Abstract
In this paper I look at a specific Hebrew religious term, Tikkun Olam, to examine the manner in which it signifies differently in two specific cases. While we understand that meaning is carried in both denotation and connotation, and while a genealogy of meaning is often useful to understand the manner in which meaning has changed across time, this paper recounts the manner in which a single word may signify differently synchronically, at a single point in history.
Funding source: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships Program Master’s Scholarships
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Research Articles
- Derrida’s “chimerical experimental exercise”: an ecolinguistic dream of a more biocentric language
- The plastic of clothing and the construction of visual communication and interaction: a semiotic examination of the eighteenth-century French dress
- A zoosemiotic approach to the transactional model of communication
- Complexes, rule-following, and language games: Wittgenstein’s philosophical method and its relevance to semiotics
- The distribution of handshapes in the established lexicon of Israeli Sign Language (ISL)
- On the blankness of blank-signs
- Systematizing evil in literature: twelve models for the analysis of narrative fiction
- The use of semiotic resources in traffic policing: an exploration of genre structure and exchanges in traffic accident handling in China
- Practical Esotericism and Tikkun Olam: two modern renditions of a medieval mystical idea
- Bühler’s organon model of communication: a semiotic analysis of advertising slogans
- Book Reviews
- Semiotics in visual communication: review of Doing Visual Analysis
- Review of A (bio)semiotic theory of translation: the emergence of social-cultural reality