Abstract
This study examines the symbolic use of stone beyond its basic function as a construction material in architecture. It investigates the meaning of stone using Iraqi Kurdistan residential architecture as a case study. The theoretical framework of the study is developed through the content analysis method, by applying Hershberger’s basic model of meaning, and by exploring Krampen’s writings on semiotics in architecture. The relevant theoretical framework was tested through systematic physical observation of selected houses in Iraqi Kurdistan and by using the inductive reasoning method. The study recognises that stone, beyond being a construction material, conveys the symbolic meaning of “power,” “wealth,” and “belonging” in contemporary houses of Iraqi Kurdistan. Based on that, a meaningful situation model was created to evaluate the phenomenon. The model can also be useful in analysing similar cases and research situations.
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- The symbolic usage of stone beyond its function as a construction material: Example of residential architecture in Iraqi Kurdistan
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- Book Review
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Research Articles
- The word revisited: Introducing the CogSens Model to integrate semiotic, linguistic, and psychological perspectives
- The symbolic usage of stone beyond its function as a construction material: Example of residential architecture in Iraqi Kurdistan
- Between interpretation and the subject: Revisiting Bakhtin’s theory of polyphony
- Indexicality, meaning, use
- Modèles logiques de la structure élémentaire de la signification: Templum, prisme sémiotique, carré sémiotique, cube sémiotique et autres
- The soundscape as the transformatrice in some Dene songs and stories
- Epistemic logic: All knowledge is based on our experience, and epistemic logic is the cognitive representation of our experiential confrontation in reality
- Saussure’s “anagrams”: A case of acousmatic mistaken identity?
- The imagination, the conscious, and the unconscious in Jean Cocteau’s La Belle et la Bête
- How actions and words come to make sense in a continuously changing world of work: A case study from software development
- Wendt versus Pollock: Toward visual semiotics in the discipline of IR theory
- RoboDoc: Semiotic resources for achieving face-to-screenface formation with a telepresence robot
- Book Review
- Review of Umberto Eco in his own words