The Structure of ‘the xpWa’ -Concept as a Semiotic Interface Characterizing Japanese Ethos

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Paradoxes in the Performance of Circus Acrobatic Acts 1225
3. III. Semiotics in the World/La sémiotique dans le monde
4. The Human Voice of Semiotics 1231
5. First Part/Première partie: History of Semiotics/Histoire de la sémiotique
6. Session 1 Charles S. Peirce
7. Modem Critical Editions and the New Peirce Edition 1251
8. The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Peirce Papers 1259
9. The Many Forms of Peirce's Manuscripts: A Guess at the Riddle 1269
10. Peirce's Paradise: A Visitor's View on Research and the Peirce Edition Project 1277
11. The Scope of Peirce’s Semiotics 1283
12. Peirce’s Semiotic Monism 1291
13. Peirce's Semiotic Triad 1299
14. Peirce’s Semiosis and the Logic of Evolution 1305
15. Stages in Peircian Semiosis 1311
16. Peirce on Signs and Science 1319
17. On Sign, Mind, and Action in Peirce 1325
18. Semiotics as Exploratory: Peirce’s Art of the Possible 1333
19. Peirce and Valency Grammar 1343
20. Session 2 Charles Morris
21. Syntactics, Semantics, and Pragmatics Revisited half a Century after their Introduction by Charles W. Morris 1349
22. Research in Syntactics after Morris 1355
23. Research in Pragmatics after Morris 1383
24. Session 3 European Semiotics/Sémiotique européenne
25. The Present State of Research on the Reception of the Ideologists in Europe (Spain, Italy, Germany) 1421
26. Roland Barthes or the Utopia of the Individual 1431
27. The Semiotic Thought of the Bakhtine Circle 1439
28. Notes on the Present State of European Semiotics 1447
29. The European Tradition and the Paris School 1455
30. Session 4 Comparative semiotics/Sémiotiques comparées
31. Aristotle, Peirce and Goffman in a New Frame 1465
32. Semiotics, the Modes of Judgment & the Nature of Criticism 1475
33. Peirce and Aristotle on Scientific Method 1485
34. Jung and Peirce: Tracings of Firstness 1489
35. Ferruccio Rossi-Landi and Walter Benjamin: Social Reproduction, Ideology and Artistic Technik 1495
36. The Semiotics of Peirce and of Greimas 1501
37. The Generative Project of Greimas and the Interpretative Project of Eco: Confluences 1511
38. Reflexions on the Associative Mechanisms used in the Transpositions of Meanings 1517
39. Descartes and Kant: Two Different Conceptions of Language 1525
40. The Pragmatics of Aristotle's Rhetorics: The Author in the Text 1531
41. Second Part/Deuxième partie: Semiotics and Culture/Sémiotiques et culture
42. Session 1 Cultures and Semiotics/Cultures et sémiotiques. A. Asia/Asie
43. China - A Country with an Abundant Semiotic Tradition 1535
44. Methodological Problems Concerning Chinese Semiotics Studies 1555
45. The Structure of ‘the xpWa’ -Concept as a Semiotic Interface Characterizing Japanese Ethos 1561
46. Empty Signs in the Text of Japan 1565
47. Iconicity and Substance in Indian Civilization 1573
48. The Face and the Mask: The Semiotics of Kathakali Dance-Drama 1581
49. Session 1 Cultures and Semiotics/Cultures et semiotiques. B. Africa/Afrique
50. Healing by Communication: The Semiotics of Yoruba Ethnoscience 1589
51. Session 1 Cultures and Semiotics Cultures et sémiotiques C. Europe
52. The Semiotics of Surrealism in the World of the Czech Avantgarde of the 1920s and 1930s 1597
53. Marine Semiotics in the Poetry of the Canary Islands 1605
54. Session 2 Cultural Semiotics Sémiotique culturelle A. Transcultural Semiotics Sémiotique transculturelle
55. Transnationals and the Human Sign. Modes of Signification 1611
56. The Logic of Art, the Grammar of Being 1617
57. Myth as Transvaluation 1625
58. Semantics and the Philosophy of Culture 1631
59. Semiotics as a Theory of (Sub)Culture(s) and its Material Core 1635
60. Semiotics, Culture and History. The Example of France during the First Years of the Third Republic 1649
61. Fiction as Science: Travel Narratives 1657
62. Dada and the Destruction of Cultural Codes 1665
63. Speech and Ethnoregional Ideology 1669
64. Session 2 Cultural Semiotics Sémiotique culturelle B. Mass-Communication Communication de masse
65. Urban Economy and the Urban Image 1675
66. Tropic Reality and Audiovisual Discourse 1683
67. On the Axiosemiotics of Postcards 1693
68. Semiotic and Mass Communication 1699
69. Austrian Television and the Presentation of History: The Case of Österreich I 1705
70. The Time of the Bolero: Colonialism and Patriarchy in Televised Melodramas and Publicity 1715
71. Session 2 Cultural Semiotics Sémiotique culturelle C. Emancipation
72. Semiotics and Emancipation 1723
73. The Semiotics of Emancipation 1729
74. Feminism as a Sign 1735
75. Emancipation - A Category of Social Justice vs. Social Demagogy 1739
76. Towards a Semiotic Analysis of Incarceration, Entrapment and Creativity among Women 1743
77. Conclusion. Teaching Semiotics and its Institutionalization 1749
78. Contents/Table des matières 1761