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Universals in the Context of Juri Lotman's Semiotics
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In this paper, the uniqueness and universality of magic in culture are discussed, as well as universal forms of the reproductivity of intellect, and specific aspects of mythological and magical semiosis.Abstract:
1. Universals in connection with the interpretation of magic in Juri Lotman's semiotics 2. Specifics of mythological and magical semiosis 3. Antithesis in culture and sign-creation 4. The uniqueness and universality of magic in culture 5. Universal forms of the reproductivity of intellectread more
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Discursive Opportunities for the Estonian Populist Radical Right in a Digital Society
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Opposition theory and the interconnectedness of language, culture, and cognition
TL;DR: This paper revisited the theory of opposition as a viable theory for understanding conceptual structure, and also as a powerful technique for establishing the interconnectedness of language, culture, and cognition, in the context of linguistics and semiotics.
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Discourse of fear in strategic narratives: The case of Russia’s Zapad war games:
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A semiotic theory of life: Lotman’s principles of the universe of the mind
TL;DR: The authors extract some principles from Juri Lotman's formulations that characterise the core aspects of semiosis, applicable both in semiotics of culture and in biosemiotics, including code plurality, incompatibility, or non-translatability, autocommunication, or translation, semiosphere, semiiotic inheritance, non-gradual evolution, and modelling.
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The institution of semiotics in Estonia
TL;DR: In this paper, a historical overview of the institutional development of semiotics in Estonia during two centuries, and describes briefly its current status, is given, including the seminal role of two world-level classics of semiotic from the University of Tartu, Juri Lotman and Jakob von Uexkull.
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