House and Home: The Meaning Production of House and Family

2019 ◽  
Vol 07 (02) ◽  
pp. 7-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
志华 邓
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Production

Interpretant, pure rhetoric, and semiotics of poetry

Semiotica ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (222) ◽  
pp. 163-179
Author(s):  
Masoud Algooneh Juneghani
Keyword(s):  
New Model ◽  
The World ◽  
Meaning Production ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Main Components ◽  
The Mind

AbstractOne of the main components of the Peirce’s semiotics is interpretant, which is formed through the interaction of representamen and object in the mind of the subject. As meaning-production is an endless, infinite process, it is the interpretant that plays a key function in this process; in fact interpretant leads to the revival of some other sign and consequently makes the signification go on in an endless route. Peirce, taking this in mind, asserts that the study of the rules by which an interpretant leads to the revival of another new sign could be established under a comprehensive topic of pure rhetoric. However, the question of pure rhetoric and its rules is almost completely neglected in his writings and his arguments in this regard are no more than a couple of pages. As a result, the present research tries not only to analyze and justify the rules proposed by Peirce, but also investigate theoretically their application in the semiotics of poetry. The researcher, accordingly, by proposing a new model, tries to open up an infinitesimal aperture to the world of semiotics. This goal is somewhat achieved.

scholarly journals Semiotic spaces in antidiscriminatory political discourse: Naming practices as indexes

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (5) ◽  
pp. 721-743
Author(s):  
Mats Landqvist
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Concrete Word ◽  
Word Production ◽  
Language Policy And Planning ◽  
Word Meanings ◽  
Production Policy ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
Meaning Production ◽  
Policy And Planning

ABSTRACTThis article explores the semiotic spaces occupied by organizations working against discrimination in Sweden. Expressions of identity, norm critique, and political goals are studied in relation to word production and language policy and planning. The study departs from interviews with representatives from three organizations within the hbtqi, antiracist, and disability movements. Other resources connected to them have also been analyzed, such as glossaries. Theoretically, this study draws on Yuri Lotman's concept of semiospheres, allowing the analysis to weigh in the whole semiotic process, including meaning production, policy work, and concrete word production. This approach completes an analysis of indexical orders. The results show that (a) organizations are aware of the importance of linguistic choices, (b) when new concepts and words are spread to the public, tension can arise and sometimes objections, and (c) word meanings change when used in public discourse. (Language policy and planning, semiosphere, indexical order, hbtqi, antiracism, disability, discrimination)

scholarly journals Following the Book: Towards a Pragmatic Sociology of the Book

Sociology ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (6) ◽  
pp. 1185-1200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filipe Carreira da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Meaning Production ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Pragmatic Sociology ◽  
Democracy In America ◽  
Object Relationship

This article offers an outline of a pragmatic sociology of the book. Whilst ubiquitous, books have received relatively little attention from sociologists. I propose to remedy this situation by drawing upon the ideas of GH Mead, namely his neo-Hegelian theory of the subject–object relationship. Mead’s chief insight is that objects such as books are first social and only then physical entities. They have agency not because of their thing-ness, so to speak, but because of their sociality. After reviewing the existing literature on the book, I discuss Mead’s most relevant contributions. In the proposal for a pragmatic sociology of the book that follows, I combine pragmatism’s focus upon the materiality of meaning-production with genealogy’s concern with power and violence. I conclude with an illustration of the approach: the simultaneous decanonization of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America among sociologists today and its canonization in political science.

scholarly journals Jukstaponering van Hom en my - die digter as hermeneut

Literator ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 61-80
Author(s):  
A. S. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Reading Strategy ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Limited Space ◽  
Literary Context ◽  
Meaning Production ◽  
Hermeneutic Process ◽  
The Way

Juxtaposition of Him and me - the poet’s role as a hermeneutIn dealing with T.T. Cloete's poem “Van Horn en my” (Jukstaposisie, 1982) a reading strategy is developed to determine the significance of the interplay of texts and the effects on meaning production encoded in the text. A consideration of the intertextual literary context and comparative reading activates participation in the poetic process. What is perceived in Cloete’s poetic strategies in the poem "Van Hom en my” is the signifying of Omnipresence and of dimensionality within the poem’s limited space. Since comparable poetic strategies which signify the same perceptions are traced by exegetes in the source text, these strategies reveal the particular hermeneutic process present in the way the poet employs his intertext.

Self-observation, self-reference and operational coupling in social systems: steps towards a coherent epistemology of mass media

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-74
Author(s):  
Juan Miguel Aguado
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Epistemic Status ◽  
Media System ◽  
Autopoietic Systems ◽  
Meaning Systems ◽  
Meaning Production ◽  
Significant Divergence ◽  
The Mass Media

This paper is concerned with the role of self-observation in managing complexity in meaning systems. Revising Niklas Luhmann's theory of mass media, we approach the mass media system as a social sub-system functionally specialized in the coupling of psychic systems' (individuals) self-observation and social systems' self-observation (including, respectively, themselves as each other's internalized environment).According to Autopoietic Systems Theory and von Foerster's second order cybernetics, self-observation presupposes a capability for meta-observation (to observe the observation) that demands a specific distinction between observer and actor. This distinction seems especially relevant in those social contexts where a separation between the action of observation and other social actions is required (in politics, for instance). However, in those social contexts (such as mass-media meaning production) where the defining action is precisely observation (in terms of the differentiation that constitutes the system), the border between observer and actor is blurred.We shall consider the significant divergence between the implicit and the explicit epistemologies of the mass media system, which appears to be characterized by the explicit assumption of a classic objectivist epistemology, on one side, and a relativist epistemology on the other, posing a hybrid epistemic status somewhere in between science and arts.

scholarly journals General sociolinguistics, social semiotics and semiotics of culture – ex pluribus unum? Forty years after Language as Social Semiotic

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (3/4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Suren Zolyan
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Goal Setting ◽  
Synthetic Methods ◽  
Social Semiotics ◽  
Dynamic Approach ◽  
Functional Characteristics ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Meaning Production ◽  
Linguistic Structures

The birth of social semiotics is usually associated with the publication of Michael Halliday’s book Language as Social Semiotic (1978). We try to draw attention to possible new developments in social semiotics, which still remain a potential transdisciplinary project for social sciences. In order to do this, we address the interrelation between sociolinguistics, social semiotics and the semiotics of culture. All of these describe mechanisms of meaning production and translation beyond linguistic structures. The differentiation between these workings is based on a distinc tion between various aspects of meaning production and communication and functional characteristics of goal setting. The complexity of these processes legitimates the complexity of methodology used to describe them. Interconnection between different domains and aspects may create synthetic methods based on the dynamic approach to meaning production and transmission.

A newsmaker’s tool: The 35mm camera and journalism’s material epistemology

Journalism ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 1125-1141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Creech
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Study ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Digital Photography ◽  
Large Format ◽  
Meaning Production ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
The Relationship

As devices become a more visible and integral part of media practice, it is important for researchers and scholars to attend to the ways in which philosophies, professional discourses, and technical limits structure the ways these technologies are deployed. The 35mm camera is a technological waypoint between earlier large-format cameras and contemporary digital photography and offers a useful historical example for interrogating the relationship between seemingly inert technical operations and journalism’s modes of meaning production. To that end, this article offers a theoretical perspective for interrogating the 35mm camera through the lens of Latour, with the aim of developing a schema for integrating devices into the cultural study of media and communication.

Foreigners in Pre-Modernity

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-135
Author(s):  
Peter Strohschneider ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Modern Concept ◽  
Michel De Montaigne ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
Meaning Production ◽  
History Of ◽  
Early Modern Times ◽  
Modern Experience ◽  
Heating Up

The essay draws on the concept of ‘asymmetric counter-concepts’ as developed by Reinhart Koselleck starting with twin-formulas such as ‘the familiar and the unfamiliar’ which are generally used to establish collective des­ignations of the self and others and which institutionalize the axiological and the epistemological. These counter-concepts can have different semantic temperatures. The focus is on the underlying meaning-production schemes which produce value-asymmetries. The essay tries to show that a process of heating up these value-asymmetries is only one side of the history of such asymmetric counter-concepts from medieval to modern times. Simultaneously a cooling down can be observed in written texts from different periods; examples include the 12th century Rolandslied and the 16th century Essais of Michel de Montaigne. Full negation eliminates uncertainties and value insecurities. But the complexities and contingencies that emerge since Early Modern times then lead to losses of negatability (Negierbarkeitsverluste), which in turn render gains in unfamiliarity. The modern experience of the foreign is indeterminate otherness instead of determined negation that characterized pre-modern alterity. Modern societies therefore need to mediate between validity and contingency under the circumstances of plurality. Interpretational demands and uncertainty about the relevant interpretive frames increase. Foreignness is then experienced as unfamiliarity. This presupposes intellectual attitudes like irritability, curiosity, and willingness to learn. The modern concept of ‘culture’ then is proposed as a comparative pattern where only unavoidable structural asymmetry remains. It explains cultural differences and the experience of foreignness through heterogeneity. Using this specifically modern pattern, there is no longer a legitimate value slope between one’s own position and its negation. The distinction is then between the familiar and the unfamiliar.

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