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volume 1, 1998 – V. V. Ivanov, J. M. Lotman, A. M. Pjatigorski, V. N. Toporov, B. A. Uspenskij — Theses on the Semiotic Study of Cultures.
volume 2, 1999 – J. Levchenko (ed.) — Conceptual Dictionary of the Tartu-Moscow Semiotic School.
volume 3, 2002 – C. Emmeche, K. Kull, F. Stjernfelt — Reading Hoffmeyer, Rethinking Biology.
volume 4, 2005 – J. Deely — Basics of Semiotics. 4th ed.
volume 5, 2006 – M. Grishakova — The Models of Space, Time and Vision in V. Nabokov's Fiction: Narrative Strategies and Cultural Frames.
volume 6, 2007 – P. Lepik — Universaalidest Juri Lotmani semiootika kontekstis.
volume 7, 2008 – P. Lepik — Universals in the Context of Juri Lotman's Semiotics.
volume 8, 2008 – C. N. El-Hani, J. Queiroz, C. Emmeche — Genes, Information, and Semiosis.
volume 9, 2010 – A. Randviir — Ruumisemiootika: tähendusliku maailma kaardistamine - Semiotics of space: mapping the meaningful world
volume 10, 2012 – D. Favareau, P. Cobley, K. Kull (eds.) — More Developed Sign: Interpreting the Work of Jesper Hoffmeyer
volume 11, 2012 – S. Rattasepp, T. Bennett (eds.) — Gatherings in Biosemiotics
volume 12, 2013 – Floyd Merrell — Meaning making: it's what we do; it's who we are
volume 13, 2013 – S. Salupere, P. Torop, K. Kull (eds.) — Beginnings of the semiotics of culture
volume 14, 2014 – Marcel Danesi, Mariana Bockarova — Mathematics as a Modeling System
volume 15, 2015 - Dinda Gorlée - From Translation to Transduction: The Glassy Essence of Intersemiosis
volume 16, 2016 - Claudio Julio Rodriguez Higuera, Tyler James Bennett (eds.) - Concepts for semiotics
volume 17, 2016 - Douglas Robinson - Semiotranslating Peirce
volume 18, 2016 - Maran, Timo; Tųnnessen, Morten; Armstrong Oma, Kristin; Kiiroja, Laura; Magnus, Riin; Mäekivi, Nelly; Rattasepp, Silver; Thibault, Paul; Tüür, Kadri (eds.) - Animal Umwelten in a Changing World. Zoosemiotic Perspectives.
volume 19, 2018 - Favareau, Donald (Editor) - Co-operative Engagements in Intertwined Semiosis: Essays in Honour of Charles Goodwin.
volume 20, 2020. Lackova, Ludmila; Rodriguez Higuera, Claudio J.; Kull, Kalevi (eds.) 2020. Gatherings in Biosemiotics XX.
Acknowledgements 9 Introduction 11 Models and metaphors 19 Possible worlds and modeling systems 28 Time, space, and point of view as constitutive elements of the textual world 40 Nabokov as a writer and a scientist: "natural" and "artificial" patterns 51 I. The Models of Time 72 The specious present: time as a "hollow" 76 The spiral or the circle: Mary 80 1. Involution and metamorphosis 96 2. The triple dream 99 3. Nietzsche's circle of the eternal return 101 4. Time and double vision in Proust and Nabokov 105 5. Bergson's spiral of memory 108 Tempus reversus 112 Time and eternity: aevum 127 II. The Model of the Observer 134 The observer and the point of view 141 Vision and word: the seat of a semiotic conflict 156 1. H. James: The Turn of the Screw 163 2. V. Nabokov: The Eye 169 3. A. Hitchcock: Rear Window 173 Frame, motion and the observer 177 III. The Models of Vision 187 Automatism and disturbed vision 187 Inhibition and artistic failure 198 Camera obscura 204 Nabokov's visual devices 209 IV. The Doubles and Mirrors 219 V. Multidimensional Worlds 231 The outside and the inside 231 Bend Sinister as a multilayer dream 250 The worlds of seduction: Lolita 273 Conclusion 282 Bibliography 287 Index
In implementing the criteria of Porphyrios's eternally durable classification, it could be claimed that the author, together with Juri Lotman, treat universals in the spirit of conceptualism. In other words it means that a Person in this conception is an object to whom a collection of formal characteristics is attributed that is common to all single individuals, which expresses the understanding of any person whatsoever. A Person is identical to this collection.
And so this book concentrates on describing the universal characteristics of the intellect, as the apriority mechanism that stores, organizes and transmits information. Of these characteristics, five universal algorithms (communicative functions) of the intellect, which are textually realized as mythological, magical, religious, antithetic and metaphorical code-signals, are examined more closely.
The constructive components of the concept of code signal are (1) the phenomenological concept of the intellect; (2) the category of code-text; (3) the category of ritual, and (4) treating text as a signal. Observing intellect and text on the same level proceeds from Lotman's postulate according to which intellect, text and culture are 'vertically isomorphic' on the basis of four characteristics, which are the linguistic heterogeneity of all three, the existence of memory, the capacity for the self-reproduction of meanings, and the functioning of a selection block that regulates communication.
Mythological, magical, and other relevant code signals are speech phenomena, and therefore it is not magic, religion, etc that are analyzed in this book but magicality, religiosity, metaphoricality, etc as the base structures of semiosis and communication. They are base structures due to their prominent role in the reproductive processes of the intellect.
All five intellectual algorithms, as code signals, are a sign-creating system, where ritual and rituality are the ancient textual equivalents. All code signals, as becomes apparent, are explicitly exhibited in ritual, and form a system of communicative functions. It is most important here to note that it was delving into the structure of ritual in particular that permitted the author to answer the question: what guarantees the durability of code signals as the constructive elements of culture and (in a narrower sense), of representation and communication.
The author's conception was initially inspired by Juri Lotman?s three lectures, which have been published for the first time as an appendix to this book.
Abstract
By the 1950s, when biologists who studied genes had not yet perceived them as informational structures, information theory was an engineering tool for designing telecommunication channels with no place for a concept of signification, and semiotics dealt exclusively with cultural symbol systems, not investigating the basic forms of semiosis, or sign action in living nature. Today – after progress in molecular biology, biological theory and a naturalist and universalist turn in general semiotics – researchers are beginning to realize that genes, information and semiosis can no longer be understood in isolation.
This insight derives in part from a new crossdisciplinary field: Biosemiotics is a growing field that investigates semiotic processes in the living realm, addressing meaning, signification, communication, and habit formation in living systems, as well as the physicochemical conditions for sign action and interpretation. Areas such as molecular biology, cognitive ethology, cognitive science, robotics, and neurobiology deal with information processes at various levels and, thus, provide knowledge about biosemiosis, or sign action in living systems. Contemporary biosemiotics is working to integrate these findings, so as to build a richer foundation for biology.
This essay contributes to clarify the “information talk” in genetics, molecular and systems biology by building a specific conceptual model of basic life processes at the molecular level, such as protein synthesis. This model is consistent with the best scientific understanding and yet non-reductionist, integrating notions of signs, molecules, and natural interpretation in the tradition of the general semiotics, or the sign theory of Charles Sanders Peirce. It offers a new solution to how to understand and define “gene” in biology, and it develops a profound proposal for another concept of information that does not reduce information to digital bits of computation, but sees it as closely related to natural forms and processes, as the ones known from living organisms.
Readers not familiar with molecular biology or semiotics are provided with brief introductions to basic concepts. Semiotic scholars and life scientists will be shaken in their basic beliefs in the anthropic nature of signs and the substantial nature of genes. No scientific revolutions are offered, simply a set of deeper insights into an exciting, new interdisciplinary perspective upon life and signs.
Format: Paperpack, 356 pages, ill., Pub. Year: 2010 Publisher: Tartu University Press ISBN-10: 9949193982 ISBN-13: 9789949193981
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Format: Paperback / softback, 336 pages Collection: Tartu Semiotics Library Pub. Date: 2012 Publisher: Tartu University Press ISBN-10: 994919945X ISBN-13: 9789949199457
For more than 40 years, Jesper Hoffmeyer has been committed to the idea of developing “a semiotics of nature, or biosemiotics as he chose to call this effort, that could intelligibly explain how all the phenomena of inherent meaning and signification in living nature – from the lowest level of sign processes in unicellular organisms to the cognitive and social behavior of animals – can emerge from a universe that was not so organized and meaningful from the very beginning” (Emmeche et al. 2002: 41).
In this volume, over 80 world-class scholars from more than 20 countries select a short quotation taken from any of Jesper Hoffmeyer’s texts and provide their scholarly commentary upon that passage – whether in the form of an analytical explication, a critical disagreement or a conceptual extension – that as they feel asks the questions that need to be asked, proposes the ideas that need to be proposed, or that draws out the implications that need to be so explicitly drawn out, germane to the claims of the selected passage.
At once a celebration and a serious academic development of the work of Jesper Hoffmeyer, this landmark volume marks the occasion of his 70th birthday on February 21, 2012.
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Meaning Making: It's what we do; it's who we are is a book about fundamental questions of contemporary semiotics, however written in the style accessible to a wide range of readers.Meaning Making sheds light on the following assumptions, largely following C. S. Peirce: (1) pre-linguistic sign modes of feeling, sensing and experiencing entail consciousnessbecoming; (2) consciousness-becoming, culminating in linguistic signs, is always in the process of becoming something other than what it was becoming; and (3) linguistic signs are never complete and consistent, for they continuously draw from pre-linguistic semiotic processes. These processes involve signs incessantly becoming other signs in interdependent, interactive interrelatedness. The three terms carry the implication that all signs are complementarily coalescent; they are always in the process of merging with one another. Illustration of the complementary coalescent processual flow of signs involves splitsecond decision-making - examples are chiefly from baseball and soccer - when one has no time consciously to think and then act on one's thinking. Decisions must be made in the blink of an eye, and they must be spontaneously acted on. This rapid-fire semiotic transition from pre-linguistic feelingbecoming to interpreting-becoming emphasizes ongoing process, rather than relatively fixed product. Process is the principle key qualifying Peirce's concept of semiosis.
floyd merrell is an eminent contemporary American semiotician, a long-time Professor of Semiotics and Spanish Literature in Purdue University. His numerous books include Signs Becoming Signs: Our Perfusive, Pervasive Universe (1991), Unthinking Thinking: Jorge Luis Borges, Mathematics, and the 'New Physics' (1991), Semiosis in the Postmodern Age (1995), Peirce's Semiotics Now: A Primer (1995), Signs Grow: Semiosis and Life Processes (1996), Peirce, Signs, and Meaning (1997), Tasking Textuality (2000), Living Learning, Learning Living: Signs, East and West (2002), Sensing Corporeally: Toward a Posthuman Understanding (2003), Processing Cultural Meaning (2007), Entangling Forms: Within Semiosic Processes (2010).
The 2013 Tartu Semiotics Summer School (the 8th in the general sequence) takes place again at Kääriku and is dedicated to the development of semiotics of culture, under the title "Autocommunication in Semiotic Systems: 40 years after the Theses on the Semiotic Study of Culture". On this occasion, we republish here (1) the introduction to the 4th Summer School, written by J. Lotman, also in translation into English and Estonian, (2) the Theses in three languages (these were also published in vol. 1 of Tartu Semiotics Library, in 1998; here the translations are slightly corrected), and (3) the Postscriptum to theses (in English, translated from Italian, since we could not establish the Russian original of this text). The background and the further role of these texts is described in the accompanying article by Peeter Torop and Silvi Salupere.
Introduction. On the beginnings of the semiotics of culture in the light of the Theses of the Tartu-Moscow School. Silvi Salupere, Peeter Torop 13I Proposals, 1970 39 Proposals for the programme of the 4th Summer school on secondary modelling systems. Juri Lotman 41II Theses, 1973 51 Theses on the semiotic study of cultures (as applied to Slavic texts).Juri M. Lotman, Vjacheslav V. Ivanov, Aleksandr M. Pjatigorskij, Vladimir N. Toporov, Boris A. Uspenskij 53III Postscriptum to Theses, 1979 127 Heterogeneity and homogeneity of cultures: Postscriptum to the collective theses. Juri Lotman, Boris Uspenskij 129 Index 133
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"Serendipity, inference, and abduction present opportunities for solutions to the puzzles appealing to humans, mathematicians included. When successful, these intuitive semiosic leaps find pattern, even when the pattern may not be explained beyond the frame of the puzzle. In foregrounding abduction, Danesi and Bockarova refresh ancient queries about any distinctions between discovery and invention. The abductive process cannot be taught in a prescriptive fashion, as it resists reduction to the simpler linear logics of our ordinary pedagogies. The authors’ semiotic perspective integrates recognized patterns of conceptual learning styles with the pervasive patterns in both living and inert realms, revealed through Fibonacci, Zipf, and fractals, and the cognitive power in diagrams, schemes, and graphs. The authors consider how it is that modeling seems to be tied to symbolism, metaphor, and optical processing. This volume will refresh practitioners from both pure and applied realms of mathematics, as well as other semioticians, pedagogues, and scholars generally." -- Myrdene Anderson Marcel Danesi is professor of semiotics and linguistic anthropology at the University of Toronto and the Director of the Program in Semiotics and Communication Theory at Victoria College of the same university. He is also co-director of the Cognitive Science Network of the Fields Institute for Research in the Mathematical Sciences at the University of Toronto and Editor-in-Chief of “Semiotica”. Mariana Bockarova holds a master’s degree from Harvard University and is currently completing her PhD at the University of Toronto. She has published in the fields of semiotics and the cognitive science of mathematics and is developing a model of expressive writing that blends ideas from psychology, applied linguistics, and semiotics, in order to understand the relation between discourse and emotions.
Tartu Semiotics Library
volume 15
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Publisher: Tartu University Press
The fascinating story of the intersemiotic growth of translation into the whirlpool of excitement in transduction. The conflict between the simultaneous attractions of language-based translation and not-only-language-based transductions in different arts shows the way that the relatively coded phenomenon of translation can transfigure into Peirce’s free and uncoded activity of transduction. The real question of intersemiosis is still unanswered. Imagine the delicious surprises at the heart of the narrative examples: Henry Thoreau’s sympathy with American and Indian ecology of Walden, Edvard Grieg’s musical operetta Peer Gynt based on Henrik Ibsen’s poetic script, and Salvador Dalí’s sculptural transfiguration of Venus of Milo with his Venus with Drawers. Dinda L. Gorlée is a semiotician and multilingual translation theoretician, with interests in the philosophy of language, comparative law, and cultural theory. With a dual Ph.D. in semiotics and translation theory from the University of Amsterdam, she has worked academically in a decade of countries around the world. Her last academic function was a visiting professorate at the University of Helsinki. Gorlée is widely published internationally and is writing a book about Wittgenstein as semiotician.
volume 16
Claudio Julio Rodriguez Higuera, Tyler James Bennett (editors)
Concepts for semiotics
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Collection: Tartu Semiotics Library Pub. Date: 2016
Accountability, anticipation, autocommunication, censor - ship, drawing, droodle, ground, innovation, landscape, library, literary history, metatext, minimal model, mytheme, normalization, ostension, self-description. These are the concepts treated in this collection of articles, opening a win - dow into the developing trends within semiotics. Concepts for Semiotics presents a number of research possibilities with such disparate topics as literature, education and bio - semiotics, centered on the theoretical principles of the Tartu school of semiotics. The aim of this publication, organized by Kalevi Kull and Mihhail Lotman, is to present the evergrowing research perspectives of those engaged directly with semiotics as graduate students in Estonia.
volume 17
Douglas Robinson
Semiotranslating Peirce
„Just as a long discussion with Doug Robinson is the shortest way toward conceptualizing innovative approaches in Translation Studies, so reading a new book of his is a mindexpanding experience. This definitely holds true for this book, in which he undertakes an impressive attempt to retheorize semiotranslation. One of its many intellectual merits is that he fundamentally questions our habitualized, sometimes idealized, assumptions. The author himself mentions that he loves the periphery. But some of his ideas are so central to the phenomenon of translation that they make us feel the need for a humble Semiotic Turn in Translation Studies.“ Luc van Doorslaer Douglas Robinson, who has been translating from Finnish to English since 1975, is author of numerous works on translation, including The Translator’s Turn, Translation and Taboo, Who Translates?, Translation and the Problem of Sway, Schleiermacher’s Icoses, The Dao of Translation, and Critical Translation Studies. He is currently Chair Professor of English at Hong Kong Baptist University.
volume 18
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Animal Umwelten in a Changing World. Zoosemiotic Perspectives
Electronic version available at http://lepo.it.da.ut.ee/~timo_m/publikatsioonid/TSL18_Animal_umwelten_s.pdf
“Animal Umwelten in a Changing World. Zoosemiotic Perspectives” raises semiotic questions of human-animal relations: what is the semiotic character of different species, how humans endow animals with meaning, and how animal sign exchange and communication has coped with environmental change. The book takes a zoosemiotic approach and considers different species as being integrated with the environment via their specific umwelt or subjective perceptual world. The authors elaborate J. v. Uexküll’s concept of umwelt to make it applicable for analyzing complex and dynamical interactions between animals, humans, environment and culture. The opening chapters of the book present a framework for philosophical, historical, epistemological and methodological aspects of zoosemiotic research. These initial considerations are followed by specific case studies: on human–animal interactions in zoological gardens, communication in the teams of visually disabled persons and guiding dogs, semiotics of the animal condition in philosophy, historical changes in the role of animals in human households, the semiotics of predation, cultural perception of novel species, and other topics. The authors belong to the research group in zoosemiotics and human–animal relations based in the Department of Semiotics at the University of Tartu in Estonia, and in the University of Stavanger in Norway.
Favareau, Donald (Editor)
Co-operative Engagements in Intertwined Semiosis: Essays in Honour of Charles Goodwin
University of Tartu Press, 2018
Available at http://www.tyk.ee/semiotics/00000012547
Volume 20.
Lackova, Ludmila; Rodriguez Higuera, Claudio J.; Kull, Kalevi (eds.) 2020. Gatherings in Biosemiotics XX.
Tartu: University of Tartu Press, 333 pp.
Biosemiotics is the study of semiosis in the biological realm. Or, as it was written in the introduction to the 17th Gatherings in Biosemiotics in Lausanne, “biosemiotics is [...] the study of meaning-making and its consequences in living systems, and much of its focus is on investigating and understanding pre-linguistic sign processes in both humans and other organisms”. Biology, on the one hand, has an important and impressive history of studying the systematicity of nature, as it is exhibited in the analyses of the genetic, physiological and morphogenetic processes of living systems. Yet biology, at the same time, must also certainly recognize that it is likewise the study of the systematicity of freedom, in as much as its object of study is the phenomenon of life itself. And so biology, understood as biosemiotics, studies life’s capacity for aboutness, for establishing mediated and arbitrary relationships that result in the creation of novelty, for making choices, and for the ongoing exploration of possibility. The world meetings on biosemiotics - Gatherings in Biosemiotics - have been taking place annually since 2001. The first twelve years of these conferences was described in a volume of 2012, while the current volume covers the meetings from 2012 to 2020. In addition to the accounts and programs of these events, and including over sixty contributions to the twentieth meeting, the current volume includes review articles, evaluating the work done thus far, and predicting future developments. The history and philosophy of Czech biosemiotics, in particular, receives a detailed account, and many other ideas in biosemiotics are also discussed in this book.
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