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.

Semiotic and spatial scope: Towards a materialist semiotics

Abstract: We wish in this chapter to join a project that, in our view, ties together much of Gunther Kress’ work, and can also be found, among others, in the “Geosemiotics” developed by Scollon and Scollon (2003). This project is the construction of a materialist theory of signs: a study of signs that sees signs not as primarily mental and abstract phenomena reflected in “real” moments of enactment, but as material forces subject to and reflective of conditions of production and patterns of distribution, and as constructive of social reality, as real social agents having real effects in social life. Kress (2010b) consistently calls this a social semiotics, but it is good to remember that methodologically, this social semiotics is a materialist approach to signs. Such a materialism reacts, of course, against the Saussurean paradigm, in which the sign was defined as “une entite psychique” with two faces: the signifier and the signified (Saussure, 1960, p. 99). The study of signs-semiotics-could so become a study of abstract signs; retrieving their meaning could become a matter of digging into their deeper structures of meaning systems; and semiotics could become a highly formal enterprise (Eco, 1979).

Sign It Successful: Manual English Encourages Expressive Communication.

Abstract: • A system of total communication, which involves signing a word with the hands while saying it simultaneously, has been used successfully with mentally handicapped students, ages 3 to 21, in the Seattle public schools. Two speech pathologists, in cooperation with a classroom language pathologist, have used a combination of manual English and specific verbalization activities to teach language skills. Students are not only learning and retaining the correct manual English signs, but many are also initiating a sign as well as verbalizing the corresponding word. These innovative teaching techniques have increased the language success rate for the majority of the children involved in the program.

Signal, Meaning, and Message: Perspectives on sign-based linguistics

Abstract: 1. List of contributors 2. Introduction 3. Part I. Theoretical and Methodological Issues 4. (What) do noun class markers mean? (by Contini-Morava, Ellen) 5. Rethinking the Place of Statistics in Columbia School Analysis (by Davis, Joseph) 6. The Linguistic Sign in its Paradigmatic Context: Autonomy Revisited (by Elson, Mark J.) 7. Part II. Sign-Based Linguistic Analyses 8. A Surpassingly Simple Analysis (by Davis, Joseph) 9. Serbo-Croatian Deixis: Balancing Attention with Difficulty in Processing (by Gorup, Radmila J.) 10. Do - One Sign, One Meaning? (by Hirtle, Walter) 11. Data, Comprehensiveness, Monosemy (by Ruhl, Charles) 12. Phonology As Human Behavior: Initial Consonant Clusters Across Languages (by Tobin, Yishai) 13. Celtic Sense in Saxon Garb (by Wherrity, Michael P.) 14. Problems of Aspiration in Modern Standard Urdu (by Azim, Abdul) 15. Part III. Columbia School in the Context of 20th Century Linguistics 16. Cognitive and Semiotic Modes of Explanation in Functional Grammar (by Huffman, Alan) 17. The Future of a Minimalist Linguistics in a Maximalist World (by Kirsner, Robert S.) 18. Saussurean Anti-Nomenclaturism in Grammatical Analysis: A Comparative Theoretical Perspective (by Otheguy, Ricardo) 19. Index of Names 20. Index of Subjects

A Matter of Class: Taxonomies of Religion

Abstract: A s Robin Winks has persistently and wittily demonstrated, there are striking and suggestive parallels between the methods of scholarship, especially in the human sciences, and detective fiction.l Perhaps the earliest self-conscious methodologist, therefore, is the redoubtable Sherlock Holmes. Some attention has been given to extracting his procedures and presuppositions from the prosaic, once-removed accounts of Dr. Watson, who plays a role in Doyle's fictions somewhere between one of Socrates' interlocutors, "I hadn't thought of that, please continue" and Jesus' disciples as represented by Mark, who, in one scholar's well-known formulation, progress from "nonunderstanding to misunderstanding."2 In the literature on Holmes, however, I find surprisingly little attention paid to the manuscript writings and publications by the archetypical detective himself. There are fourteen in all, although four seem only sketches. While the two "memoirs" Holmes published in the Anthropological Journal are attractive, it is what appears to be his first publication, one of three translated into French, that catches my eye. Holmes describes this publication, which is primarily concerned with tobacco ashes, in The Sign of the Four:

Methods and procedures in sign language acquisition studies

Abstract: Sign language acquisition is a relatively new field and is still developing its own good practice. This paper gives an overview of the most common procedures in research design, choice of subjects, transcription and documentation. The paper concludes with a brief overview of the chronology of development of sign languages.