(Et il la regardait.) Un destin entre parenthèses by Jean-Marie Privat

“…This study offers an intensive micro-reading of five micro-examples where appear in turn in/by the stylistic play of parentheses: narrative and cultural belligerence, semiotic and political intersigns encoding, esthetical deconstruction of social discourse, humoristic iconisation of graphic madness, dialogic interlocution with the reader and finally, the eroticization and aestheticization of punctuative curves. …”
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A literary-historical analysis of Daniel 2: two powers in opposition by M. Nel

“…Firstly, the structural investigation uses Propp’s model for a functional analysis of the text, followed by a semiotic analysis to identify the functions and qualifications in the text. …”
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Geo-societal More-than-Humanness by Bohle Martin

“…The essay combines geo-philosophical thought and Semiotic Cultural Psychological Theory to depict an ideal-typic narrative of people’s sensemaking culture as an intrinsic part of the Earth System. …”
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Do livro ilustrado ao aplicativo: reflexões sobre multimodalidade na literatura para crianças by Giselly Lima de Moraes

“…This paper reflects on the diversity of semiotic resources in contemporary children’s literature, analyzing the impact of technology on the literary text. …”
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À la fin, tout i/y passe by Jean-Marie Privat

“…We will then analyze the graphematic economy, semiotic and cultural, that is forged in the opposition between the letters “i” and “y”, and that is crystallized at the incipit in the hero’s name (Charbovari/Charles Bovary). …”
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Exegetical analyses and spiritual readings of the story of the annunciation (Luke 1:26-38) by Huub Welzen

“…This reading is informed by semiotic analysis and the sociology of literature. …”
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Cielesność dywergencyjna – komponent integralnej edukacji wychylonej w przyszłość by Katarzyna Krasoń

“…Each element of art (music, dancing as a system of signs may change its code, as the same symbols may be conveyed in another semiotic code, for example: a system of sounds in kinetic-spatial exemplification. …”
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What is Cultural Science? (And what it is not.) by Potts Jason, Hartley John

“…The central idea is to reconceptualize what culture is, through a reinterpretation of what culture does. We argue that the semiotic productivity of culture makes groups – which we call demes – and demes make knowledge (what we call the externalism hypothesis); and the interaction of demes makes newness – new knowledge. …”
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Les mémoires d’une automobile (pas) comme les autres. La Coccinelle VW et ses mises en histoire by Pierre LANNOY

“…The article then details four memorial channels by which the Beetle is given a history : a hagiographic channel, in which it becomes an object of passion, being unique in the automotive history ; an academic channel, in which it is seized as an object of research calling for epistemologically founded interpretations ; a political channel, in which the Beetle calls for moral judgments on the part of culturally situated individuals ; an iconic channel, transforming it in a semiotic object feeding aesthetic interpretations. …”
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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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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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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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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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Visualization of the Book: Graphic Metaphors in Art Decoration of Ukrainian Church Editions of the Baroque Epoque by Olena Kurhanova

“…It claims that the book art of this period is marked by generous use of symbolic and allegoric visual images which play metaphorical role in general structure of the book. Structural-semiotical exploration of title pages, frontispieces, and illustration cycles in more than one hundred reeditions of Ukrainian church books of 17th–18th centuries enabled us to single out the main types of structure forming visual metaphors. …”
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Genghis Khan in Folklore Legends of the Mongolian Peoples: Mythological Framework of Memory by Aleksand V. Isakov

“…Comparative-typological and structural-semiotic methods of folkloristics are used as the main research methods. …”
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