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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 Jan 1986
TL;DR: In this article, the system and the speaking subject are discussed in the context of Linguistics, Semiotics, Textuality, and Linguistic, metaphorical, and structural information.
Abstract: Part 1: Linguistics, Semiotics, Textuality 1. The System and the Speaking Subject 2. Word, Dialogue and Novel 3. From Symbol to Sign 4. Semiotics: A Critical Science and/or a Critique of Science 5. Revolution in Poetic Language Part 2: Women, Psychoanalysis, Politics 6. About Chinese Women 7. Stabat Mater 8. Women's Time 9. The True-Real 10. Freud and Love: Treatment and Its Discontents 11. Why the United States? 12. A New Type of Intellectual: The Dissident 13. Psychoanalysis and the Polis
1,122 citations
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01 Jan 2012
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of the social effects of visual materials, focusing on three criteria for a critical visual methodology: the three sites of production, the image itself and its audience: the Site of Production, the Image Itself and its Audiencing.
Abstract: Chapter 1: Researching with Visual Materials - A Brief Survey An Introductory Survey of 'the Visual' Understanding the Social Effects of Visual Materials Three Criteria for a Critical Visual Methodology Chapter 2: Towards a Critical Visual Methodology The Three Sites of Production, the Image Itself and Its Audiencing The Site of Production The Site of the Image The Site of Audiencing Chapter 3: How to Use This Book Reading This Book Selectively on the Basis of Sites and Modalities Reading This Book Selectively on the Basis of Having Found Some Images Why you Should Also Read Books Other Than This One How Each Chapter Works A Quick Word on Finding Your Images Another Quick Word, on Referencing and Reproducing Your Images Chapter 4: 'The Good Eye': Looking at Pictures Using Compositional Interpretation Compositional Interpretation: An Introduction Doing Compositional Interpretation: Technologies and the Production of the Image Doing compositional interpretation: The compositionality of the Image Itself Compositional Interpretation: An Assessment Chapter 5: Content Analysis: Counting What You (Think You) See Content Analysis: An Introduction Four Steps to Content Analysis Content Analysis: An Assessment Chapter 6: Semiology: Laying Bare the Prejudices beneath the Smooth Surface of the Beautiful Semiology: An Introduction Choosing Images for a Semiological Study The Sign and its Meaning-Making Processes in Mainstream Semiology Making Meaning Socially: Social Semiotics Semiology: An Assessment Chapter 7: Psychoanalysis: Visual Culture, Visual Pleasure, Visual Disruption Psychoanalysis and Visuality: An Introduction A Longer Introduction to Psychoanalysis and Visuality: Subjectivity, Sexuality and the Unconscious How is Sexual Difference Visual 1: Watching Movies with Laura Mulvey How is Sexual Difference Visual 2: From the Fetish to Masquerade From the Voyeuristic Gaze to the Lacanian Gaze: Other Ways of Seeing From the Disciplines of Subjection to the Possibilities of Fantasy Queer Looks Reflexivity Psychoanalysis and Visuality: An Assessment Chapter 8: Discourse Analysis: Text, Intertextuality, Context Discourse and Visual Culture: An Introduction An Introduction to Discourse Analysis I and Discourse Analysis II Finding Your Sources for a Discourse Analysis I Discourse Analysis I: The Production and Rhetorical Organization of Discourse Discourse Analysis I And Reflexivity Discourse Analysis I: An Assessment Chapter 9: Discourse Analysis II: Institutions and Ways of Seeing Another Introduction to Discourse and Visual Culture Finding Your Sources for Discourse Analysis II The Apparatus of the Gallery and the Museum The Technologies of the Gallery and Museum The Visitor Discourse Analysis II: An Assessment Chapter 10: To Audience Studies and Beyond: Ethnographies of Television Audiences, Fans and Users Audience Studies: An Introduction Audiences, Fans and Users Audience Studies Researching Audiences and Fans Ethnographies of Visual Objects Ethnographic Studies of Audiencing: An Assessment Chapter 11: Making Photographs as Part of a Research Project: Photo-Documentation, Photo-Elicitation and Photo-Essays Making Photographs as Part of a Research Project: An Introduction Photo-Documentation Photo-Elicitation Photo-Essays Making Photographs as Part of a Research Project: An Assessment Chapter 12: Ethics and Visual Research Methods An Introduction to Research Ethics and Visual Materials Consent, Anonymity, Copyright Consent Anonymity Copyright Conclusions: Ethics, Visual Research and Contemporary Visual Culture Chapter 13: Visual Methodologies: A Review Introduction Sites, Modalities and Methods Mixing Methods Useful Reading on Various Visual Materials List of Key Terms
1,003 citations
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01 Jan 1984
TL;DR: In this paper, the deconstruction of the linguistic sign is discussed and a criterion of interpretability is proposed. But this criterion is based on the assumption that the sign does not invert.
Abstract: Introduction 1. Signs 1.1. Crisis of a concept 1.2. The signs of an obstinacy 1.3. Intension and extension 1.4. Elusive solutions 1.5. The deconstruction of the linguistic sign 1.6. Signs vs. words 1.7. The stoics 1.8. Unification of the theories and the predominance of linguistics 1.9. The 'instructional' model 1.10. Strong codes and weak codes 1.11. Abduction and inferential nature of signs 1.12. The criterion of interpretability 1.13. Sign and subject 2. Dictionary vs. Encyclopedia 2.1. Porphyry strikes back 2.2 Critique of the Porphyrian tree 2.3. Encyclopedias 3. Metaphor 3.1. The metaphoric nexus 3.2. Traditional definitions 3.3. Aristotle: synecdoche and Porphyrian tree 3.4. Aristotle: metaphors of three terms 3.5. Aristotle: the proportional scheme 3.6. Proportion and condensation 3.7. Dictionary and encyclopedia 3.8. The cognitive function 3.9. The semiosic background: the system of content 3.10. The limits of formalization 3.11. Componential representation and the pragmatics of the text 3.12. Conclusions 4. Symbol 4.1. Genus and species 4.2. Expressions by ratio facilis 4.3. Expressions produced by ratio difficilis 4.4. The symbolic mode 4.5. Semiotics of the symbolic mode 4.6. Conclusions 5. Code 5.1. The rise of new category 5.2. The landslide effect 5.3. Codes and communication 5.4. Codes as s-codes 5.5. Cryptography and natural languages 5.6. S-codes and signification 5.7 The genetic code 5.8. Toward a provisonal conclusion 6. Isotopy 6.1. Discursive isotopies within sentences with paradigmatic disjunction 6.2. Discursive isotopies within sentences with syntagmatic disjunction 6.3. Discursive isotopies between sentences with paradigmatic disjunction 6.4. Discursive isotopies between sentences with syntagmatic disjunction 6.5. Narrative isotopies connected with isotopic discursive disjunctions generating mutually exlusive stories 6.6 Narrative isotopies connected with isotopic discursive disjunctions that generate complementary stories 6.7. Narrative isotopies connected with discursive isotopic disjunctions that generate complementary stoies in each case 6.8. Extensional isotopies 6.9. Provisional conclusions 7. Mirrors 7.1. Is the mirror image a sign? 7.2. The imaginary and the symbolic 7.3. Getting in through the Mirror 7.4. A phenomenology of the mirror: the mirror does not invert 7.5. A pragmatics of the mirror 7.6. The mirror as a prosthesis and a channel 7.7. Absolute icons 7.8. Mirrors as rigid designators 7.9. On signs 7.10. Why mirrors do not produce signs 7.11. Freaks: distorting mirrors 7.12. Procatoptric staging 7.13. Rainbows and Fata Morganas 7.14. Catoptric theaters 7.15. Mirrors that 'freeze' images 7.16. The experimentum crucis References Index of authors Index of subjects
970 citations
TL;DR: It is argued that this new Surveillance Medicine involves a fundamental remapping of the spaces of illness that includes the problematisation of normality, the redrawing of the relationship between symptom, sign and illness, and the localisation of illness outside the corporal space of the body.
Abstract: Despite the obvious triumph of a medical theory and practice grounded in the hospital, a new medicine based on the surveillance of normal populations can be identified as emerging in the twentieth century. This new Surveillance Medicine involves a fundamental remapping of the spaces of illness. This includes the problematisation of normality, the redrawing of the relationship between symptom, sign and illness, and the localisation of illness outside the corporal space of the body. It is argued that this new medicine has important implications for the constitution of identity in the late twentieth century.
954 citations
TL;DR: This paper argued that linguistic signs are part of a political economy, not just vehicles for thinking about it, and showed that linguistic features may refer to aspects of an exchange system; differentiated ways of speaking may index social groups in a social division of labor; and linguistic goods may enter the marketplace as objects of exchange.
Abstract: Although the classic Saussurean conception of language segregates the linguistic sign from the material world, this paper shows linguistic phenomena playing many roles in political economy. Linguistic signs may refer to aspects of an exchange system; differentiated ways of speaking may index social groups in a social division of labor; and linguistic “goods” may enter the marketplace as objects of exchange. These aspects of language are not mutually exclusive, but (instead) may coincide in the same stretch of discourse. Illustrations are drawn primarily from a rural Wolof community in Senegal. It is argued that linguistic signs are part of a political economy, not just vehicles for thinking about it. Only a conception of language as multifunctional can give an adequate view of the relations between language and the material world, and evade a false dichotomy between “idealists” and “materialists.”[language, political economy, sociolinguistics, semiotic theory, Senegal]
861 citations