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Sign (semiotics)

About: Sign (semiotics) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 4080 publications have been published within this topic receiving 70333 citations. The topic is also known as: semiotic sign.


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01 Apr 2005-Ethics
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that these philosophers and psychologists have drawn wrong conclusions from psychological results and that the lesson to be learned is substantially narrower than the movement seems to believe.
Abstract: Of late philosophers have begun to write about the implications of research in social and personality psychology for the study of ethics The spirit of this movement is that ethics should be founded on a realistic conception of human nature and that social and personality psychology have important things to say about these matters Examples of philosophers involved in this movement are, inter alia, and most prominently, Doris, Flanagan, Harman, and Vranas On the psychologists’ side, Ross and Nisbett are the most prominent examples of those attempting to insure that the findings of psychology find their way into our conception of human nature We want to sign up for this movement too But we are afraid that these philosophers and psychologists have drawn wrong conclusions from psychological results We believe the lesson to be learned is substantially narrower than the movement seems to believe

153 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, Nichols draws from a variety of approaches, including Marxism, psycholanalysis, communication theory, semiotics, structuralism, and psychology of perception, and shows how and why we make emotional investments in sign sytsems with an ideological context.
Abstract: To what degree, Nichols asks, does ideology inform images in films, advertising, and other media? Does the cinema or any other sign system liberate or manipulate us? How can we as spectators know when the media are subtly perpetuating a specific set of values? To address these issues, the author draws from a variety of approaches Marxism, psycholanalysis, communication theory, semiotics, structuralism, the psychology of perception. Working with two interrelated theories ideology and image-systems, and ideology and principles of textual criticism Nichols shows how and why we make emotional investments in sign sytsems with an ideological context."

152 citations

Book
19 Apr 2007
TL;DR: This book discusses language in the Wild, Gesture, Sign, and Speech, and the Ritualization of Language, as well as conceptual Spaces and Embodied Actions, and The Gesture-Language Interface.
Abstract: 1. Grasping Language: Sign and the Evolution of Language 2. Language in the Wild: Paleontological and Primatological Evidence for Gestural Origins 3. Gesture, Sign, and Speech 4. Gesture, Sign, and Grammar: The Ritualization of Language 5. Conceptual Spaces and Embodied Actions 6. The Gesture-Language Interface 7. Invention of Visual Languages

150 citations

Book
01 Jan 1988
TL;DR: Aboriginal sign languages observed: a history, signs of kinship, and two versions of a Warlpiri story.
Abstract: List of illustrations Preface Orthographic conventions and descriptive terms 1 Introduction 2 Aboriginal sign languages observed: a history 3 Aboriginal sign languages observed: geographical review 4 North central desert background 5 Sign structures 6 Sign forming and sign meaning 7 Sign organization and word structure 8 Signing spoken language grammar 9 Discourse in sign and speech 10 Signing and speaking simultaneously 11 Signs of kinship 12 Comparing Aboriginal sign languages 13 Australian Aboriginal sign languages and other semiotic systems 14 Aboriginal interaction and Aboriginal sign language Appendix I Sign notation symbols Appendix II Two versions of a Warlpiri story References Index of signs General index

149 citations

Reference BookDOI
30 Nov 2005
TL;DR: In this paper, a survey of semiosis, communication and language: introduction, Paul Cobley nonverbal communication, Thomas A. Sebeok Charles Sanders Peirce's concept of the sign, Floyd Merrell the origins of language, William C. Stokoe language and the ecology of the mind, Ray Jackendoff sociolinguistics and social semiotics pragmatics, Jef Verschueren language change, Jean Aitchison the Chomskyan revolutions, Raphael Salkie linguistics after Saussure, Roy Harris discourse, Nikolas Coupl
Abstract: Using this book. Part I Semiosis, communication and language: introduction, Paul Cobley nonverbal communication, Thomas A. Sebeok Charles Sanders Peirce's concept of the sign, Floyd Merrell the origins of language, William C. Stokoe language and the ecology of the mind, Ray Jackendoff sociolinguistics and social semiotics pragmatics, Jef Verschueren language change, Jean Aitchison the Chomskyan revolutions, Raphael Salkie linguistics after Saussure, Roy Harris discourse, Nikolas Coupland and Adam Jaworski. Part II Key themes and major figures in semiotics and linguistics.

147 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20222
2021178
2020196
2019188
2018186
2017177