Political Analysis as Auto-Communication of Culture
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Andreas Ventsel
Abstract
The present paper sets for itself the modest task of pointing to a problem of metalanguage and object-language in political analysis, from a cultural semiotics point of view. The so-called post-foundationalist view, common in political discourse theories, is primarily characterized by the rejection of essentialist notions of ground for the social, and the inauguration of cultural and discursive characteristics into the wider social scientific paradigm. However, it seems that despite placing communication at the heart of their conceptions of discourse, the communicative character of constructing power relations remains undertheorized in those conceptions. This paper attempts to approach the above problem by way of the concepts of communication and autocommunication (Lotman). The outcomes stemming from the latter are unavoidable, since the result of any possible research (text) itself belongs to culture or a larger discourse and operates as the organizing function of the latter. Hence, research practice and its results always need to be looked at as mutually affecting each other.
© 2014 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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- Part One. Semiotic Conference Information
- List of the Plenary Speakers at The 11th World Congress of Semiotics (Oct. 5-9, 2012)
- A Sketch of Professor Ersu Ding ( 丁尔苏)
- Part Two. New Theories and Applications of Semiotics
- Iconicity, Otherness and Translation
- The Development of Semiotics and Linguistics from the Perspective of the Evolution of the Logical Systems of Categories
- Compound Signs
- A Glance at the Relation between Saussure and Aesthetics
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- On the Change of the Middle Item and Cultural Markedness
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- Part Three. Special Section for Peircean Semiotics and the Philosophy of Inquiry
- Introduction to the Special Section for Peircean Semiotics and His Philosophy of Inquiry
- Peircean Habits and the Life of Symbols
- Information, Abstraction and the External Structure of the Sign: Their Relation to the Social Sciences
- Peircean Triadicity: Application to Deictic Use
- Part Four Special Section for Tartu Semiotics
- What Is Special about Our Activities in Tartu?
- The Semiotics of the Noosphere and Signs that Matter
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- Scientific Dialogue in Lotmanian Semiotics: From Language to Languages
- Part Five Special Section for Cognitive Semiotics
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Articles in the same Issue
- Front matter
- Part One. Semiotic Conference Information
- List of the Plenary Speakers at The 11th World Congress of Semiotics (Oct. 5-9, 2012)
- A Sketch of Professor Ersu Ding ( 丁尔苏)
- Part Two. New Theories and Applications of Semiotics
- Iconicity, Otherness and Translation
- The Development of Semiotics and Linguistics from the Perspective of the Evolution of the Logical Systems of Categories
- Compound Signs
- A Glance at the Relation between Saussure and Aesthetics
- Semiotics, under the Challenge of Globalization
- Towards a Semiotics of Brand Equity: On the Interdependency of Meaning Surplus and Surplus Value in a Political Economy of Brands
- On the Change of the Middle Item and Cultural Markedness
- A Different Imagination: Authenticity and Inauthenticity of Narrating Kashmir
- Textual Identity Bothering the Semiotic Self: Nina’s Alternating Identities in Black Swan
- Subject, Dialogue and Transcendence in Sophocles’s Oedipus at Colonus
- Part Three. Special Section for Peircean Semiotics and the Philosophy of Inquiry
- Introduction to the Special Section for Peircean Semiotics and His Philosophy of Inquiry
- Peircean Habits and the Life of Symbols
- Information, Abstraction and the External Structure of the Sign: Their Relation to the Social Sciences
- Peircean Triadicity: Application to Deictic Use
- Part Four Special Section for Tartu Semiotics
- What Is Special about Our Activities in Tartu?
- The Semiotics of the Noosphere and Signs that Matter
- Political Analysis as Auto-Communication of Culture
- Boris Uspenskij and the Tartu–Moscow School of Semiotics
- Scientific Dialogue in Lotmanian Semiotics: From Language to Languages
- Part Five Special Section for Cognitive Semiotics
- CogSem Notes III
