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Lotman’s semiotic theory of culture or Laclau’s political ontology?
2018
AbstractThe present article concentrates on the main discrepancies that should arise in the discussion between Lotman’s semiotics of culture and Laclau’s discursive theory of hegemony. Some significant – but still abstract – commonalities conceal fundamental disagreements which I would group around four topics. Firstly, Lotman’s semiotic method is at odds with Laclau’s ontological way of thinking. Secondly, although both Lotman and Laclau subscribe to the openness of signification, it is impossible to incorporate their accounts of this openness without loose ends. In order to substantiate this claim, I examine Lotman’s concept of “boundary” and Laclau’s concept of the “limit.” Thirdly, we s…
“Sealfie”, “Phoque you” and “Animism”: The Canadian Inuit Answer to the United-States Anti-sealing Activism
2018
A corpus made by online Canadian newspaper articles, coming from the archives of CBC News, Vice Canada and Huffington Post Canada, and related multimedia contents such us audio interviews, videos and especially links to images and comments shared on Twitter, allows us to reconstruct the debate on the seal hunt that involved Canadian media in 2014. In specific, we propose an interpretation of the pro-sealing discourse by Canadian Inuit and Newfoundlanders as an ironic and incisive answer to the serious United States animal rights activists discourse, explaining how these two different points of view on animals come from a different experience of the environment and a different conception of …
Phonological-Lexical Feedback during Early Abstract Encoding: The Case of Deaf Readers.
2016
In the masked priming technique, physical identity between prime and target enjoys an advantage over nominal identity in nonwords (GEDA-GEDA faster than geda-GEDA). However, nominal identity overrides physical identity in words (e.g., REAL-REAL similar to real-REAL). Here we tested whether the lack of an advantage of the physical identity condition for words was due to top-down feedback from phonological-lexical information. We examined this issue with deaf readers, as their phonological representations are not as fully developed as in hearing readers. Results revealed that physical identity enjoyed a processing advantage over nominal identity not only in nonwords but also in words (GEDA-GE…
Meaningful physical changes mediate lexical-semantic integration: top-down and form-based bottom-up information sources interact in the N400
2011
Models of how the human brain reconstructs an intended meaning from a linguistic input often draw upon the N400 event-related potential (ERP) component as evidence. Current accounts of the N400 emphasise either the role of contextually induced lexical preactivation of a critical word (Lau, Phillips,& Poeppel, 2008) or the ease of integration into the overall discourse context including a wide variety of influencing factors (Hagoort & van Berkum, 2007). The present ERP study challenges both types of accounts by demonstrating a contextually independent and purely form-based bottom-up influence on the N400: the N400 effect for implausible sentence-endings was attenuated when the critical sente…
Sex differences in interhemispheric communication during face identity encoding: Evidence from ERPs
2013
Sex-related hemispheric lateralization and interhemispheric transmission times (IHTTs) were examined in twenty-four participants at the level of the first visual ERP components (P1 and N170) during face identity encoding in a divided visual-field paradigm. While no lateralization-related and sex-related differences were reflected in the P1 characteristics, these two factors modulated the N170. Indeed, N170 amplitudes indicated a right hemisphere (RH) dominance in men (and a more bilateral functioning in women). N170 latencies and the derived IHTTs confirmed the RH advantage in men but showed the reverse asymmetry in women. Altogether, the results of this study suggest a clear asymmetry in m…
The History of Algebra in Mathematics Education
2006
In this chapter, we analyse key issues in algebra history from which some lessons can be extracted for the future of the teaching and learning of algebra. A comparative analysis of two types of pre-Vietan languages (before 16th century), and of the corresponding methods to solve problems, leads to conjecture the presence of didactic obstacles of an epistemological origin in the transition from arithmetic to algebraic thinking. This illustrates the value of historic and critical analysis for basic research design in mathematics education. Analysing the interrelationship between different evolution stages of the sign system of symbolic algebra and vernacular language supports the inference th…
Philology within the framework of Semiotic Textology. János S. Petőfi’s scientific legacy II
2019
This paper is addressed to linguists and, ideally, to philologists and literary critics. János S. Petőfi formulated his Semiotic Textology within a context of Macro-Disciplines (MD) and within an interdisciplinary context (ID). Petőfi did not give much information about the relationship between Semiotic Textology and other disciplines, such as Philology and Literary Criticism. Textual Linguistics is chronologically the first among the disciplines participating in Natural Text Processing as sub-procedure of Natural Language Processing. On the other hand, Literary Criticism is the last discipline of the procedure, because it expresses artistic evaluation. The connections between the disciplin…
Oggi viene male questo celeste. Paolo Conte e il dilettantismo
2022
The figure of the amateur is emerging on the contemporary semiosphere, both in terms of scientific research and in the artistic domain. In this paper we discuss this phenomenon from the textual analysis of a song by Paolo Conte. We thus deal with the relations of mutual inter semiotic translation between music and image by showing how, in Conte, a musical compo sition can, at the level of utterance, become the theory of a given pictorial making and, at the level of enunciation, be transposed into a drawing that predicates it by its own expressive and semantic means. But also how, in the reverse sense, a certain form of life of the amateur visual artist can be transposed into a precise devic…
¿De qué hablamos cuando hablamos de análisis del discurso? Contra-hegemonía, populismo y mediaticismo en el caso de Podemos
2015
En su tarea de desontologización del marxismo y de reivindicación de una nueva estrategia hegemónica para la izquierda, Ernesto Laclau y Chantal Mouffe erigen un paradigma epistemológico que podríamos llamar retórica general, cuya metodología de investigación de las dinámicas antagónicas ha dado en denominarse, a su vez, Análisis del Discurso. El problema que pretendemos abordar en nuestro artículo es que este análisis, al ser su fin explícitamente estratégico y orientado a la praxis política, acaba muchas veces convertido en un álgebra en la que la pretensión de predicción algorítmica desborda el campo de la heurística o de la hermenéutica, en pro de una hipostatización del éxito político.…
International Journal for the semiotics of law - Special Issue Animals in law
2018
This essay opens the Special Issue of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law dedicated to Animality, entitled “Animals in Law”. It focuses on revealing the principal issues faced in the volume, by positioning the contributors’ works into the general theoretical perspectives which shape the social discourse over animals.