop Semiosfääriline mõistmine: tekstuaalsus. Kokkuvõte
6. Sign Systems Studies: Volume > 31 > Issue: 2
Marina Aptekman Keele ja reaalsuse probleem vene modernismis: mirotvorchestvo mõiste Aleksei Remizovi raamatus “Rossija v pismenah”. Kokkuvõte
7. Sign Systems Studies: Volume > 31 > Issue: 2
Maria-Kristiina Lotman Rütmisemantikast: formaalsed erinevused karakterite vahel tragöödia Oresteia erinevates versioonides. Kokkuvõte
8. Sign Systems Studies: Volume > 31 > Issue: 2
Valerij Gretchko Vene formalismi esteetiline kontseptsioon: kognitiivne perspektiiv. Kokkuvõte
9. Sign Systems Studies: Volume > 31 > Issue: 2
Мария Гольцман Maalikunsti ja balleti visuaalse tajumise üldistest graafilistest seaduspärasustest: tantsu mnemooniline vorm. Kokkuvõte
10. Sign Systems Studies: Volume > 31 > Issue: 2
Michel Paladian Function of characterization in present tense. Abstract
11. Sign Systems Studies: Volume > 31 > Issue: 2
Maria Goltsman On some graphic regularities of perception in painting and dance: Mnemonic form of dance. Abstract
12. Sign Systems Studies: Volume > 33 > Issue: 1
Stephen Jarosek Soolisuse semiootika: Valikust saab harjumusseos, saab soov, saab vajadus. Kokkuvõte
13. Sign Systems Studies: Volume > 33 > Issue: 1
Marcel Danesi Fibonacci rida ja matemaatilise avastuse loomus: Semiootiline vaade. Kokkuvõte
14. Sign Systems Studies: Volume > 33 > Issue: 2
Oleg B. Zaslavskii Oleg B. Zaslavskii. The little in a non-Euclidean world: On the artistic space in Tom Stoppard's film and play “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead”. Abstract
15. Sign Systems Studies: Volume > 34 > Issue: 1
Олег Борисович Заславский Structural paradoxes of Russian literature and poetics of pseudobroken text. Summary
16. Sign Systems Studies: Volume > 34 > Issue: 1
Andrew Stables Märgiprotsessist sotsiaalpoliitikani: vähetallatud rada. Kokkuvõte
17. Sign Systems Studies: Volume > 35 > Issue: 1/2
Jelena Grigorjeva Пространство-время: мифологическая геометрия. Резюме
18. Sign Systems Studies: Volume > 35 > Issue: 1/2
Andreas Ventsel The construction of the ‘we’-category: Political rhetoric in Soviet Estonia from June 1940 to July 1941
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The article asks, how one of the basic notions of cultural-political identity — we — is constructed in mass media, viz. which kind of semiotic and linguistic facilities are used in constructing a political unity. The approach used in this article is based on Lotman’s semiotic theory of culture and on the analysis of pronouns in political texts, using Emil Benvenist’s theory of deixis. Our case study concentrates on the years 1940–1941 which mark one of the most crucial periods in Estonian nearest history. The source material of the analysis consists of speeches of new political elite in power, all of which were published in major daily newspapers at the time. In outline, first year of soviet power in Estonia can be divided in two periods. First period would be from June 21 to “July elections” in 1940. In political rhetoric, new political elite tried to create a monolithic subject, the unity between themselves and people (people’s will) by emphasizing activity and freedom of self-determination. Nevertheless, starting from “elections”, especially from the period after “accepting” Soviet Republic of Estonia as a full member of Soviet Union, a transition of we-concept from an active subject to mere passive recipient can be detected. From that time on, people’s will was envisaged as entirely determined by marxist-leninist ideology and “the Party”.
19. Sign Systems Studies: Volume > 35 > Issue: 1/2
Paul Bouissac Semiotics as the science of memory
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The notion of culture implies the relative stability of sets of algorithms that become entrenched in human brains as children become socialized, and, to a lesser extent, when immigrants become assimilated into a new society. The semiotics of culture has used the notion of signs and systems of signs to conceptualize this process, which takes for granted memory as a natural affordance of the brain without raising the question of how and why cultural signs impact behaviour in a durable manner. Indeed, under the influence of structuralism, the semiotics of culture has mostly achieved synchronic descriptions. Dynamic models have been proposed to account for the action of signs (e.g., semiosis, dialogism, dialectic) and their resulting cultural changes and cultural diversity. However, these models have remained remarkably abstract, and somewhat disconnected from the actual brain processes, which must be assumed to be involved in the emergence, maintenance, and transformations of cultures. Semiotic terminology has contributed to a systematic representation of cultural objects and processes but thephilosophical origin of its basic concepts has made it difficult to construct a productive interface with the cognitive neurosciences as they have developed and achieved notable advances in the understanding of memory over the last few decades. The purpose of this paper is to suggest that further advances in semiotics will require a shift from philosophical and linguistic notions toward biological and evolutionary models.
20. Sign Systems Studies: Volume > 36 > Issue: 1
Peeter Selg, Andreas Ventsel Towards a semiotic theory of hegemony: Naming as hegemonic operation in Lotman and Laclau
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The article concentrates on the possibilities of bringing into dialogue two different theoretical frameworks for conceptualising social reality and power: those proposed by Ernesto Laclau, one of the leading current theorists of hegemony, and Juri Lotman, a path breaking cultural theorist. We argue that these two models contain several concepts that despite their different verbal expressions play exactly the same functional role in both theories. In this article, however, we put special emphasis on the problem of naming for both theorists. We propose to see naming as one of the central translating strategies in the politico-hegemonic discourse. Our main thesis is that through substituting some central categories of Laclau’s theory with those of Lotman’s, it is possible to develop a model of hegemony that is a better tool for empirical study of power relations in given social formations than the model proposed by Laclau, who in his later works tends more and more to ground it in psychoanalytic ontology.