The Back of Mnemosyne A Cultural-semiotic Analysis of the Forgetting Mechanism of Culture
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Hongbing Yu
Abstract
The construction of culture as a nonhereditary memory of the community is selective, with cultural forgetting functioning as one of its internal mechanisms. Based on Lotmanian Semiotic typology, cultural forgetting should be divided into such three types as forgetting of the text, forgetting of the rule and forgetting of the code. The main function of cultural forgetting is to ensure the formation and maintenance of cultural memory, which is manifested in three aspects: establishing cultural identity concerning the infusion of new texts, rules and codes, the external function concerning non-culture and anti-culture in the process of cultural interaction and expansion, and the internal cultural function concerning old culture and the past in the process of internal changes in specific cultures.
© 2014 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Front matter
- Global Semiotics: Bridging Different Civilizations —The 11th World Congress of IASS, Nanjing Normal University
- A Portrait of Professor Yiheng Zhao
- The Paradox of Translation
- Semiotics and Its Double-institutional Aspects: As Analyzing Methods and as Institutionalized Objects
- A Semiotic Perspective on the Language of Science
- The Theories of Value and Opposition Applied to Mathematics
- Zoomorphism: An Analytic Model for Drama Characters
- The Back of Mnemosyne A Cultural-semiotic Analysis of the Forgetting Mechanism of Culture
- “Le Soleil”. Representation or Re-presentation?
- An Analysis of Symbolized Character Images and Dual Discourses in Comic Novels
- Theoretical Models for the Rhetorical Analysis of Photomontage
- Demystification of an Ad Using Barthes’s Cultural Semiotics
- Introduction to the Special Section for Peircean Semiotics and His Philosophy of Inquiry
- Semiosis and Phase Transitions in Biology: a Peircean View
- Peirce on Wonder, Inquiry and the Semiotic Ubiquity of Surprise
- Semiotic Boundary Values, Spirit and Human Freedom
- Tartu Semiotics in 2012
- The Tartu Synthesis in Semiotics Today Viewed from America
- On Cognitive and Semiotic Functions of Shifters
- Pragmatical Aspects of Models of Sociocultural Space
- Sign Systems Studies and the Semiotic Journals of the World
- CogSem Notes IV
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Front matter
- Global Semiotics: Bridging Different Civilizations —The 11th World Congress of IASS, Nanjing Normal University
- A Portrait of Professor Yiheng Zhao
- The Paradox of Translation
- Semiotics and Its Double-institutional Aspects: As Analyzing Methods and as Institutionalized Objects
- A Semiotic Perspective on the Language of Science
- The Theories of Value and Opposition Applied to Mathematics
- Zoomorphism: An Analytic Model for Drama Characters
- The Back of Mnemosyne A Cultural-semiotic Analysis of the Forgetting Mechanism of Culture
- “Le Soleil”. Representation or Re-presentation?
- An Analysis of Symbolized Character Images and Dual Discourses in Comic Novels
- Theoretical Models for the Rhetorical Analysis of Photomontage
- Demystification of an Ad Using Barthes’s Cultural Semiotics
- Introduction to the Special Section for Peircean Semiotics and His Philosophy of Inquiry
- Semiosis and Phase Transitions in Biology: a Peircean View
- Peirce on Wonder, Inquiry and the Semiotic Ubiquity of Surprise
- Semiotic Boundary Values, Spirit and Human Freedom
- Tartu Semiotics in 2012
- The Tartu Synthesis in Semiotics Today Viewed from America
- On Cognitive and Semiotic Functions of Shifters
- Pragmatical Aspects of Models of Sociocultural Space
- Sign Systems Studies and the Semiotic Journals of the World
- CogSem Notes IV
