An Analytic-Critical Reading of the Book of the Nature of Islamic Art (A Collection of Essays and Lectures) by Ali asghar kalantar, Sadeq Rashidi

“…The authors of this book have sought to study the nature of Islamic art, through theoretical discussions in the context of historiographical, jurisprudential, mystical, sociological, semiotic, and hermeneutic attitudes. The main issue of this paper is to raise the fundamental question of how mystical and judgmental approaches to traditionalist discourse as well as historical approaches to descriptive discourse can analyze and interpret Islamic art and thus open the door to understanding and understanding the complexities of Islamic art discourse. …”
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Conceptual Operations in Multimodal Political Humor by Hadaegh Rezaei

“…This paper examines how different construals realized in semiotic modes create humor in Persian multimodal political discourse. …”
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Archi-écritures de genre et politiques de différance : immondices verbales et littéracies d’intervention dans le quotidien des établissements scolaires by Rodrigo Borba, Adriana Carvalho Lopes

“…Grounded on the analytical assumption that language (and, above all, what we do with it and speak about it) cannot not be sidelined if we want to understand historical moments of political and social turbulence, we argue that these semiotic interventions mess linguistic conventions and school’s everyday life and, thus, challenge power relations. …”
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Text-image relationships in contemporary fairy tales by Victoria Yefymenko

“… The article analyzes relations between the text and the image as two different semiotic modes in the framework of multimodal studies. …”
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Chased by a Unicorn by Georgios Orfanidis

“…So, through a list of relevant examples of monumental and miniature art, we will look for the beginnings of the two aspects of this ancient symbol, with an emphasis on the parable under examination, offering a new perspective on the semiotic analysis of Antiquity during the Middle Ages.…”
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Materializations of oricha voice through divinations in Cuban Santería by Kristina Wirtz

“…In this essay I explore how oricha (deities’) voice is produced in and through Cuban Santería practices that render oricha speech audible, meaningful, and quotable. In the semiotic order governing Cuban popular religious practice, human bodies and other objects can be “activated” as instruments of oricha speech. …”
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Türkiye'de Siyasi Karikatürün Yeri ve 11 nci Cumhurbaşkanlığı Seçimine İlişkin Siyasi Karikatürlerin Çözümlenmesi by Yavuz Bayram

“…Bu çalışmada karikatürlerin gözüken anlamlarının yanında daha başka anlamlar taşıyabileceği düşüncesinden hareketle göstergebilimsel (semiotic) çözümleme yöntemi kullanılmıştır. Çalışma içerisinde bu yöntemden faydalanılarak yakın dönem Türk siyasetinde çalkantılı bir döneme işaret eden son Cumhurbaşkanlığı seçiminin ilk tur oylaması ile ilgili basında yer alan siyasi karikatürler çözümlenmiştir. …”
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Langues et langages du merveilleux dans L’Enjomineur : enjeux poétiques, historiques et narratifs by Joanna Pavlevski-Malingre

“…The historical background of the narrative seems to forbid the use of made-up words and languages, and to involve other semiotic strategies in order to introduce supernatural elements. …”
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Marvel, Star Wars and the Risk of Being a Hero: Social Responsibilities for Transmedia Storytellers in the Age of Collective Journey by Webster Luke

“…The professional troubles Gunn and Wendig encountered are a result of them contrasting this storytelling modality, and can be understood in the context of a semiotic cultural shift, as we collectively come to better understand the impact of the Internet and our participatory digital culture.…”
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Discovering Accessible Financial Systems Resources for Emergent Users by Luciano Arruda Teran, Caio Pinheiro de Carvalho, Juliana Álvares Caruso, Marcelle Pereira Mota

“…After reviewing best practices and applying the Semiotic Inspection Method (SIM), the study developed and tested an instant payment prototype with riverside people in the Amazon region. …”
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Representation of Hidden Curriculum in EFL Textbook (Gender Markers) by E. E. Shishlova, I. Kuritsyn

“…The conducted discourse analysis is based on the analysis of semiotic means, which are used to nominate concepts basic to any society and culture. …”
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Homo Ludens: The Changing Meaning and Function of Game from Traditional Life to Culture Industry ‘Squid Game’ Example by Ferhat Kaçar

“…In the study, four of the six children's games in the series were analysed using semiotic and discourse analysis methods. These analyses show how the elements of fun, sincerity and enjoyment change under difficult conditions. …”
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Vladimir Nabokov, un exemple d’aliénation créatrice by Marie Bouchet

“…Similarly, the repeated inclusion of other semiotic codes (painting, photography, advertisements,…) shows that by playing with limits and the interpenetration of familiar and strange(r) elements, Nabokov found a creative alternative to the usually alienating condition of being a foreigner.…”
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Die buitebladkunswerk by Maritha Snyman

“…There is ample evidence however a cover design must, from a semiotic point of view, be regarded as an iconic complement to the linguistic text. …”
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Understanding intercultural virtual exchange through a translanguaging lens in Chinese as a foreign language by Guo Zhiyan, Xu Xinyue

“…The students leveraged a range of linguistic, semiotic and multimodal resources to navigate through communication with their partners. …”
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The use of South African languages by youth on social media by Carol Lesame, Edgar Malatji

“…For the quantitative part of the research, a survey and online observation were used for data collection and statistical methods and semiotic analysis used to analyse data. For the qualitative aspects of the study, personal interviews and focus groups were employed for data collection and thematic analysis used to analyse data. …”
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The polysemy of the colour term white in English, Russian, Tajik and Uzbek by Zayniev Daler

“…Colour is one of the central categories of both a conceptual and a linguistic world of image, correlated with an axiological and an esthetic assessment, a semiotic and value world of image of a given national culture, which allows us to talk about colour preferences, ethnic colour mentality, colour gaps and colour universals, that is, about the colour world of image. …”
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Dialetics and Structural Organization in the Ẹ̀bìbì Festival Performances of the Ẹ̀pẹ́ People in Lagos State, Nigeria by Babatunde Olanrewaju Adebua, Mobolanle Ebunoluwa Sotunsa

“…Using salient aspects of literary semiot ́ - ics, this paper explores the Èbìbì ̣ festival of the Èpẹ́ ̣ people by undertaking a literary evaluation of the structural organization, dialetics and interconnectedness of the performances. …”
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Shifting Musical Imaginaries at the Polynesian Cultural Center by Cynthia L. Van Gilder, Dana R. Herrera

“…These presentations can be read as performative texts and are here subjected to semiotic and discursive analysis. The immersive and repetitive nature of the elements of these performances (e.g., costumes, musical styles, kinesics, narrative descriptions) are designed to create easily understood musical identities for tourists to associate with each Polynesian culture encountered. …”
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Avatares discursivos de la estatidad en la prensa gráfica by Norma Fatala

“…This article approaches the discursive constructions of the nation State and citizenship in the written press from a socio-semiotic perspective. It studies the written press in Córdoba, Argentina, over the course of the week in which Néstor Kirchner takes power in Argentina (23 to 30 May, 2003). …”
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