Albania’s socialist regime—the last socialist government in Europe—ensued in 1992. Methods I apply a social semiotic analysis of visual communication drawn from the work of Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwen. 13 By offering a “grammar of visual design
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In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
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- 01 Sep 2017
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- Research Article
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- 69–85 (17 total)
Gresham's Law, Conceptual Semantics, and Semiotics of Authoritarianism
Do “Bad” Concepts Drive Out “Good” Ones?
Kirill Postoutenko
The aim of this article is to explore to what extent the rule of economics commonly known as Gresham's law (“bad money drives out good money”) can be extrapolated to verbal language (“bad concepts drive out good concepts”). Consequently, the goal of this article is twofold. First, for Gresham's law to be applied simultaneously to money and language, its unfortunate (“good”/“bad”) and obscure (“drives out”) wording should be clarified. Second, one should identify the contexts in which the validity of the law could be assessed best, and run a very preliminary test. For this purpose, the circulation of the adjective (“hard”, “strong”, or “stable” in Russian) in the word combination (“hard currency”) in use in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s was scrutinized.
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Jun 2014
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- 1–23 (23 total)
‘Coming To Look Alike’
Materializing Affinity in Japanese Foster and Adoptive Care
Kathryn E. Goldfarb
and fostering are not easily recognized as kinship. I suggest that material resemblance is taken up as a pragmatic semiotics ( Silverstein 1993 ; Stasch 2009) through which people self-reflexively interpret the signs that count as relatedness
Death of a Statesman – Birth of a Martyr
Martyrdom and Memorials in Post–Civil War Lebanon
Are John Knudsen
extended: the public demand for the truth about his murder came to be interpreted as seeking the truth, not only for Hariri but for ‘all the bloody incidents of the past’ ( Haugbolle 2006: 68 ). Thus, in a semiotic sense, seeking the ‘truth’ behind Hariri
In Anthropology of the Middle East
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- 01 Dec 2016
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- 1–17 (17 total)
Introduction
(De)materializing Kinship—Holding Together Mutuality and Difference
Kathryn E. Goldfarb and Caroline E. Schuster
kinship in order to explore two interrelated concepts that are of vital importance to understanding the wider stakes of relatedness today: the politics of value and semiotics. Put another way, we put forward a perspective on materiality rooted in
Athar Haj Yahya
Approach This study employs a qualitative methodology suitable for analyzing and interpreting the linguistic and semiotic landscape of the Umm al-Fahm Art Gallery. We apply the case study method in focusing on a single case . This case was purposefully
In Israel Studies Review
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- 01 Mar 2021
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- Research Article
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- 68–91 (24 total)
Maryamossadat Mousavi and Pyeaam Abbasi
This study explicates, in what follows, how a fresh and deeper understanding of Shakespeare's Roman play Coriolanus (c. 1608) can be acquired by employing the core theoretical concepts of existential semiotics. The article argues that the
Introduction
Communities Reimagining Sharedness in Belief and Practice
Sarah Hillewaert and Chantal Tetreault
, semiotic, and embodied practices as signs of belonging, however, has also revealed that individuals can strategically mobilize manners of speaking and acting (e.g., use particular vocabularies, discourses, or bodily practices) to perform or claim belonging
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2021
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- 129–136 (8 total)
The New Spanish Memory Comics
The Example of Cuerda de presas
Anne Magnussen
Since the end of the 1990s, more and more Spanish comics have focused on the recent Spanish past, including the memory of the Civil War (1936–1939) and the succeeding dictatorship. This article offers an analysis of a particular comics volume, Cuerda de presas (2005) by Jorge García and Fidel Martínez, and discusses the way in which it interprets the role of the past in Spanish society thirty years after the political transition to democracy. I argue that Cuerda de presas participates in the questioning of the dominant memory about the past. It does this by undermining narrative coherence and by pointing to the plural and unstable characteristics of memories. Charles Peirce's semiotics constitutes the framework for the analysis, according to which there is a dynamic relationship between Cuerda de presas and Spanish society.
In European Comic Art
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- 01 Mar 2014
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- Research Article
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- 56–84 (29 total)
Educating for Nationhood
A Semiotic Reading of the Memorial Hall for Victims of the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders
Patrizia Violi
This article analyzes the Memorial Hall for Victims of the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders, opened in its present form in 2007 to commemorate the massacre perpetrated by the Japanese in 1937, when in the course of six weeks a significant number of harmless civilians were brutally slaughtered. The memorial is a highly complex semiotic object: it includes a large museum but is also, and perhaps above all, a huge thematic park that occupies an extremely large surface area of seventy-four thousand square meters. Through a close reading of the site, this article seeks to show how the Nanjing Memorial, more than serving the function of conservation and transmission of a tragic, traumatic memory, is mostly a monument to Chinese nationhood, an important step in the construction of a new national identity.
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
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- 01 Sep 2012
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- 41–68 (28 total)