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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: In this paper, a biosemiotic view of the functional cycle is used to explain the relationship between dialogue and communication in the context of semioethics, and it is shown that the theory of autopoietic systems is compatible with dialogism if reference is to a linear causal model which describes communication as developing from source to destination, or to the conversation model governed by the turning around together rule.
Abstract: Charles Peirce, Mikhail Bakhtin and Thomas Sebeok all develop original research itineraries around the sign and, despite terminological differences, can be related with reference to the concept of dialogism and modelling. Jakob von Uexkull's biosemiosic "functional cycle", a model for semiosic processes, is also implied in the relation between dialogue and communication. Biological models which describe communication as a self-referential, autopoietic and semiotically closed system (e.g., the models proposed by Maturana, Varela, and Thure von Uexkull) contrast with both the linear (Shannon and Weaver) and the circular (Saussure) paradigms. The theory of autopoietic systems is only incompatible with dialogism if reference is to a linear causal model which describes communication as developing from source to destination, or to the conversation model governed by the turning around together rule. Dialogism understood in biosemiotic terms overlaps with the concepts of interconnectivity, interrelation, intercorporeity and presupposes the otherness relation. As Uexkull says, the relation with the umwelt in nonhuman living beings is stable and concerns the species; on the contrary, in human beings it is, changeable and concerns the single individual, which is at once an advantage and a disadvantage. Thanks to "syntactics", human beings can construct, deconstruct and reconstruct an infinite number of worlds from a finite number of elements. This distinguishes human beings from other animals and determines their capacity for posing problems and asking questions. The human being not only produces his or her own world, but can also endanger it, and even destroy it to the point of causing the extinction of all other life forms on Earth. The unique capacity for reflection on signs makes human beings responsible for life across the planet, both human and nonhuman. Such reflections shift semiotic research in the direction of semioethics .
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01 Oct 2006
TL;DR: It is shown how Peirce's ten sign types correspond to ten distinct types of visuals common in 21st-century discourse, i.e. hypertext, and how a Peircean understanding of each visual type leads to principles of effective visual design, on the Web or in other forms of hypertext.
Abstract: Though C.S. Peirce's triads of sign-object-interpretant andicon-index-symbol are often cited in passing, few are aware that Peirce (circa 1900) expanded these triads to describe ten categories of sign (three kinds of icon, four kinds of index, and three kinds of symbol). We will show how Peirce's ten sign types correspond to ten distinct types of visuals common in 21st-century discourse, i.e. hypertext, and how a Peircean understanding of each visual type leads to principles of effective visual design, on the Web or in other forms of hypertext.
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TL;DR: In this article, the importance of children's play in early years as a space where children experience and acquire operations with symbols, and the role of symbolic tools in transference to sign representation is discussed.
Abstract: This article defines the concepts related to symbolic and sign representations, cognition and learning in the early years. The first study experiment of teaching 33 preschool children (19 boys and 14 girls; M = 68, 5 months) the notion of rainbow phenomenon proved the equal effectiveness of the use of both sign and symbolic tools. The second study experiment of teaching 49 schoolchildren (23 boys and 26 girls; M = 102 months) the complex notion of a mathematical function furthered our understanding of the impact of sign and symbolic tools and showed that the use of symbolic tools (metaphors and imagery) as mediators for successful transference to sign representation is effective for children who otherwise experience difficulties mastering new and complex content. The authors discuss the importance of children's play in the early years as a space where children experience and acquire operations with symbols, and the role of symbolic tools in transference to sign representation. The article furthermore prov...
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05 Oct 2015
TL;DR: Sign Language Translation and Interpreting Studies (SLTIS) as mentioned in this paper is a new academic field and its direct connection to translation studies (TS) and interpreting studies (IS).
Abstract: Considering that Brazilian researches on translation and interpreting from/into/between sign languages can be combined into what is known as Sign Language Translation and Interpreting Studies (SLTIS), we carry out a reflection on the emergence of this new academic field and its direct connection to Translation Studies (TS) and Interpreting Studies (IS). Hence, we shall present the interdependence and fundamental distinction between TS and IS, search for references in the interpreting and translation of sign languages in major TS and IS writings, and reflect on the SLTIS in Brazil. This reflection is based on sign language translation and interpreting research carried out in graduate school and on the four editions of the National Conference on Sign Language Translation and Interpreting Research. We have observed that while the SLTIS stand out for involving a visual-gestural language, they also maintain an undeniable and necessary link to their origins, since they have no existence beyond the TS and IS academic fields.
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