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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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TL;DR: Whether children who apparently failed to construe messages as clues to intended meanings would nevertheless reveal understanding of other aspects of meaning-message relationships proved to be the case in the first and third investigations.
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TL;DR: Deconstruction represents a radical departure from Western ontology from Plato onward and its essentialistic notions of the meta- physics of presence as discussed by the authors, where signs, as well as texts, are decenteredy that is, they are continually altering meaning in relation to other signs or texts, being in constant motion.
Abstract: In this article, the aim is to address different forms of relationship between deconstruction, as coined by Jacques Derridar and research perspec- tives on music education. Deconstruction represents a radical departure from Western ontology from Plato onward and its essentialistic notions of the meta- physics of presence. Instead, Derrida claims that signs, as well as texts, are decenteredy that is, they are continually altering meaning in relation to other signs or texts, being in constant motion. Simultaneously, signs and texts, as well as existence and experience, constitute themselves by binary oppositions, like nature/culture, content/form, original/copy, internal/external, empirical/ theoretical, and so on. Derrida argues that such differences are not inherent, but are instead socially produced and hierarchical mechanisms for providing systematic priority to one aspect of the dualism to the neglect of the other. Con- sequently, the ethical interest of music education research, from a deconstruc- tive perspective, would be to expose what is marginalized in musical schooling, upbringing, and socialization. In that case, deconstruction might also be able to rectify some of its destructive reputation. The term deconstruction is forever associated with the writings of the French- Algerian philosopher, Jacques Derrida. Its origins, however, can be traced to Hei-
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TL;DR: Signs and their interpreters in the Histories of Herodotus have been examined in this paper, where the authors present an unprecedented examination of signs and their interpretters, as well as the terminology that the author uses to describe sign transmission, reception, and decoding.
Abstract: Readers of Herodotus' Histories are familiar with its reports of bizarre portents, riddling oracles, and striking dreams But Herodotus draws our attention to other types of signs too, beginning with human speech itself as a coded system that can manipulate and be manipulated Objects, gifts, artifacts, markings, even the human body, are all capable of being invested with meaning in the Histories and Herodotus shows that conventionally and culturally determined actions, gestures, and ritual all need decoding This book represents an unprecedented examination of signs and their interpreters, as well as the terminology Herodotus uses to describe sign transmission, reception, and decoding Through his control and involvement in this process he emerges as a veritable 'master of signs'
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TL;DR: The appraisal shows that TibSL appears to be between “severely” and “definitely” endangered, adding to the extant studies on the widespread phenomenon of sign language endangerment.
Abstract: This article offers the first overview of the recent emergence of Tibetan Sign Language (TibSL) in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), China. Drawing on short anthropological fieldwork, in 2007 and 2014, with people and organisations involved in the formalisation and promotion of TibSL, the author discusses her findings within the nine-fold UNESCO model for assessing linguistic vitality and endangerment. She follows the adaptation of this model to assess signed languages by the Institute of Sign Languages and Deaf Studies (iSLanDS) at the University of Central Lancashire. The appraisal shows that TibSL appears to be between "severely" and "definitely" endangered, adding to the extant studies on the widespread phenomenon of sign language endangerment. Possible future influences and developments regarding the vitality and use of TibSL in Central Tibet and across the Tibetan plateau are then discussed and certain additions, not considered within the existing assessment model, suggested. In concluding, the article places the situation of TibSL within the wider circumstances of minority (sign) languages in China, Chinese Sign Language (CSL), and the post-2008 movement to promote and use "pure Tibetan language".
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TL;DR: The authors examines the various limits of knowledge in Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale as a critique of finitude in object-oriented philosophy and speculative realism, concluding that death shall be dead is the sign of the receding limits that emerge when finitude is revoked, the lack of content that is a sign of a finitude still to come.
Abstract: This article examines the various limits of knowledge in Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale as a critique of finitude in object-oriented philosophy and speculative realism. The phrase "death shall be dead" is the form of the receding limits that emerge when finitude is revoked, the lack of content that is a sign of a finitude still to come. The materialisms of the Tale assert a limit that does not arrive because they begin with the inexhaustible limitations of form.
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