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2025, Lettres Françaises

, único romance de Alain Fournier, morto prematuramente na Primeira Guerra Mundial, é considerado uma das maiores realizações da literatura francesa no século XX. Esta obra apresenta um mundo em que real e irreal se encontram e se evolam para o enlace caótico da vida e da morte, consubstanciando a eterna antítese entre felicidade e tragédia. Este ensaio apresenta uma análise freudiana do texto, na qual destacamos a presença do estranho e do sonho na novelística de Fournier.

2025

Logos has been the fundamental of human behavior. However, it often appears as diverse expressions such as reason, rationality or reasonableness at different times. It seems obvious that each of them has its own limitation relative to logos itself. Therefore, it has still been a problematic issue how to approach logos. For this reason, we will try to approach logos on the basis of the relationship among and between the three expressions.

2025, Ο Καβάφης στην εποχή του

Παρουσίαση των τεκμηρίων για τη θέση και το ρόλο της μουσικής στο έργο του Αλεξανδρινού ("Το έργο και η μουσική"). Μετά από ένα δεύτερο μέρος όπου παρουσιάζονται στοιχεία για την ανασύσταση του βιωματικού πλαισίου της καθημερινότητας του ποιητή ("Αλεξανδρινό ηχοτοπίο"), επιχειρείται μια "ακροαματική ανάλυση" τριών ώριμων ποιημάτων του Κανόνα, συνδυάζοντας την οπτική της "μουσικής ποιητικής" με στοιχεία της θεωρίας της γλωσσικής πράξης (" ΄Ποιητικότητα' και 'γλωσσική πράξη': μια ακροαματική ανάλυση των ποιημάτων 'Ίαση τάφος', 'Εν τω μηνί Αθύρ' και 'Του πλοίου' ").

2025, 大阪大学大学院人間科学研究科紀要

This article is the fourth (Part IV) of a series of six to eight parts. Alloying philosophy, psychoanalysis, and cultural studies, this series seeks to articulate a relationship between the essential nature of Western philosophy’s metaphysical method of dialectics and the structure of memory in human beings. Covering Western philosophers from ancient to modern, such as Plato, Socrates, Augustine, Descartes, Kant, Heidegger, Hegel, Lacan, Derrida, and Jakobson, and quoting social, cultural, and psychopathological materials such as Sarashina Diary (the daughter of Sugawara no Takasue in 11c Japan), Funes the Memorious (Jorge Luis Borges), Norwegian Wood (Haruki Murakami), 1984 (Apple Computer television commercial), autism spectrum disorder, late capitalism, and even the Quest Atlantis boom, this series endeavors to elucidate the nature of memory in the neurotypical (NT), i.e., the so-called normal, the majority of human beings. It is only in comparison with the so-called abnormal that the so-called normal can be defined. As a conclusion, the author elucidates that it is the being of ‘the otherness’ which always and already permeates the normal and stable working of memory, and it is that which frames the structure and content of the ego. In other words, the heteronomous nature of the capability of memory and imagination of typical developed individuals will be depicted.
In Part I, I traced the position of the imagination from Augustine to Descartes, and in Part II, its position in Kant and Heidegger. In Part III, I examined Hegel’s theory of the imagination with precision. Hegel transforms the Kantian productive imagination into an imagination that makes “sign”. In this Part IV, I will examine closely what “sign” and “mechanical memory” are in Hegel, and discuss the enigma of the synchronized function of “sign-making fantasy.”
In Hegel, a “sign” is a symbol that has a meaning other than that indicated by its own sensory characteristics. Hegel gives examples of cap badges, flags, and tombstones, but in our time, one might cite the Apple trademark. Apple’s apple symbol represents an apple, but the meaning it actually communicates to people is not “apple.” While people see an apple there, they are reading another meaning into it. Hegel says the Egyptian pyramids are “sign.” A famous and interesting statement by Hegel, which Derrida also draws attention to and discusses. Pyramid is a symbolic expression that excludes any human or natural form. Hegel highly values such “sign” representations because this is how man leaves the world of natural, sensible meaning and enters the world of meaning expressed only by the human language system. Hegel says that the world of “mechanical memory” is a meaningless/senseless dimension. It is called meaningless/senseless, but it is rather the world of the universal meaning system. Man enters this world of universal meaning through the power of “sign- making fantasy”. For Hegel, “recall” and “memory” are different. Recall is the recall of sensible images, while memory is the world of meaning divorced from sensible images. Hegel does not clarify why the switch occurs from mere passive recall (the storage of mental images in “darkness”) to active imagination (the power of fantasy to manipulate mental images at will, the light that illuminates the darkness). It just happens in Hegel. Furthermore, Hegel posits without reservation that fantasy is the reason that leads us into the world of general knowledge and general memory. He does not clarify the mechanism how individual fantasies become not an arbitrary and personal delusions, but general intelligence. In the next Part V, I will work on the riddle of “sign-making fantasy” and discuss the theoretical possibility of a “pseudo-synchronic circuit” that synchronizes our fantasies, using contemporary linguistics and psychology.

2025, Osaka Human Sciences

2025

Yoksulluk ve yoksulluk bağlamında edebiyat üzerine konuşurken iki yol çıkar karşımıza. Yollardan birisi yoksulluk ve yoksunluğun edebiyattaki izlerini, yansımalarını irdelemek olurken bir diğeri yoksullar ve yoksunlar içinden edebiyata yönelmiş bireylerin tuttuğu yolu aydınlatır.
Bu iki yolun da kendine ait farklı özellikleri taşıyor olmasının yanında, yoksul ve yoksun kesim içinden çıkmış yazın ustalarının ve ozanların, sanatın toplumsallaşması, daha çok bireye ulaşma konusunda daha başarılı oldukları gözlemlenir.
Yuri Tinyanov ve Roman Jakobson’un başını çektiği biçimci ekibin edebiyata atfettiği “alışkanlıkları bozma ve ezberleri kırma” işlevi de yoksul ve yoksun kesimlerden gelen yazın ustaları ve ozanlar eliyle gerçekleşme olanağı bulur.
Yoksul ve yoksunlar üzerine dışarıdan bir bakış açısıyla ele alınan birçok yapıtta kültürel bir yetersizlikten söz edilebilir. Günümüzdeki birçok edebiyat eleştirmeninin de dilbilim konusundaki önemli çalışmalarıyla andığı, Rönesans ve Dostoyevski konusundaki çalışmalarıyla tanıdığı Mihail Bahtin, edebiyat araştırmaları üzerine kaleme aldığı bir makalesinde kültür ve edebiyat araştırmacılarının bazı konulardaki yavan ve yüzeysel tutumlarına işaret eder. “Yazarların yaratıcılıklarına önemli katkıda bulunan kültürün güçlü dip akıntıları (özellikle aşağı kültüre, halk kültürüne ait olanlar) keşfedilmemiş halde kalır ve bazen araştırmacıların bunlardan hiç haberleri bile olmaz.” (M. Bahtin, Noviy Mır Dergisi’nin Yönelttiği Soruya Cevap, Söylem Türleri, s 9)

2025

È passato un secolo dalla nascita di Riccardo Ambrosini. Nella ricorrenza, questo volume riprende quattro suoi scritti e li accompagna con il testo della sua lezione di congedo dall’insegnamento universitario. Sono testimonianze di una... more

2025, Žena koja zaustavlja satove

Priča, poglavlje romana.

2025, Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia 54 (Festschrift for Raymond Corbey, ed. S.T. Hussain & G.L. Dusseldorp

Reflections on language and metalanguage highlight the systemic power of language to generate self-referentiality and meta-referentiality, even to the point where language can be used to negotiate the different contexts and codes within which language can function. These "indexial" and autopoietic capacities are often carried by unobtrusive (e.g., "phatic") linguistic functions and can frequently express themselves in fleetingly subtle verbal interactions. Hence the reduction of language to its referential function -as habitually happens when comparing human language to other information-processing organisms and systems -ignores what is probably its most powerful systemic characteristic. This insight -the power of language and its users to become self-reflexively metacontextual -should not be overlooked in contemporary posthumanist discussions problematizing the distinction between humans and other animals, or humans and artificially intelligent machines.

2025, Canadian Slavonic Papers, Vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 311-18.

This is the second volume issued by Harvard which groups Roman Jakobson's essays in some sort of thematic order and, unlike the Selected Writings in eight volumes, presents all the essays in English. Reprinted in Reprinted in Margaret... more

2025, Canadian Slavonic Papers, Vol. 34, nos. 1-2, 164-66.

2025, Canadian Slavonic Papers, Vol. 27, no. 3, 358-59.

2025

Karagöz oyunlarında türlü şekillerde ortaya çıkan şiddet eylemlerinin nedeni tartışmalıdır. İlk akla gelen sebep şüphesiz Karagöz ve Hacivat arasındaki çatışma, zıtlık yahut uyuşmazlık olacaktır. Karagöz temiz ruhlu, pratik zekalı; dilde, ahlâkta, davranışlarda daima iyiden ve güzelden hoşlanan, halkın ahlak anlayışının ve sağduyusunun temsilcisi sayılabileceği gibi başından sıklıkla fırlayan yuvarlak ışkırlağı, yuvarlak sakalı ve kamburu ile kaba bir görünüşe sahip sabırsız, hilekâr, düzenbaz, nefsine düşkün, cahil ve saldırgan biri olarak da değerlendirilir. Aynı şekilde Hacivat, Karagöz'e yaptığı iyiliklere karşılık sürekli nankörlük gören; farklı lisanlara mahir, medresede tahsil görmüş, dürüstlüğün, faziletin, inceliğin, zarifliğin, tek kelimeyle iyi olan ne varsa onun timsali bir karakter addedilebileceği gibi düzenin adamı, dalkavuk, çıkarcı, pazarlıkçı; az buçuk tahsil ettiği ilim ile sürekli gösteriş yapan, Çelebi'nin ayakçısı, Karagöz'ün babasına ve karısına dahi hakaret edecek kadar edepsiz, işsiz güçsüz bir ukala olarak da görülür. Bu çelişkili yapı Karagöz ve Hacivat'ın tipten ziyade karaktere yakın olduklarını göstermektedir. Karagöz'ü ve Hacivat'ı karşılıklı olarak konumlandırırken mevzu şiddet olduğunda deliller Karagöz'ün aleyhinedir. Zira şiddet içeren eylemler büyük oranda Karagöz tarafından Hacivat'a yöneliktir. Hatta oyunlar Karagöz ve Hacivat'ın boğuşması ile başlar, Karagöz'ün Hacivat'ı tokatlaması ile biter. Sebep çökmekte olan bir imparatorluğun insan çeşitliliği merkezinde aydın-halk çatışması sayıldığı vakit Karagöz ve Hacivat arasındaki aydın-halk tanımlaması net olmadığı için sağlam bir zemin edinilemeyecektir. Şiddeti, trajedi türünün bir yansıması olarak geleneksel teamüllere bağlamak yahut toplumsal yapının kurban ritüelleri ve katharsis ile ilişkilendirmek de mümkün görünmemektedir. Zira gölge oyunu trajedi yahut dram değildir, güldürme amaçlıdır ve Jakob'un ifadesiyle ahlakı çocuklar için hesaplanmış gibi görünmektedir. Oyunundaki şiddet eylemlerinin sayısı, çatışmaların kanlı olmaması, ölüm ile alakasız olması ve hatta gözyaşı dahi içermemesi gölge oyunun teorik altyapısını kurban ve katharsis kavramlarına karşı dikkatli bir biçimde konumlandırmayı gerektirir. Ne Karagöz ne de Hacivat iyi-kötü ayrımı ile karşılıklı konumlandırılabilir. İkisi de oyundan oyuna değişen işlevlerde karakter kazanırlar. Aynı şekilde olaylar bazen dramatik olsa da kathartik tesir uyandıracak yapıya sahip değildirler. Bu bağlamda Karagöz'deki şiddet eylemlerini, ispatlamaya çalışacağımız üzere, konu geçişlerini net biçimde vurgulayan sıfırlamalar yahut hakarete karşı çıkış, yanlış anlaşılmalarla uzayan iletişim sorunlarını vurgulama, tehdit, muhtelif sebeplerle cezalandırma, intikam, baştan savma gibi durumları pekiştiren tepkiler olarak görmek daha mantıklı olacaktır. İncelemede Karagöz üstatlarından, asıl adı Mehmet Muhittin Sevilen olan, Hayalî Küçük Ali tarafından yazıya geçirilmiş 15 Karagöz oyunu esas alınmıştır. Locke, Leibniz ve Mill'in görüşleri; Grice'ın konuşan tasavvuru; Austin ve Searle'ün perlokasyon tanımı; Jakobson'un iletişim modeli ve Bühler'in Organon Modeli birleştirilerek bir analiz yöntemi ortaya konmaya çalışılmış, analiz neticesinde şiddetin türü, kılıcı, etkilenen, şiddetin sebebi, eyleme eşlik eden yanıt, şiddet öncesi tehdit, anlamın istikameti, konuşan ve konuşulan iç içeliği, kodun çözümlenmesi, kombinasyonseleksiyon seçimi, perlokasyonel çözümleme incelenerek şiddet eylemlerin sıfırlama yahut pekiştirici tepki oldukları ispatlanmaya çalışılmıştır.

2025, Slovo a slovesnost

After several years, I’ve returned to a key concept in literary theory and film historiography: the (aesthetic) norm—how it’s understood, how it has evolved, and why it matters. In the Czech aesthetic tradition, the notion of aesthetic... more

2025, Descripción fonológica de la lengua paʔipá:y [tesis licenciatura]

La tesis es una descripción de la fonología de la lengua paʔipá:y desde un enfoque estructural-funcional-generativo (estilo Valiñas). El trabajo está estructurado en diez capítulos a través de los cuales contextualizo la lengua paʔipá:y,... more

2025, Cadernos de Literatura em Tradução (USP)

2025

Pemikiran pascakolonialisme Homi K. Bhabha berangkat dari realita hidup masa kecilnya. Setelah menempuh pendidikan tinggi, teori pascakolonialisme Edward Said dan tulisan Frantz Fanon menggugah dirinya. Perkenalan Bhabha dengan buah-buah pemikiran pascastrukturalis seperti Jacques Derrida dengan dekonstruksinya dan konsep wacana serta kuasa dari Michel Foucault memperkaya analisisnya. Psikoanalisis radikal Jacques Lacan dengan penekanan pada bahasa yang bermuara dari Sigmund Freud dan logika linguistik Roman Jakobson membantu. Melalui wacana pascakolonialnya, Bhabha merevisi pemikiran Said dan Spivak yang tendensius pada salah satu pihak dengan melihat ambivalensi dalam diri colonizer dan colonized sehingga terbentuklah ‘ruang ketiga’ sebagai wahana metafisik berlangsungnya perlawanan oleh colonized. Bentuk perlawanan tersebut dijelaskan melalui hibriditas dan mimikri. Studi terhadap wacana pascakolonialitas Bhabha dapat diterapkan pada situasi dan konteks historis maupun progresif dari sebuah bangsa, khususnya Indonesia.

2025, İsmet Özel ve “Bir Yusuf Masalı” -Gelenek, Arayış, Benlik-

İsmet Özel’in, modern Türk şiirinin gelenekle temâsına örnek oluşturabilecek nitelikte olan, kendisinin son ve artık tek uğraşı olan eseri olduğunu ilan ettiği Bir Yusuf Masalı şiiri,2 içerdiği anlamlar ve kendinden mülhem başka tartışmalara alan açabilecek mahiyeti bakımından çok önemli bir şiirdir. İsmet Özel şiirinde daima ön planda olan varoluşçu tutum ve anti-modern felsefe, içinde bulunulan modern muhayyilenin dönüştürülmesine kullanılmakla birlikte, bir diğer açıdan onun araçsallaştırılmasını ve gelenek ile modernin birleştirilmesini doğurur. Bu çıkarıma imkan tanıyan en önemli eseri sayılabilecek Bir Yusuf Masalı şiiri, masal ve şiir geleneğinde kendine kalıcı bir yer edinmiş Hüsnü Yusuf masalının varyantlarıyla birlikte değerlendirildiğinde, bazı benzeşliklerin kurulabildiği görülür.3 Bu anlamda Hüsnü Yusuf masalının ana iskeletine ve özüne sadık kalan bir hikaye olarak Bir Yusuf Masalı, geleneği devralmaktadır. Bunun yanında, metinlerarasılık literatürüne fazlaca referans vermeyi imkanlı kılacak kadar zengin çağrışımların varlığı, metinlerarasılık konusuna da bir bakış atmayı gerektirir. Modern bir yöntem olarak metinlerarasılık, metinlerarası okumayı yöntemsel olarak mümkün kılan modern sanat biçimi içinde değerlendirilmeli, modernite öncesi üretilen sanat eserleri ile modern sanat biçimleri arasında bir paralellik gözetmenin epistemolojik ve metodolojik hatalar barındırabileceği unutulmamalıdır. Ayrıca, Hüsnü Yusuf masalının bir masal olarak gelenekte yerini alması, masal türünün algılanış biçimine de atıfta bulunmayı gerekli kılmaktadır. Geleneksel mesnevi biçimini devam ettiren bir şekilde tasarlanmış Bir Yusuf Masalı, Hüsnü Yusuf masalının özünü değiştirmemekle beraber, masalın geleneksel biçiminin dışında kalan bazı müdahaleler içermektedir. Bu çerçevede onun farklarının da ortaya konması gerekmektedir.

2025, Historiographia Linguistica 50/2-3, p. 268-292

The Linguistic Circle of New York was founded in 1943 in the in the context of World War II. The focus of the present paper is on the beginnings of this academic organization, before the release of the first issue of its journal, Word.... more

2025, Toward a Work of Architecture

This paper offers a response to Danilo Udovički-Selb's discourse on the relevance of Hans-Georg Gadamer's ontological hermeneutics for architectural historiography. It was presented at his Festschrift symposium, held in the School of... more

2025

This paper concerns Roman Jakobson's essay Randbemerkungen zur Prosa des Dichters Pasternak. It provides the first transcription of the original Russian version found in Slavische Rundschau's archive and a new Italian translation.

2025, Semiotica

The analysis explores the main arguments of Noam Chomsky’s short book,Media Controlthat also reprints the monograph “The Journalist from Mars: How the ‘War on Terror’ Should Be Reported.” The problematic is Aristotelian rhetoric and Enlightenment rationality (justice) in civic discourse (Lógos) as compared to the thematic of dialogic reasonableness (Eulógos). Chomsky’s assumption of, and critique of, “old rhetoric” [Aristotle’srhētorikḗ] is followed by a discussion of Chiam Perelman’s “new rhetoric” [presocraticpoiētikḗ/epideiktikos / gērys] and his “incarnate adherence” (givingvoiceto) concept of the Universal Audience as a function of Epideictic argumentation. This is also a critique of Stephen Toulman’s neo-Aristotelian model of rhetorical “warrant” and its connection to Charles S. Peirce’s normative semiotic of the “argument cycle.” Heidegger’s and Lakoff’s concept of discourse framing is associated with Michel Foucault’s rhetoric concept of an ethic of social discourse for the ...

2025, Language and Semiotic Studies

The French discourse model of human communication is largely an engagement of the problematic concept of enlightenment as a product of the ability to reason by thinking. The engagement as speaking and writing becomes thematic, when one considers that, the product called "reason" also should explicate the process wherein the conscious experience of being is essentially "reasonable" in doing as listening and reading. The engaged analysis of reason differentiates among parole, discours, langue, and langage as a synthesis of logic mediating rhetoric and grammar as models of expression and perception. The method is known as the trivium in the Medieval universities of Europe, subsequently adopted as a pedagogy throughout Europe, and last, adopted by C. S. Peirce as a foundational semiotic methodology for science (methodeutic). The influence of the human science adaptations emerges in France with the philosophic cross-over and intertwined (chiasm) positions of Existentialism, Phenomenology, Structuralism, and Semiology. Doing the reasonable requires metaphor and metonymy, simile and synecdoche in the service of expression, yet, it also demands the perception of their respective counterparts in allegory, analogy, allegoresis, and aphorism. The human journey from thinking to speaking to doing and the return (renvoi) is one of ingenuity made eloquent in the face of crisis. It was so for the Ionian enlightenment, it was so for the European enlightenment, and it is so for us.

2025, Teorie vědy / Theory of Science

Conceptual frameworks are instruments which allow a holistic approach to the analysis-and sometimes to the conditioned forecasting-of social processes. As such, it necessarily goes beyond the boundaries of particular disciplinary perspectives. The text presents Tondl's and Ostrom's definitions of the term, followed by three examples of application on which the author participated: a teleonomic conceptual framework; formation and realization of human potential in the process of social reproduction; and a model of Czech society's development and modernization in the global context. On this basis, it concludes with an extended analysis of the functions of conceptual frameworks in the theory and practice of public policy as a relatively young social science discipline.

2025, Finishing in Architecture: Polishing, Completing, Ending

Soon coming from Routledge: Finishing in Architecture: Polishing, Completing, Ending, eds., Paul Emmons, Marcia Feuerstein, and Negar Goljan. One of the chapters is my essay, “Building as New Beginning: The Absolute Negativity of the Maison Dom-ino,” in which I propose a new basis of the modernity of Le Corbusier’s influential Maison Dom-ino project from 1914, which he conceived of as a constructional system for refugee housing during World War I. Borrowing G.W.F Hegel’s doctrine of “absolute negativity” from his Science of Logic (1816), as well as Dieter Henrich’s account of “autonomous negation” as the “key” to understanding Hegel’s Logic, I critique established formalist interpretations of the Maison Dom-ino, most notably by Colin Rowe and Peter Eisenman, as a finished work of architecture. I argue that the becoming of any possible architecture in the Maison Dom-ino implies the passing over of the system into life--a process that would generate different architectures through the different lives that would appropriate that system to create their own individual dwellings (reflecting the logical structure of the dynamic of "autonomous negation," in which self-referentiality and self-differentiation are mutually implicated). The Maison Dom-ino, as architecture, in other words, requires different architectures relative to different lives. Architecture in Le Corbusier's vision is thus deferred beyond the figure of the architect, as taken from the Renaissance, Albertian tradition. It would never reach a state of completion so long as different lives would be able to appropriate the system; rather, the Maison Dom-ino brings the tradition from which it separates (in response to specific historical circumstances) to an end, and in so doing, articulates architecture's true essentialism. The Maison Dom-ino is, in this way, modern.

2025

Qu’était-ce que la « littérarité » ? (Contribution a l’histoire d’un concept – Première partie)

2025

O que foi “literariedade”? (Contribuição para a história de um conceito – Primeira parte)

2025

Nella sua parabola scientifica e intellettuale Renato Poggioli ha frequentato, come slavista, comparatista e traduttore, svariate lingue e letterature, dall'arte simbolista e d'avanguardia risalendo -in un personalissimo percorso à rebours -alle origini di generi e temi radicati nella tradizione classica e premoderna 1 . Detto ciò, egli rimane prevalentemente un modernista, con interessi che insistono su autori e poetiche di Otto e primo Novecento 2 . Tanto più interessante è allora prendere in esame l'unica sua incursione di rilievo nella tradizione slava medievale, da tutti i punti di vista a lui meno familiare e di cui testimonia l'edizione italiana dello Slovo o pъlku Igorevě (d'ora in avanti: Slovo), uscita per i tipi einaudiani con il titolo di Cantare della gesta di Igor (oltre: Cantare) 3 . Opera fra le più famose e studiate del medioevo slavo orientale, come noto Slovo è un poemetto anonimo composto a quanto pare sullo scorcio del XII secolo e incentrato su un episodio coevo (e del tutto secondario) degli scontri tra i principi della Rus' -in questo caso guidati a una rovinosa sconfitta militare da Igor' Svjatoslavič, signore di Novgorod-Seversk -e i nomadi cumani della steppa. Tanto elaborata sul piano stilistico quanto difficile da inquadrare dal punto di vista del genere (oscillante tra epico, lirico, panegirico, pubblicistico, e con sezioni tenute insieme da un filo espositivo fragilissimo), quest'opera rappresenta per gli interpreti un autentico "rompicapo" 4 , anche a motivo della sua posizione affatto isolata nel contesto della letteratura slava orientale antica. A ciò si aggiunga il problema della datazione, che fin dalla scoperta dell'unico testimone noto (un codice miscellaneo del XVI secolo, poi andato perduto) ha diviso gli studiosi tra i fautori della genuinità del testo e gli scettici, convinti invece che si tratti di una compilazione tarda, se non di un clamoroso falso 5 . Lasceremo naturalmente da parte tutti questi aspetti particolari, estranei agli scopi del presente saggio. Ciò che interessa mettere a fuoco è piuttosto

2025, Working paper

This paper introduces two neologisms: semiote and semiont. I will argue that these metonyms for "sign" and "sign-system" are useful and necessary to the Semiotic Act.

2025

This paper introduces, describes, exemplifies and tells the story of two new poetic forms based on permutations. Braided Bellringing PH4 poems use permutations at the level of words and phrases, while Anagrammatic, Anglo Saxon-inspired poems use permutations at the level of letters and spellings. The author discusses formal poetry in terms of an optimal balance between enabling constraints and creative freedom, and contextualizes rule-based mathematical poetry and wordplay. There is a discussion of opportunities for embodied, movement-based learning experiences supporting the development of mathematical understanding through collaborative performances of PH4 poems. Poetic forms: Enabling Constraints In poetry, as in all the arts, mathematics and other creative realms, the emergence of new works and ideas thrives on an optimal interaction between free play and what have been called ‘enabling constraints’. Davis, Sumara and Simmt write about enabling constraints as a core notion in co...

2025, Stred

This paper offers a contextualization of the socio-intellectual and epistemological
position occupied by Roman Jakobson and the Prague Linguistic Circle
in interwar Czechoslovakia. It does so by emphasizing the systematic role of Russian and Ukrainian émigré communities, and proposing a partial reconstruction of the intellectual network in which Jakobson and the Prague Linguistic Circle
were involved. This contextualizing effort strives to underscore how
Jakobson and the Prague Linguistic Circle were not only the agents, in Czechoslovakia, of a major international scientific project – the development of phonology and modern linguistics –, but also the direct product of the local interactions – across the concrete urban spaces and squares of Prague – of a whole spectrum of “minor” or “national” traditions, from Russian social philosophy and Eurasianism to Austrian (Brentanian and Neo-Herbartian) psychology or Czech positivism. In particular, the paper highlights the “triangulated” nature of intellectual exchanges in Prague, which played out not only as bilateral, explicit dialogues, but also through a pattern of indirect intersections facilitated by the overlapping participation of many actors in otherwise distinct groups or circles.

2025

A business case is a formal investment document with a structured overview of relevant information that provides a rationale and justification of an investment. Business cases have become popular as part of managing value creation in information systems (IS) projects. Nevertheless, business cases are often poorly communicating the rationale and justification of the value to be gained from IS investments. Against this backdrop, we investigate how an IS business case can communicate well when seen through the lens of semiotics. Semiotics is the study of how meaning is generated and interpreted through signs. In this paper, we use semiotics to analyze an IS business case on the digitization of diplomas at a Danish University. Our analysis shows that its (1) addresser and addressee should be explicitly and implicitly identifiable; (2) self-referentiality helps set the context and allow uncertainties in the message; (3) a template instigates the medium and codes for value. We discuss the contribution of our findings to research on IS business cases.

2024, Not the American Comparative Literature Association State of the Discipline

Preface: How Did Comparative Literature Fall From Its Apex in the 1980s? (a political cartoon) reads like a parody of a "serious" contribution and collapses under its tired witticisms, not to mention its numerous typos. It is certainly political, and cartoonish, but unfit for a State of the Discipline Report. This submission is a very broad, unfocused, and fragmentary overview of the struggles of contemporary theory/Theory and Comparative Literature. The author tends to revisit some of the old points in the decades-long debate about the discipline, which do not add much value to this paper (excuse the tautology). The facetious and often conversational tone adopted by the author does not improve it either. Whatever the strengths and shortcomings of this piece may be (which for some reason are never mentioned), the State of the Discipline Report is not the right venue for it.

2024, Stato Omertoso e Golpista

Se avessero decrittato gli anagrammi non appena in possesso delle lettere di Aldo Moro – com'era pienamente possibile con le risorse informatiche del 1978 – sarebbe stato naturale e agevole approfondire i seguenti aspetti:
1. chi era la “spia punita arma” che radiotelegrafava;
2. chi erano i “dirigenti” dall’altro capo della ricetrasmittente (in via Gradoli, fra 20 appartamenti del SISDE);
3. come giustificavano gli investigatori il proprio comportamento omertoso.
Per 45 anni nessuno ha potuto sollevare tali obiezioni. Ora che gli anagrammi sono decifrati e le stesse obiezioni si manifestano in tutta la loro virulenta concretezza, si tace. E' inaccettabile.
Sarebbe sufficiente un quarto d'ora, quindici minuti, con un moderno supercomputer smentire o confermare gli anagrammi. Lo Stato tace.

2024, Очерки истории языка русской поэзии XX века : Грамматические категории. Синтаксис текста / [М.Л. Гаспаров, Ж.А. Дозорец, И.И. Ковтунова, Н.А. Кожевникова, Е.В. Красильникова, О.Н. Панченко, Т.В. Скулачева] ; Российская академия наук. Институт русского языка. – Москва : Наука, 1993. – 240 с.

Коллективная монография представляет собой вторую книгу продолжающегося издания (первая вышла в 1990 г.) и посвящена эволюции грамматики поэтического языка, взаимодействию грамматики со стиховыми факторами, выражению поэтической семантики... more

2024, Voces eclipsadas: una mirada hacia las nuevas poéticas corporales

(ES) ¿Puede la poesía —en particular, la poesía contemporánea— constituir un discurso de pensamiento alternativo al de la razón lógica e instrumental? En este ensayo se pretende reflexionar sobre el lugar intersticial que ocupa la poesía... more

2024, Revista argentina de historiografía lingüística

2024, Images

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2024, Silvia Cannizzo

The aim of this paper is to describe the genealogy and the evolution of the concept of ‘technique’ within the theoretical-linguistic thought of Antonino Pagliaro (1898-1973) between the Sommario di linguistica arioeuropea (1930) and the Dizionario di Politica (1940). The notion of ‘technique’ is a conceptual locus in which it is possible to measure the scientific operation initiated by Pagliaro, whose theoretical consequences concern the delimitation of the object and the aims of the discipline of linguistics within a broader cultural horizon.

2024, Književnost u dijalogu

Ovaj rad istražuje strukturu priče "Nož sa drškom od ružinog drveta" iz zbirke Grobnica za Borisa Davidoviča Danila Kiša u svetlu teorijskih razmatranja o ulozi Jakobsonovog principa ekvivalentnosti u organizaciji poetskih i proznih tekstova. U radu se ilustruje kako Kiš koristi princip ekvivalentnosti na način koji značajno prevazilazi upotrebu lajtmotiva u narativnim tekstovima, te kako se organizacija priče približava onome što Jakobson (citirajući Džerarda Menlija Hopkinsa) naziva "neprekidnim paralelizmom" karakterističnim za poeziju, a da pritom ne preuzima druge karakteristike lirske proze. Iako ima brojne odlike detektivske priče, uključujući zločin u središtu zapleta, pitanja o krivici žrtve i neizvesnu sudbinu izvršioca, "Nož sa drškom od ružinog drveta" značenjsku složenost u najvećoj meri duguje brižljivo građenom nizu paralelizama. Pošto je na početku uveo termine teljatina i kindžal, nagoveštavajući tako temu priče, Kiš uspostavlja simbolički niz koji povezuje Mikšin zanat, dranje živog tvora, dranje astrahanske jagnjadi i smrt Hane Kšiževske kao svojevrsnog Jagnjeta Božijeg.

2024, Journal of Al Quds Open University

The purpose of this study is to explore the impact of type I diabetes on the executive functions of Qatari adolescents. Thirty adolescents from Qatari schools and their parents (n =30) have volunteered for the study. We assigned adolescents purposively to 2 groups; Diabetics (n = 15) and Healthy Controls (n = 15) based on their medical history. Then we have compared the performance of the 2 groups on a number of executive functions; namely inhibition (Stroop Test), planning (the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test), short-term memory and working memory (WISC-IV Digit Span Task), and flexible thinking (the Color Trails Test). The findings of the study show statistical differences in short-term memory, working memory, some components of inhibition and flexible thinking with Diabetics scoring significantly lower than Healthy Controls. We observed no statistical differences between the two groups in planning. Further, parents’ rating of their child executive functions using the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF Parent Form) show statistical differences between the rating of parents of Diabetic children and parents of Healthy Controls, with parents of Diabetics rating their children’s executive functions significantly lower suggesting a heightened perception of hindered executive functions in diabetic adolescents.

2024, Gestures. Approaches, Uses, and Developments.

Overcoming the dualism between knowledge and communication should be considered one of the major advancements that has followed from pragmatism. This chapter tries to explain the reasons for this and to advance some proposals that would make this pragmatist achievement better known. After a quick review of the relationship between knowledge and communication, I propose an attentive analysis of Peirce's semiotics to help understand that all kinds of knowledge always exhibit a dialoguing semiotic structure, namely, a semiotic structure that is intrinsically open to others' intervention. The second part of the chapter proposes to complete the overcoming of dualism by reading communication as a form of synthetic knowledge within a conception of synthesis as action, in which we recognize an identity through changes.

2024

Language is a complex and multifaceted tool that serves various functions in human communication. It is not only a medium for conveying information but also a means for expressing emotions, maintaining social bonds, and regulating behavior. The study of the functions of language helps us understand how people use language in different contexts and for different purposes. These functions are central to both the everyday use of language and the therapeutic interventions in fields like audiology and speech-language pathology.

2024, Figures of Chance II

Chance in Theory and Practice proposes a multidisciplinary analysis of cultural phenomena related to notions of chance and contingency. Alongside its transhistorical companion volume (Figures of Chance I), it considers how the projective and predictive capacity of societies is shaped by representations and cultural models of a reality that is understood, to varying degrees, to be contingent, unpredictable, or chaotic. This volume reevaluates the role played by figurative representations of chance in contemporary discourses about chance and contingency. Written by seven interdisciplinary teams, and encompassing philosophy, literature, history of science, sociology, mathematics, cognitive science, information science, and art history, this text puts scientific conceptions of chance into dialogue with their contemporary literary and artistic representations. It thus brings out the central role played by art in the human perception of chance, and in our methods for projecting the future, in order to better understand contemporary human attitudes in the face of risk.