Semiotics in Switzerland

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents IX
4. Volume 1
5. I. Plenary Addresses
6. Joining different worlds; symbols and the quest for unity 3
7. From the fantasia through metaphor to knowledge: A Vichian perspective of conceptualization 17
8. Some remarks on perfect languages 45
9. Fundamentals of diachronic linguistics: Semiotic implications 57
10. "Symbols grow" II 87
11. Sémiotique et herméneutique: Vers une complémentarité possible 95
12. Global semiotics 105
13. II. Semiotics Around the World
14. Semiotics in Romania: Political implications 133
15. Sémiotique au Chili d'aujourd'hui: histoire, ruptures et champ théorique 137
16. Semiotics in Spain 141
17. The semiosis of cognition 145
18. Sémiotiques belges 149
19. Semiotics in Germany 153
20. Semiotics in Greece 157
21. Semiotics in Switzerland 161
22. Semiotics in the Nordic countries 165
23. Ill. Linguistics
24. Linguistics and the language of schizophrenics 171
25. Is nature a language? J. W. Goethe on scientific knowledge 175
26. The semiotics of catastrophe in linguistic change 179
27. Johann Gottfried Herder's conception of the origin of language 183
28. The main statements of theories as determined by a semiotic method 187
29. Emotion families 191
30. The relationship between texts and their location 195
31. Some consonant strategies in spoken discourse 199
32. Les supports lexico-syntaxiques du non-fini en français et en arabe 203
33. Zero-derivation or syntagmatic derivation 207
34. La figuralité: Son actualité en linguistique et en sémiotique 211
35. Perception of proverbs and familiarity with them. Figurativeness as one of the most powerful markers of proverbiality 215
36. Sauron's Newspeak: Black Speech, Quenya, and the nature of mind 219
37. The possible worlds of the imaginary 223
38. Digital and nondigital information in genetic language 227
39. Creating signs, building bridges 231
40. Lexical and phonetic semiotic in lyrics: Agnes Miegel's Herbst 235
41. Expression as expression - as 239
42. Two kinds of semantics: Six intersemiotic theses 243
43. Situational effects on the quantification of frequency words 247
44. Cooperative organization of Japanese conversation 251
45. Some comments on semiotics of graphic communication 255
46. Cognitive metaphor and critical rhetoric 259
47. Cross-cultural pragmatics in Western academic discursive practice 263
48. Textsemantics: A bridge between linguistics and literary theory 267
49. The social crystallization of language. Coercive traits of the social characterization in a Saussurean textus receptus tradition 271
50. IV. Culture
51. Material culture in the mirror of archival sources 277
52. Sacrality, myth, objects: Techniques of fabrication and semiotical, anthropological interpretation of carpets and jewels from Pakistan 281
53. American "Comics": A semiolinguistic analysis 283
54. Waco Wackos! The emergence of American social consciousness in the jokes told surrounding the events at Waco, Texas 285
55. For a transcultural theory of iconic creation 287
56. "Heimat" and "mi tierra". Towards a semiotic theory of local identities from an intercultural perspective 291
57. Verbal and visual intersemiosis in aesthetical experiments—the case of contemporary Brazilian culture 295
58. The meaning of life: Extensional semantics in the game go 299
59. On cultural stereotypes: A Peircean view 303
60. African-American aesthetic of dress: Subcultural meaning and significance 307
61. Humour and verisimilitude 311
62. The sign behind the gate 315
63. Noname Culture 319
64. Destin et histoire 323
65. Fashion and body images in youth cultures. The semiotics of Skins, Punks, New Wave and the Preppie 327
66. Arthur Bispo do Rosario: The vertigo art 331
67. The skin of time — a semiotic approach to death 335
68. Fetishes, props, and prostheses-On the ecology of material objects 339
69. Semiotic ethnocriticism: Tawada's Das Fremde aus der Dose 343
70. Verbal means as signs of human needs in the light of an axiosemiotic theory of culture 347
71. "Glory of Glories . . . She Wears a Hat" Dress, the immigrant and social equality in America 351
72. A triple semiosis for the representation of stone tools in archaeology 355
73. V. Literature: Theory, Text, Narrative, Poetics
74. The reflected voices: Calvino's "If on a winter's night a traveler" 361
75. Literary text semiotics applied to plays by Garcia Lorca 365
76. Landscape, indirection, and feminine subjectivity in Madame Bovary 369
77. Metaphor as autobiography 373
78. Que dit le littéraire au théorique ? 377
79. The value of the notion of contract to literary interpretation: Greimas, Propp, and West's Miss Lonefyhearts 381
80. Le caractère fictionnel de la poésie lyrique 385
81. The specific regime of verisimilitude in the thriller 389
82. Le dialogisme de Bakhtine et la sémiotique de Peirce 393
83. Iconic memory and intersemiotical procedures in traditional oral literatures 397
84. The body of the postmodernist narrator 401
85. Narrative time and the reader 405
86. Eléments pour une sémiotique du discours poétique 409
87. Maxims of Malice 413
88. Narrative as a sequence of motivated signs 417
89. Vision as meaning: Visual iconicity of Basho's haiku 421
90. Nothing in the world is single: Metaphorical network in Shelley's "Love's Philosophy" 425
91. "Look Ma, the giraffe's on fire!" 429
92. The written and the spoken poem: Generic practices in their social context 433
93. On the epistemology of addiction: The case of Josef K. 437
94. The reality of crisis in Discépolo's Daily Losses 441
95. Intertextuality and meaning construction in literary texts: A semiotic analysis 445
96. Text construction and world construction in literary narratives 449
97. Black and white and read all over: The semiotics of difference and chiaroscuro in Le Guin's Left hand of darkness 453
98. The textual space in the novel 457
99. The uniqueness of ontological hermeneutics among contemporary semiotic theories of interpretation 461
100. The semiotics of Paul Valéry 465
101. Semantic profiles and the typography of concrete poetry 469
102. Le monde adulte et enfantin dans un journal pour enfants 473
103. Money and the mind: Cognitive economic metaphors in Franz Kafka's Der Prozeji 477
104. Nabokov's poetics of dates 481
105. "Hen" Literature: Genders in conflict (Bulgarian and Romanian women writers in the period between two World Wars) 485
106. Poetics of painting and pictures in poetry. On the semiotic space of C.F. Barnas' Vogelsberg landscapes 489
107. Inference switching in interpretation of poetry 493
108. The carnivalized poetics of Augusto dos Anjos 497
109. The discourse of postmortemism: Signs on postmodern philosophical walls 501
110. The indifférance in laughter 505
111. VI. Architecture and Space
112. The semiotics of the void 511
113. Semiotics of spatial configurations in architecture 515
114. Poetics of space - architecture between imagination and reality 519
115. A semiotic-aesthetic approach to the analysis of the practice of folk architecture in market towns 523
116. Modernism, postmodernism, and Eisenman's Nunotani building 525
117. La conceptualisation de l'espace en architecture 529
118. Icons, mimesis and simulacrum. Perceptual contexts 533
119. Space as the articulation of the material and the semiotic 537
120. Pour une sémiotique de l'installation artistique. Trois poétiques exemplaires: Recagno, Fazzolari et Médici 541
121. A semiotic modelization of the architectural conception 545
122. Project: Knowledge and invention. Comprehension of the architectural process 549
123. Architectural space and urban culture PRTVE 553
124. L'espace sociétal, sémiotiquement réalisé, comme instance de connaissance de l'espace physiquement constitué. 557
125. The logic of architectural composition 561
126. Experiences with urban spaces: Semiosis and rupture 565
127. The brothel as the space of "erotic" desire? 569
128. Hermeneutics, semiotics and architecture: Timaeus revisited 573
129. Las Vegas strip facades: The interplay between private identity and public presence 577
130. VII. Theater, Film and Music
131. The intersemiotic language of the theater and the movies: Regina and The little foxes 583
132. The Forte Method considered in a semiological perspective 587
133. The language of music in Ravel 591
134. Suspended moments: The fermata in Luigi Nono's string quartet "Fragmente - Stille, An Diotima" 595
135. The new film semiology 599
136. Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible in Chess Ecstasy 603
137. Sémiotique de l' "effet sonore'VSemiotics of "sound effect" 607
138. Cinema and literature: Theoretical studies 611
139. Violating Shakespeare 615
140. Musical notation: The importance of the relative value of its signs for the interpretation 619
141. A resignìficatìon of the tango 623
142. Music and tense 627
143. Identité sexuelle et la signification au théâtre 631
144. Modeling analysis and signification in music 635
145. Intersemiotic translation: The Peircean basis 639
146. "Beautiful butterflies trapped down by drawing pins" or, Peter Greenaway's The belly of an architect: A bagful of signs and designs 643
147. Binary semantic opposition in Debussy 647
148. The politics of melancholy 651
149. What's black and white and misread all over? Race, identity and community in "Judge Priest" 655
150. The iconic sign: from narrative prose to performance (Machado de Assis' The Psychiatrist) 659
151. Introduction to a semiological model of musical time 663
152. Le récit dans le théâtre contemporain: facteur d'éclatement de la spécificité dramatique? 667
153. Conscious illusions: The problem of the cinematic frame 671
154. Overlapping semiotic systems : Paintings in new films 675
155. Dance in process 679