scholarly journals Verse as a semiotic system

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 18-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mihhail Lotman
Keyword(s):  
Internal Structure ◽  
Semiotic System ◽  
Sign Systems ◽  
Sign System ◽  
Chess Piece ◽  
Semiotic Systems ◽  
Special Area ◽  
Important Challenge ◽  
Systems Studies ◽  
Modelling System

Poetry is an important challenge for semiotics, and a special area of study for the Tartu-Moscow semiotic school, since the first volume of Sign Systems Studies was Juri Lotman’s monograph Lectures on Structural Poetics (1964). From then on the concept of poetry as one of the secondary modelling systems has evolved, since in relation to poetry, the primary modelling system is natural language. In this paper, the concept of semiotic system has been re-examined and the treatment of primary and secondary semiotic systems has been significantly revised. A semiotic system can be characterized not only by its internal structure and other systems to which it is related, but also by the field upon what it is realized. The latter aspect has gained almost no attention in any treatment of semiotics; the execution of a sign is understood in the spirit of Saussure and Hjelmslev as a material realization of an abstract element (for instance, a chess piece knight can be realized with wood or plastic, but it can also remain purely virtual). At first, distinction is made between language and sign system. Every sign system consists of language and field. There are three different kinds of fields: 1) just a background – footprints on sand are a sign on the background of sand; 2) a material structured field (a football ground or a chess board in the game called Chapayev) and 3) an abstract structured field, which in its turn consists of other fields (for instance, the chess board which consists of 64 fields). Differently from a football ground, a chess board can be a purely virtual one on which virtual pieces are moved (for instance, in case of blindfold or correspondence chess). The field in its turn can be language and one language can use another language as its field. In this case we speak of primary and secondary sign systems. For instance, the prosodic system of language is a field for a verse metre, while the semantic system of language is a field for a narrative.

Rūmī’s Verse at the Crossroads of Language and Music

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 91-128
Author(s):  
Amir Artaban Sedaghat
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Ordinary Language ◽  
Direct Relation ◽  
Semiotic System ◽  
Ultimate Truth ◽  
Musical Performances ◽  
Sign System ◽  
Semiotic Systems ◽  
Language And Music ◽  
Mystic Experience

AbstractThis article demonstrates how Rūmī has made use of the Iranian musical system and Persian classical prosody, two separate semiotic systems with overlapping forms and aesthetic principles, in order to create a hybrid semiotic system in his poetry. His poetic feat can be observed through a comparative analysis of the linguistic and musical components of his poems in the Divān-e Shams-e Tabrizi, used extensively in the sacred tradition of samāʿ as well as in Iranian musical performances. This essay shows how the systematic use of rhythm and music in versification reaches new heights in Rumi’s ghazals, where the combination of language and music gives birth to a transcendental mode of expression devised with the aim of expressing the ineffable Ultimate Truth. Rumi employed this unique sign system to communicate a mystical message that cannot be conveyed using ordinary language. His unparalleled means of expression, in direct relation with the mystic experience of wajd, is used to incarnate what Sufis call maʿnā (the archetypal meaning). These archetypal ideas cannot be understood through dialectic means of the intellect but can only be taken in by the heart of the mystic in a state of ecstasy.

scholarly journals The place of art among other modelling systems

2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (2/4) ◽  
pp. 249-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juri Lotman
Keyword(s):  
Type Model ◽  
The Third ◽  
Complex Information ◽  
Sign Systems ◽  
The One ◽  
Stored Information ◽  
Systems Art ◽  
Flexible Model ◽  
Systems Studies ◽  
Modelling System

This article by Juri Lotman from the third volume of Trudy po znakovym sistemam (Sign Systems Studies) in 1967, deals with the problem of artistic modelling. The general working questions are whether art displays any characteristic traits that are common for all modelling systems and which could be the specific traits that can distinguish art from other modelling systems. Art is seen as a secondary modelling system, more precisely, as a play-type model, which is characterised simultaneously by practical and conventional behaviour and constant awareness of the possibility of alternate meanings to the one that is currently being perceived. At the same time art has play-like elements but is not the same as play, since play is inherently rule-bound, whereas art is a more flexible model the purpose of which is truth. Art is a special type of modelling system, since it is on one hand suitable for storing very large amount of complex information, but on the other hand it can increase the stored information and transform the consumer.

8. Development of the Simplified Sign System

2020 ◽  
pp. 281-310
Author(s):  
John D. Bonvillian ◽  
Nicole Kissane Lee ◽  
Tracy T. Dooley ◽  
Filip T. Loncke
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Sign Languages ◽  
Memory Aids ◽  
Sign Systems ◽  
Sign System ◽  
Deaf Parents ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Students With Autism ◽  
Initial Results

Chapter 8 provides background information on the development of the Simplified Sign System. These steps are included so that investigators may replicate research findings and/or develop additional signs for their own sign-intervention programs. The authors first discuss efforts to find highly iconic or representative gestures in the dictionaries of various sign languages and sign systems from around the world. If necessary, signs were then modified to make them easier to produce based on the results of prior studies of signing errors made by students with autism, the sign-learning children of Deaf parents, and undergraduate students unfamiliar with any sign language. These potential signs were then tested with different undergraduate students to determine whether the signs were sufficiently memorable and accurately formed. Signs that did not meet criterion were either dropped from the system or subsequently modified and re-tested. Initial results from comparison studies between Simplified Signs and ASL signs and between Simplified Signs and Amer-Ind signs are presented as well. Finally, feedback from users influenced the course of the project. Memory aids were developed, especially for those persons who have less familiarity with sign languages, to help explain the ties between each sign and its referent in case that relationship is not readily or immediately apparent to a potential learner.

scholarly journals 50 years of Sign Systems Studies

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 429-434
Author(s):  
From the Editors
Keyword(s):  
Sign Systems ◽  
Systems Studies

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scholarly journals Recent studies on signs: Commentary and perspectives

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 616-650 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen
Keyword(s):  
Special Issue ◽  
Sign Systems ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Systems Studies

In this commentary, I reply to the fourteen papers published in the Sign Systems Studies special issue on Peirce’s Theory of Signs, with a view on connecting some of their central themes and theses and in putting some of the key points in those papers into a wider perspective of Peirce’s logic and philosophy.

Semiotic Landscapes in Commercial Communication

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evripides Zantides ◽  
Evangelos Kourdis ◽  
Charikleia Yoka
Keyword(s):  
Sign Systems ◽  
Communication Method ◽  
Semiotic Systems ◽  
Commercial Communication ◽  
The City

The analysis of a sample of characteristic commercial shop signs in today's Limassol, Cyprus, asserts their anchorage function as syncretic/polysemiotic texts relying upon the synergy of semiotic systems, in their commercial and broader informational function. The study of intersemiosis, i.e. of the translation between pictorial and linguistic semiotic systems and their hierarchy, can provide the basis for an in-depth semiotic study of the socio-economic and historical-aesthetic landscape of the city. This study offers a preliminary methodological separation of sign systems on the shop signs in Limassol, showing up the ways intersemiosis remains the standard historical communication method of shop signs since the advent of mass commerce.

scholarly journals PERANCANGAN DESAIN TRADITIONAL SIGN SYSTEM DI AIR TERJUN TIU PITUQ KABUPATEN LOMBOK UTARA

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (01) ◽  
pp. 105-121
Author(s):  
Sandi Justitia Putra ◽  
Jazadil Iman
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
System Design ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Design Work ◽  
Field Surveys ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Sign Systems ◽  
Sign System ◽  
Natural Beauty

AbstrakKabupaten Lombok Utara adalah salah satu kabupaten di Provinsi Nusa Tenggara Barat yang dikenal dengan keindahan destinasi wisatanya. Salah satunya adalah wisata air terjun Tiu Pituq yang resmi dibuka pada tahun 2017. Lokasi wisata ini merupakan ekowisata yang mengutamakan aspek lingkungan dan keindahan alam. Sebagai salah satu obyek wisata yang memiliki luas ± 2 hektar tentunya wisata air terjun Tiu Pituq memerlukan sign system yang informatif dan komunikatif untuk para wisatawan yang berkunjung. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menciptakan desain sign system yang dapat menyampaikan informasi secara tepat dan memiliki ciri khas tradisional serta memiliki daya tarik tinggi sehingga para wisatawan yang mengunjungi dapat menemukan dan menikmati semua fasilitas atau spot-spot yang ada di air terjun Tiu Pituq. Guna mendukung peneliti dalam proses perancangan sign system di lokasi tersebut maka penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian kualitatif dengan melakukan wawancara, survei lapangan serta dokumentasi dari lokasi air terjun Tiu Pituq. Adapun hasil dalam Penelitian ini adalah karya desain sign system dengan penerapan konsep tradisional sign system, dengan suasana yang tetap menyatu dengan alam, dimana hal tersebut dapat membuat para pengunjung merasakan atau menikmati suasana alam sekaligus dapat mengetahui cerita rakyat yang terjadi di lokasi wisata tersebut. Kata Kunci: desain, ekowisata, traditional, sign system, tiu pituq  AbstractNorth Lombok Regency is one of the regencies in West Nusa Tenggara Province. It is known for the beauty of its tourist destinations. One of them is the Tiu Pituq waterfall tour, which officially opened in 2017. This tourist location is ecotourism that prioritizes environmental aspects and natural beauty. As one of the tourism objects that have an area of ± 2 hectares, of course, the Tiu Pituq waterfall tour requires an informative and communicative sign system for tourists who visit. The purpose of this research is to create a sign system design that can convey information accurately and has traditional characteristics and other than has a high attractiveness so that tourists who visit can find and enjoy all the facilities or spots in the Tiu Pituq waterfall. To support researchers in the process of designing sign systems at these locations, this study uses qualitative research methods by conducting interviews, field surveys, and documentation of the Tiu Pituq waterfall. The results of this study are the Sign System design work with the application of the concept of the traditional sign system, an atmosphere that still united with nature, where it can make visitors feel or enjoy the natural atmosphere while being able to know the folklore that occurs at the tourist site. Keywords: design, ecotourism, tiu pituq, traditional, sign system

scholarly journals Law as a culturally constituted sign-system – A space for interpretation

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-267
Author(s):  
Wagner Anne ◽  
Aleksandra Matulewska ◽  
Le Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Legal Theory ◽  
Social Perceptions ◽  
Legal Traditions ◽  
System A ◽  
Sign Systems ◽  
Sign System ◽  
The World ◽  
Meaning Interpretation

AbstractThe aim of the paper is to discuss legal language systems as culturally constituted sign-systems that are continuously evolving in time and space. To understand messages formulated in legal languages, one needs to realize that law is culture-bound, which in turn means that law reflects society’s mentality, tolerance, knowledge, social perceptions, etc. At the same time, law is a living reality impacted by various global phenomena and other legal systems. Therefore, this legal reality has “divergent potentialities” (Hasegawa, Ko. 2016. “A glance at the dynamics of ‘confluence’ in a legal system – notes on H. Patrick Glenn’s insights concerning Legal Traditions of the World”. In Transnational Legal Theory. Vol. 7/1: 1–8, 3), which enable it to develop in various directions depending on wider social, political and technological contexts. Additionally, when communicating law interlingually and intralingually, one needs to take into account the knowledge of senders and recipients since the degree of commensurability of law depends on the uniformity of interpretation on meanings. When discussing the issues of sign meaning interpretation, the authors will focus on non-decomposable units and fuzzy units. The meaning of such terms is subject to interpretation through the prism of tacit knowledge. Therefore, the interpretation of any culturally constituted sign-system is burdened with some loss of information and meaning deficiency.

scholarly journals The Conceptualization of Genre in Systemic Functional Linguistics

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-99
Author(s):  
Hesham Suleiman Alyousef ◽  
Asma Mohammed Alyahya
Keyword(s):  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Semiotic System ◽  
Situational Context ◽  
Social Purpose ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Semiotic Systems ◽  
Rhetorical Features ◽  
Context Of Situation ◽  
Stratified Model

Genre constitutes the rhetorical features of a text and the semiotic communicative purpose(s) it serves. It has marveled Systemic Functional Linguistics’ (SFL) scholars as to whether it should be treated as an aspect of the situational context (register) or as a distinct cultural semiotic system that correlates with texture- i.e. the three register categories of field, tenor, and mode. This paper aims to review the conceptualization of genre in the Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) tradition. Whereas Halliday associates genre with mode, Martin coordinates the three register variables of field, tenor, and mode in relation to social purpose. The elements of a schematic structure are generated by genre networks, which in turn preselect particular values of field, tenor and mode in a given culture. Both Halliday's context of situation and Martin’s context of culture levels are dynamic connotative semiotic systems through which new meanings are created by the three processes of semogenesis. Genre is conceived as a distinct cultural semiotic system, rather than an aspect of ‘mode’, that correlates with texture. Martin later avoided the intertextual glosses context of culture and context of situation since Halliday used them for instantiation, and not supervenience. The three register variables of language organize information at the level of genre into coherent texts. Modelled as register and genre, the stratified model of context configures meanings not only through discourse semantics, lexicogrammar, and phonology but also through the prosodic phases of evaluation. Halliday calls this model appliable linguistics since it enables us to develop a powerful model of language that is both “theoretical” and “applied” (Mahboob & Knight, 2010).

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