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2025, Jurnal Komunikasi, Malaysian Journal of Communication

This article, using the semantic cognitive approach, is to analyze the phenomena of language used by Indonesian people observed through articles published in Newspapers and Social Media. The object of this research is Bandung Mayor. He frequently reveals his ideas in an informal way but still acceptable and his ideas more often are quite interesting. One of the interesting ideas is the usage of "love". His idea of "love" is published in the articles, one is in Indonesian Newspapers and the other one is on his instagram account, entitled "Ridwan Kamil's Love Car". The revelation concept of "love" proposed by Ridwan Kamil is considered as the representative of Sundanesse people cognition. His language concepts are very interesting to be analyzed and discussed in a research. In analyzing the data, we refer to Conceptual Metaphor as proposed by Lakoff (1983), Lakoff and Johnson (1980), the mapping theory refers to Blending Theory as proposed by is referred for the image scheme. The research results show that there are two types of metaphor, i.e. conceptual metaphor and ontological metaphor. In conceptual metaphor, the concept of "love" appears as the containment that needs the container; love is the destination in which it needs a car in order to reach the place; love is mental disease; and love is a fragile sewing thread. In ontological metaphor, it shows that love is a movement to go forward.

2025, Jurnal Komunikasi, Malaysian Journal of Communication

2025, Revista Jurídica Mario Alario D´Filippo

El presente texto aborda, a modo de ensayo, una revisión analítico-histórica del Derecho Romano y sus aportaciones sustanciales en la tradición jurídica de occidente. Así, sustenta la tesis de que existen otras instituciones y conceptos que han transcendido los contenidos del derecho privado para irradiar la práctica judicial y las instituciones básicas de la cultura jurídica en occidente.

2025, Rumores

O que significa hoje fazer crítica midiática? Abordaremos o tema em duas vetorizações: a primeira entendendo a crítica a partir de Judith Butler; a segunda situando o midiático da crítica a partir da psicanálise, considerando os conceitos de sintoma e fantasia. Como objeto concreto, examinaremos o tema da polarização pós-2013 no país a partir da questão dos afetos. Como dar conta dessa polarização? Como a teoria do discurso, a psicanálise e a semiótica tensiva podem colaborar na tarefa de situar essa polarização a partir da política e do circuito dos afetos? Crítica midiática, psicanálise, política, afetos.

2025, Journal of Avant-Garde Studies

From 1970 until the end of that decade, a series of exhibitions in Yugoslavia was dedicated to a phenomenon called "elementary" or "primary" painting. The works featured in these shows were abstract, often monochromatic, and objectlike. In their comments about their works, the artists-among them Julije Knifer, Raša Todosijević, and Radomir Damnjanović Damnjan-described their approach as an utter reduction. This art would only acknowledge the reality of its physical and spiritual substance. They also laid bare the genealogy in which they inscribed themselves, indicating their affinity for artists such as Kazimir Malevich and El Lissitzky. This article asks why Suprematism provided such an attractive theoretical and artistic model for young Yugoslav artists of the 1960s and 1970s and how this specific choice can be interpreted as an aesthetic and political gesture.

2025, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

This article discusses the compound nouns in English and Uzbek and their pragmalinguistic aspects. The pragmatic features of compound nouns can serve as a sign of a clearer understanding of their meaning in the text. Differences in the... more

2025, International Journal on Social and Education Sciences

The language pyramid in the post-colonial territories as propounded by Melchers and Shaw in 2003 aptly reflects on the status of different languages in Pakistan. At the top is English, with its heritage as a colonial language. Then is the ‘national’ language Urdu which has nationalist value and is spoken by the majority as a lingua franca; while at the bottom of this hierarchy are the regional languages and their dialects. This hierarchy of languages has deeper repercussions enrooting stratification based on social class and commodification of languages. In this paper, this claim is substantiated by semiotic analysis of a social media text− an amateur video clip that went viral on Facebook in January 2021− in which owners of a high-end cafe in Islamabad mock their manager’s English. The video is only the tip of the iceberg of the symbolic and linguistic capitals of English in Pakistan. This analysis is further pleaded by the literature on the critical approach to language policy and...

2025, Proceedings of the The First International Conference On Islamic Development Studies 2019, ICIDS 2019, 10 September 2019, Bandar Lampung, Indonesia

The development of Corporate Social and Environmental Responsibility (TJSLP) is now followed by the strengthening of the existence of TJSLP into normative obligations in various countries, including Indonesia. From the philosophical aspect, the TJSLP in Indonesia has been embedded in the soul of Pancasila and the 1945 Constitution. The state shall protect all citizens, realize general prosperity, educate the life of the nation, and participate in implementing the world order. The national economy and social welfare must be regulated by the state as much as possible for the welfare of the people. Various laws and regulations reinforce it, i.e.

2025, Media and Communication

In this article, I will work on the idea of Pre-Truth (as opposed to post-truth) and Semiological Guerrilla (as opposed to fake news), claiming that these two concepts are better equipped to explain what is happening in our contemporary societies, especially if we take into account the world of media and communication. In the first part of the article, I will frame the problems of fake news and post-truth within the dynamics characterizing the relationships between knowledge and power. Taking into account Foucault and Latour’s perspectives, I argue that the problem of fake news can be understood as a new kind of relationship between these two instances, previously stably coupled and in the hands of institutional power. Later, I will deal with three different meanings of “fake news,” that are usually blended and confused: (a) serendipity, (b) false belief, and (c) mendacity. Consequently, I will deal with the problem of “Semiological Guerrilla Warfare,” arguing that the new shape of ...

2025, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique

In this paper, I will deal with the way linguistics and semiotics focus on person and subjectivity in language. I start from two different meanings of the “person” word and from Benveniste and Latour’s theories of enunciation. Later, I deal with the problem of subjectivity in language and I connect it to two different views: Benveniste’s idea that subjectivity is grounded on the “I” and Guillaume’s idea of a primacy of the “he”. Starting from the Iliad and from the semiotic idea of subject, I take side for Guillaume and Latour’s theory: it is the delocutive structure of the “he” which, in language, expresses subjectivity, namely the capacity of the subject to make himself the object of his reflections and of his words.

2025, Intercultural Pragmatics

In this paper I will try to outline the reasons why, in order to understand the life and the nature of meaning, the semiotic tradition has always thought that it was better not to separate semantics and pragmatics. I will first reconstruct the history of this idea, grounded in Pragmatism and in Structural Linguistics. Later, I will deal with its first formulation in A Theory of Semiotics by Umberto Eco. In the second part of the paper, I will work on the idea by Ferdinand de Saussure that meanings are values, that is, indeterminate entities whose identity is determined only through reciprocal determination. I will claim that this idea is the importation in linguistics of Leibniz’s principles of the differential calculus. In the final part of the paper, I will apply this idea to the distinction between semantics and pragmatics, claiming that meanings are better understood through a theory of modes of existence. If we understand the differential nature of meaning, we can see that mean...

2025, European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy

2025, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences

2025, How to Make Our Signs Clear

2025, International journal for the semiotics of law

In this paper, I will deal with the way linguistics and semiotics focus on person and subjectivity in language. I start from two different meanings of the "person" word and from Benveniste and Latour's theories of enunciation. Later, I deal with the problem of subjectivity in language and I connect it to two different views: Benveniste's idea that subjectivity is grounded on the "I" and Guillaume's idea of a primacy of the "he". Starting from the Iliad and from the semiotic idea of subject, I take side for Guillaume and Latour's theory: it is the delocutive structure of the "he" which, in language, expresses subjectivity, namely the capacity of the subject to make himself the object of his reflections and of his words.

2025, Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses

analyzes in this book the wonderful experiences of coming-of-age ceremonies with reference to the believers of different religions in the United States. The book is an account on the evolution of rites of passage in five major religions like Jewish bar and bat mitzvah, Christian confirmations, Muslim shahadas, Hindu sacred thread ceremonies and Zen jukai ceremonies in Buddhism by explaining the theological concepts associated with these ceremonies in a practical way. Magida interviewed well-known and influential persons coming from different spheres of life belonging to different religions to recall the experiences of their comingof-age ceremonies to find out if these ceremonies had some impact on their lives. Before starting the oral narratives, he provides biographical notes about the persons with some highlights about the ceremonies of the corresponding faith. To gather recollections from Christian faith, he interrogated TV anchor Bob Abernethy, African novelist Chinua Achebe, explorer of different religions Huston Smith, comedian Julia Sweeney and founder of the Arab-American Institute Jim Zogby. A college president Leon Botstein, New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast, rabbi Harold Kushner, writer Letty and her daughter Abigail Pogrebin, psychedelic pioneer Ram Dass, rabbi Jeffrey Salkin and Nobel Laureate Eli Wiesel have shared their feelings about Jewish rites of passage. Internationally renowned holistic guru Deepak and his son Gotham Chopra uncover the underlying meanings of the life passage rituals in Hinduism. Zen roshi John Daido Loori and leading expert on Tibetan Buddhism in the West Robert Thurman elucidate the Buddhist rituals. Coleman Barks, who translated Rumi, Dr. Yusaf Islam (former rock star Cat Stevens), and a writer and Jewish convert to Islam Michael Wolfe discuss their experiences of Islamic rituals. Only few out of these eighteen participants recognized these ceremonies as walk towards their faith or skepticism afterwards. Magida argues that life initiation ceremonies do not necessarily link the human with divine or transfer knowledge. Instead they try to transfer the possibility of knowledge, and most of the experiences explored in this book are without any spiritual reveal because these ceremonies, except in Islam where there is no as such ceremony to mark the initiation, are performed at initiation into adulthood or into faith when a child has no consciousness and deliberation into the religion due to her/his very young age. Magida says that American youth do not have such rites of passage as aboriginals perform in primal cultures. Instead their growth is marked by getting a driver's license, as men's movement leader Robert Bly thinks, or by involving in some social service project like aiding migrant workers, volunteering at food banks or building homes for the needy in Reform Judaism and Catholics. He points to certain new rituals like the Quinceanera among Hispanics and a Quaker-influenced foot-washing ceremony at Guilford College. The personalities interviewed by Magida mostly relate themselves to more than one religion or no religion at all, therefore, their views about the rites of passage in one religion as participants is an issue that needs a lot of discussion. The book does cover a lot on cultural meanings of the rites of passage ceremonies. In this sense, it could be helpful in studying the efficaciousness of rites of passage and the evolution of faith or skepticism in an individual's life. The book not only provides an essential understanding of the rites of passage in human life but also provides an opportunity to understand beliefs and practices of the religion of others and so contributes to inter-faith harmony in its own style.

2025, Open field guides series

2025, TAMGA-Turkish Journal of Semiotic Studies

TAMGA-Türkiye Göstergebilim Araştırmaları Dergisi [TAMGA-Turkish Journal of Semiotic Studies TAMGA-Journal des recherches sémiotiques de Turquie] Yıl/ Year/ Année: 3 Cilt/ Volume: 3 Sayı/ Issue/ Numéro: 1 Tarih/ Date: 30 Haziran/ June/... more

2025, TAMGA-Turkish Journal of Semiotic Studies

2025, Lampião

In the general terms of this paper, I look for to situate William James’ pragmatism in conjunction with his form of emprism. What results from this conjugation is an anti-representationalist understanding of intentionality. If considered as a synonym of intentionality in the so-called
4Es context in philosophy of mind, in particular, two meanings of sense-making indicate a distinction between phenomenology and empiricism. While enactivism represents the phenomenological perspective, I will call my approach to intentionality radical extensionism which I pay homage to James’ pragmatism and empiricism. As a conclusion of my strategy of situating the issue of sense-making (as a synonym for intentionality), the
idea is that it results from a field dynamic inherent in the very flow of experience and, therefore, incorporating an essentially empirical sense as an alternative toe nactivism.

2025, Journal of Literary Education

The object of the present paper is the functional utilisation of the artistic image in the teaching of literature in Secondary Education. The proposal for the introduction of paintings to literary education is founded on Bakhtin’s principle of dialogism. The wider spirit of the theory of dialogism allows us to detach the literary text from the solitude of its autonomy, connecting it not only to other literary texts but also to other forms of art, which unfold within a particular historical and cultural context. One example of the dialogic relationship between literature and painting could be the dialogue between Kostas Karyotakis’ poem ‘We are just some…’ and Egon Schiele’s paintings, which was deployed in a teaching session for Greek eleventh graders. The teaching course, which is described thoroughly in the article, gave prominence to the dialogic relationship between the poetic text and the artistic images on a thematic, on a style and on a sociohistorical level. It also brought ...

2025, idealkent

This study examines the work of activist artist Gordon Matta-Clark, known for his site-specific productions and performances that engage with language philosophy, everyday practices, photography, film, and architecture, through the lens... more

2025, pianob

This is an interview I did with Emanuele R. Meschini for a special issue of the Italian journal pianob (vol. 9, no. 1, 2024) on participatory art. The full issue is here: https://pianob.unibo.it/issue/view/1376

2025, ¿Por qué es de vida o muerte romper las (ínfulas) ínsulas políticas?

En la intrincadísima geografía de las luchas sociales, perviven "pequeñas islas" que flotan con "cartas de navegación" propias y como restos de naufragios ideológicos. Son ínsulas políticas hijas de la infiltración y la premeditación. Pedacitos de poder ególatra donde algunos dirigentes o partidos se encastillan con autosuficiencia, repitiendo consignas "del yo" como letanías depositarias de verdades exclusivas… la verdad revolucionaria. Son baluartes de egolatría disfrazados de trincheras. No son plataformas de emancipación; son cárceles semióticas. Y no pocas veces nichos de petulancias intragables. Todas esas ínsulas políticas no son solamente estructuras organizativas mínimas o grupos de auto-afinidad. Son dispositivos semióticos de encierro con códigos autorreferenciales y dogmas que resisten toda dialéctica y toda praxis viva. Son sectarismos petrificados con intereses borrosos o nefastos enquistados en el seno de movimiento sociales genuinos y acciones emancipadoras de mediano y largo plazo. Están ahí para descarrilarlas, en el peor de los casos, o como parásitos, que "no es lo mismo, pero es igual". Nadie consustanciado con la base se cree superior a la base. Nosotros vemos un peligro enorme en ese sectarismo que, en ese marco, es una modalidad degenerada de la semiosis política: se reduce la complejidad del mundo a un espejo interior. Se produce sentido para un auditorio previamente convencido, se habla a los convencidos con palabras fósiles, se repite el ritual del encierro simbólico bajo la apariencia de radicalidad. El sectarismo es el intento de abolir la contradicción, de hacer del antagonismo de clases una propiedad privada del discurso de unos pocos. El resultado es la esterilidad política. El sectarismo desactiva la capacidad transformadora del lenguaje, lo reduce a consigna hueca, y produce una semiosis donde el Otro no existe, o peor aún, es enemigo por principio. Es egolatría como parálisis de la historia. Opera como principio de clausura. Algunos dirigentes se construyen como marcas registradas, como si su subjetividad fuera un emblema absoluto de la verdad histórica. Se autoproclaman faros, guías, patriarcas de la Revolución. Su imagen sustituye a la colectividad; su nombre eclipsa los procesos. Esta egolatría es profundamente reaccionaria, aunque se vista de progre. En el plano de la semiosis, la egolatría cancela la dialógica. Instala una lógica-monológica, donde el único que produce sentido legítimo es el Ego iluminado. Esta modalidad simbólica no construye pueblo ni vanguardia: construye culto al espejo de sí mismos. Mayormente mediocre. Es una restauración simbólica de la monarquía en el corazón de las luchas populares. Y su autoproclamación es una ficción política que se ampara en el vacío organizativo.

2025, Linguarum Universe

The modernist literary experiment is widely credited with opening up different conceptual mechanisms whereby the other might be welcomed into the world without the risk of being appropriated by the same. In this line of thought, modernist literature can be reimagined as presenting an ethical project whose implicit aim is to dramatize the infinity of the face of the other. In Levinasian terms, the face of the other is not merely a physical appearance but an epiphany of radical alterity that disrupts the self's self-enclosed (or finite) autonomy. This article proposes, however, that conceptualizing alterity as a form of an event within writing possesses inherent limitations. Writing for high modernists becomes more than a means of expressing the self and exploring the world; it also becomes a means of exploring both the self and the world. In going "meta," writing becomes its own (play)ground of signification and, being thus, assumes an independent "logic" which abstracts itself from the pragmatic (or even ethical) concerns of radical alterity (the otherness of the other). In consequence, modernist writing becomes even more autonomous and rigid. The modernist technique of the interior monologue, therefore, turns out to be a method not only of exploring inner consciousness but also of "writing" the world and thus creating it according to an abstract set of rules and regulations (not so much unlike Heidegger). How are we to think the purported irreducibility of alterity (of the face of the other) to logic and calculability within such an artistic paradigm? This article suggests that the visible in modernist writing (especially in Joyce) becomes scriptible in implicitly recognizing that the world can be "written over" in advance, that is, a priori or through and as speech-in-writing (stylizing the self and the other through the interior monologue). Within this conceptual framework, we can situate the dynamics between the infinity of the face of the other and the finiteness of alterity as it becomes visible in writing through speech-in-writing. Hence, language becomes the means of actualizing alterity through limiting the otherness of the other in and through writing. Inner reality in this respect turns out to be a convention as much as the irreducible alterity of the face of the other is revealed to be finite in its linguistic "mode" of appearing. This leads us to a broader exploration of the repercussions of modernist experimentation with form and content within the context of mediating the world and thinking alterity.

2025, Uru: Revista de Comunicación y Cultura

Este artículo parte de una investigación que indaga cómo enuncian los diarios argentinos Clarín y La Nación en sus cuentas oficiales en Facebook, qué tipo de vínculos proponen allí a sus lectores/usuarios/seguidores, y cómo se ha ido transformando ello a lo largo del tiempo. Desde mediados del siglo XX hasta los primeros años 90, la prensa de información general vivió una etapa de considerable estabilidad que se vio interrumpida por el desarrollo de la Web. Tras el desembarco obligado de sus versiones online, hemos sido testigos, casi ininterrumpidamente, de las transiciones que estos medios han debido afrontar para adaptarse y contener a un público lector que, en la actualidad, concentra su atención en una diversidad de plataformas mediáticas. Situados en ese marco, se aborda aquí, específicamente, el período comprendido entre el 1 de enero de 2016 y el 31 de diciembre de 2017, en lo que atañe tanto a cantidad, tipo y frecuencia de los posteos según franja horaria, como a las conf...

2025, Galáxia (São Paulo)

Resumen Este artículo es producto de las primeras aproximaciones a los modos en que son figurados los personajes centrales de las noticias televisivas sobre delito e inseguridad en canales de televisión abierta en Argentina y su construcción en el relato como víctimas o victimarios. Se trata de un conjunto de inferencias iniciales elaboradas en el marco de un proyecto mayor titulado “De la propiedad a la recepción. Estudio integral del circuito productivo de las noticiassobre delito e inseguridad en los noticieros televisivos de mayor audiencia de la Argentina”. Se parte de la idea de figuración propuesta por Traversa (1997) y releída por Fernández y Tobi (2009), para poder identificar cadenas de operaciones respecto de un determinado régimen discursivo como construcción. Desde esta mirada, es posible reconocer ciertas recurrencias significativas en el modo en el que son figurados las víctimas y los victimarios en los discursos periodísticos televisivos que forman parte del corpus b...

2025, Research and Innovation in Language Learning

The researcher intended to find out and describe the application of the three-level guide strategy in increasing the students reading skill of narrative text. Through classroom based research, the researcher had conducted nine meetings for three cycles. The participant of this research was the seventh grade students of junior high school. 33 students of VII-2 class were involved in this research, the researcher used observations and objective tests as her instrument. The data were collected and analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively. The researcher calculated the quantitative data from tests in each cycle through Microsoft excel. The researcher used classroom observation checklist to find out the students participation in learning. There was no improvement in students reading test scores in cycles 1 and 2. However, in cycle 3, students' reading test scores increased. In cycle I the students average score was 48.78, the students average score in cycle II was 58.28, and in the ...

2025, 2010 Brazilian Symposium on Games and Digital Entertainment

There are not many initiatives in the area of game development for children with special needs, specially children with Down syndrome. The major purpose of our research is to promote cognitive development of disabled children in the context of inclusive education. In order to do so, we address aspects of interaction, communication and game design in stimulating selected cognitive abilities. By using a Human-Computer Interaction method based on the Inspection of Evaluation, it was possible to study and understand user interaction with the interface and thus examine the positive aspects as well as the communicability problems found with the JECRIPE game -a game developed specially for children with Down syndrome in pre-scholar age.

2025, Lo estético en el arte, el diseño y la vida cotidiana

According to Zavala (2016) the aesthetics of cinema is any philosophical reflection on the nature of cinema and on the experience of the film viewer. According to Aumont et al (1985) the aesthetics of cinema is the study of cinema as art and one of the aspects it presents is the analysis of films. For Lotman (1979), contemporary cinema incorporates acoustic-visual messages and extra-textual relations that add structures of very varied meaning, and allows us to define cinema as a polyphonic art. Based on the contributions of Morin (1994, 1999) and Nicolescu (2009) with the epistemology of complexity and transdisciplinarity, the analysis of the film V for Vendetta (2005), presents the understanding of dystopia as a complex social system where different levels of reality intervene.

2025, Revista de Ensino, Educação e Ciências Humanas

ResumoConvulsionado pelas mudanças violentas em todos os aspectos, o mundo pede socorro à sensibilidade humana. Esta perspectiva de caos indicou este estudo que pretende refletir sobre a possibilidade de leitura semiótica e como os Povos Nativos da América são representados nos monumentos escultóricos em alguns países da América Latina, para uma reflexão proativa de um pan-currículo aberto e libertador. Para tanto, o artigo é alicerçado em pesquisa qualitativa, por meio de livros e fotos pesquisadas na internet dos monumentos/corpora. Para tanto, a metodologia desenvolvida será captar o discurso – aqui entendido como o lugar da constituição do sentido e da identificação do sujeito na expressão escultórica dos artistas escultores e espera-se que os resultados das leituras semióticas contribuam para reforçar a importância da leitura de monumentos/esculturas. Assim, reflexões sobre a função educativa da leitura semiótica dos monumentos, do entorno do aluno, patrimônios dos cidadãos.Pal...

2025, Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies

The phenomenon of delayed marriage in society in general and in the UAE society, in particular, has become obvious. Attitudes and opinions regarding marriage have changed due to the intense evolvement of society, and the rise in education and economic levels. This study seeks to identify the factors leading to the delay of marriage among young men, from the perspective of a sample of 272 male students at Al Ain University. The descriptive analytical approach was adopted to analyze the data and identify the factors perceived as contributing to the delay of marriage. The study concludes that high dowry, in general, is one of the main factors for delaying the age of marriage among young males in Al Ain city.

2025, Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science

Alex Gillespie and Flora Cornish draw on the dialogic turn as they consider that, in order to interpret the meaning of an utterance, it is necessary to emphasize its contextual nature. Among other aspects, they address what context is and what is being done while speaking. Taking these two issues as point of departure, it is worth pondering on (1) what revolves around language and what the status of nonlinguistic semiotic systems is for the philosophers of language, (2) Umberto Eco's critique of the Philosophy of Language, which has not problematized the pre-linguistic relationship with things, and (3) how ontogenesis may shed light on this scheme where linguistic and nonlinguistic aspects are inevitably interrelated. I will reflect on the pragmatic aspects in adult-child communication at its pre-linguistic level. I will underscore the key role played by the object as a complex referent and as a tool for communication. Keywords Linguistic/Dialogic turn . Nonlinguistic semiotic systems . Object as tool of communication . The naturalized object In Sensitizing questions: A method to facilitate analyzing the meaning of an utterance, Alex Gillespie and Flora Cornish address the "dialogic turn" in line with the "linguistic turn," which I will analyze below. Although they draw heavily upon Bakhtin, they also refer to Wittgenstein, Mead and contemporary scholars like Valsiner, Wertsch and Markova, among others. According to Gillespie and Cornish, thanks to the dialogic turn, "a sophisticated understanding of human dialogue as contextual, temporal and relational" (p. 1) is developed, thanks to which the analysis unit is not the sign but the text . In this way, the "meaning is not found within an utterance, in either its logical structure or the dictionary definition of its component words, rather it is found in the relation between the utterance and what is going on" (italics in the original, p. 2). In order to interpret the meaning of a given utterance, those researchers who are

2025, Journal for the Study of Education and Development

The genesis of the communication continuum in autism constitutes a key element for understanding its development. Current prospective and longitudinal research studies face this challenge. However, it is suggested that in the construction of shared reference the path of child–object interactions must be analysed from a semiotic and dimensional perspective as of the first months of life. This article presents the axes of a study, currently under way, with siblings of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, from the Pragmatics of Object, and their associations with Ángel Rivière’s proposals.

2025, Theology

Second, counter-arguments are seldom dealt with. Swinburne argues that to have the good of being free, we must be free to choose evil; such evil is therefore compatible with a loving Creator. But might we not have been (like God?) both free and wise enough never to choose wrong? Finally, Swinburne ignores radical alternatives. He argues, from the fact that God must do all things directly (as I act directly when I move my body about), that God must be bodiless. The logical-but radical-conclusion would be that the universe is God's body, or part of it. The broad lines of Swinburne's argument seem right. As explanations of the universe go, God is the simplest, and hence (since to explain is to account for complex things in simple terms) the best. However, in attempting to do more than is possible in a book of this size-present the whole argument-Swinburne achieves less than his laudable aim: to give the flavour of a discussion that is no mere fossil, of interest only to conservative theologians, but complex, and alive. Rethinking Metaphysics, ed L. Gregory Jones and Stephen E. Fowls (Blackwell 1995), 165 pp, £13.99 pbk 'The time is right for rethinking metaphysics.

2025

Abstract: As a counterpoint to the Western notion of the Sublime, which represents Nature as a force that we, as humans, face only to be overwhelmed by its encompassing Oneness, the films produced by Studio Ghibli signify nature as a friendly neighbor. This Japanese relationality between nature and the human is illustrated lushly and with virtuosity in films such as *My Neighbor Totoro*, tapping into a rich and long-established system of aesthetics regarding landscape that is decidedly different from that put forth by Western metaphysical philosophy. Thematizing the interactive relation between nature and human beings can also be comprehended on a semiotic level in the sense that meaning takes place in the relationality itself between signifiers within any given system. This paper will explore the proposition that Studio Ghibli films foreground, through narrative techniques, a larger, more abstract philosophical investigation into relationality itself, whereas the Western Sublime se...

2025, Functional Linguistics

This paper investigates the relationship between culture and language through analyzing material and semiotic features in a context of language-in-use. The paper first discusses what is meant by ‘material’ and ‘semiotic’ context from an SFL perspective. It then investigates the way in which these two ‘senses’ of context may converge within a specific instance, affecting interaction in a subtle way and together construing a cultural phenomenon.

2025, CAADRIA proceedings

The motivation to explore Attentional Generative Adversarial Networks (AttnGAN) as a design technique in architecture can be found in the desire to interrogate an alternative design methodology that does not rely on images as starting point for architecture design, but language. Traditionally architecture design relies on visual language to initiate a design process, wither this be a napkin sketch or a quick doodle in a 3D modeling environment. AttnGAN explores the information space present in programmatic needs, expressed in written form, and transforms them into a visual output. The key results of this research are shown in this paper with a proof-of-concept project: the competition entry for the 24 Highschool in Shenzhen, China. This award-winning project demonstrated the ability of GraphCNN to serve as a successful design methodology for a complex architecture program. In the area of Neural Architecture, this technique allows to interrogate shape through language. An alternative design method that creates its own unique sensibility.

2025

Resumo de Fabiola Ballarati Chechetto para o VI Congresso Internacional da ABES, que ocorrerá de 1 a 4 de julho de 2025, na Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas da Universidade de São Paulo, no Campus Butantã, em São Paulo, capital. Este trabalho será apresentado no Simpósio: Semiótica da cultura, semiótica peirceana e o barroco como expansão: invenção sintática e natureza na América Latina, coordenado por Amálio Pinheiro (PUC-SP), Abreu Castelo Vieira dos Paxe (ISCED).

2025, LOCANA

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan hubungan antara peristiwa dan perubahan karakter tokoh dalam novel Tenggelamnya Kapal van Der Wijck karya Hamka. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah deskriptif kualitatif. Metode deskriptif kualitatif tersebut bertujuan untuk menjabarkan, menggambarkan, menguraikan, dan memaparkan suatu objek yang diteliti dengan kompleks. Fokus penelitian meliputi unsur intrinsik. Sumber data adalah novel Tenggelamnya Kapal van Der Wijck karya Hamka. Instrumen penelitian yaitu penulis selaku peneliti dan kartu pencatat data. Teknik pengumpulan data berupa teknik simak dan catat. Teknik analisis isi dan penyajian hasil data. Dari hasil penelitian disimpulkan bahwa adanya hubungan antara peristiwa dan perubahan karakter dalam novel Tenggelamnya Kapal van Der Wijck karya Hamka meliputi unsur intrinsik dari kategori peristiwa percintaan, adat istiadat, diskriminasi dan lain-lain. The purpose of this study is to describe the relationship bet...

2025

This book provides a systematic elaboration of Gurdjieff's enneagram, addressing long-standing and intractable issues. It notably refers to much work in the systems sciences, showing connections between leading 20th century authors and triadic thought. Issues of semiotics, metaphysics, aesthetics, design, activity, epistemology, psychological development, and alchemy are also elaborated upon.

2025, Educação Matemática Debate

The historical alphabetic bias in writing fragmented didactic reasoning, isolating mathematics education education and reducing it to instrumental skills. This wrongly naturalized verbal & number faculties as distinct. We contend they are... more

2025, Frontiers of Narrative Studies

This article examines the forms taken by master-and counter-narratives in fiction through a case study of Ahmadou Kourouma's first novel, Les soleils des indépendances (1968), published in English as The Suns of Independence in 1981. It focuses specifically on the third chapter, which contains the narrative of the genital excision and rape of Salimata, the main protagonist's wife and second protagonist of the novel. As Michael Bamberg and Molly Andrews remind us, "[c]ounter-narratives only make sense in relation to something else, that which they are countering" (2004: x). First, I shall examine the relation of countering in the chapter in question: it contrasts the glorious narrative of excision presented by Salimata's mother with Salimata's traumatic experience as recalled by the character herself. Then, I shall consider the master-and counter-narrative of excision from the perspective of narrativity and tellability: contrary to the mother's master-narrative, which features a relatively low degree of narrativity and tellability, the counter-narrative centered on Salimata contains all the elements making it possible to speak of an individual, prototypical narrative, therefore a counter-narrative in the proper sense. Finally, I shall ask what fiction brings to counter-narrativity: in particular, a distinctive account of "what it is like" to undergo the operation of excision. Overall, the aim of the article is to show that the interpretive frame of master-and counter-narratives allows in some cases to shed new light on what is loosely called the "message" of a fictional narrative: in this case, the denunciation of traditional practices harmful to women, with the active or internalized participation of women themselves.

2025, Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

To better design GUI for preschool users, this study suggests three icon design principles: the principle of obvious visibility, the principle of visual resemblance, and the principle of conceptual resemblance. The conceptual reasoning behind the proposed principles is borrowed from research areas of semiotics, picture-reading and neurodevelopment of children. These principles had also been applied to icon designs for the self-made story-authoring software, MyStory. With this application, the readability of the designed icons is investigated. Icon designs violating any proposed principles result in low readability. Five reasons for lower readability are proposed: unrealistic decorative designs, distorted written styles, experience void, overgeneralized association, and infrequently visible.

2025, Silverbacked: A Material and Mystical History of Reflection

You’ve looked into mirrors all your life. But what if the mirror was never meant to reflect the outside? What if it was designed to bend light, fracture truth, and open passageways? This paper isn’t about optics. It’s about recursion.... more

2025, Pakistan Journal of Gender Studies

This paper attempts to gain an understanding of the ways in which Muslim women are presented on the E-media in the broader world community by identifying and examining the linguistic and visual signifiers used in the caricatures. The sample selected for the current research work consists of 22 caricatures disseminated on the World Wide Web between years 2012 - 2013. From a theoretical perspective, the socio-cognitive approach to CDA introduced by Van Dijk (1992, 1993, 2000, 2012) on communication of ethnic biases and racial prejudices is combined with the visual semiotic model by Roland Barth (1978). The two approaches are merged to examine linguistic and visual aspects of caricatures for identifying signs which construct certain identities of Muslim women. This paper argues that in the collected caricatures the identity of Muslim women is constructed as distant and different from the (Western) social norm. The iconic images or visual identifiers used, function to transfer all the b...