Search results for "Semiotic"

Teachers' evaluative turns in Finnish CLIL classrooms

2008

Un palacio para un héroe: la representación del Sagrado Palacio Imperial de Constantinopla en el "Tirant lo Blanc"

2014

Joannot Martorell recovers the Gran Palacio Imperial de Constantinople in the Greek chapter of Tirant lo Blanch, in order to provide a symbolic space to the heroic projection of his main character. Tirant achieves in the fiction an impossible dream even in reality. Uses the capital of Bosphorus as a symbol for a real New Rome and rescues an enclosure that in the Christian sphere becomes the heir of the ancient Empire. In this article we will analyze with detail the resources employed by Martorell to recreate the palace environment and value the contribution of the literary text as a source for History of Art.

De Montaigne a Lope: distintos resultados de una misma decisión

2009

This essay presents the initial hypothesis of the diversity of cases shown by Lope de Vega’s theatre, that multiply perspectives and different endings from the same basic types of conflicts and designs, and tries to verify them with contemporary thought. This diversity is related with a certain type of discourse that has begun to spread out in the very beginning of the Renaissance and was gradually displacing the pre-eminence of universal principles (neo-platonic, or neoaristotelic and scholastic) for an invitation to casuistic analysis, an ethical modality applied that chose the concrete analysis of the concrete situation in front of the universally required dogmas. A type of discourse tha…

LE IMPOSTURE DEL CIBO. ARGOMENTI PER UNA ESPOSIZIONE DELL' 'ABSENTIA'

2008

According to Ugo Volli, «what defines the identity of any semiotic object is its ability to carry out a specific set of functions». But what happens if the semiotic object does not achieve these functions? If the semiotic object does not keep its promises? What is the relation that connects the presence of a semiotic object with its ‘natural task’? Thus, what happens for example to the food if it cannot be enjoyed, if it does not feed? If it is present on the scene but so distant as to become unreachable and to make its natural function absent? In this particular case it is appropriate to bring up the concept of absentia. «LC». Rivista Dipartimento Letterature e Culture Europee Università d…

Figure di città. Spazi urbani e discorsi sociali

2013

Questo libro dialoga con le altre discipline che nell’epoca contemporanea indagano sui problemi scottanti della metropoli e della megalopoli, dello sprawl urbano e degli slums, delle reti mediatiche e della sfera immaginaria che esse generano. E nello stesso tempo prova a individuare i momenti chiave – e i punti critici – che sono via via emersi negli studi semiotici sulla città. Lo scopo del libro è appunto quello di dissodare un campo entro cui si innestano e proliferano una serie di figure di città, immagini e segni d’ogni tipo che, nel loro intreccio, vanno a costituire lo spessore della nostra vita quotidiana. Sorvegliato da una intelaiatura teorica tanto rigorosa quanto dinamica, lo s…

From Theatre to Theatricality—How to Construct Reality

1995

At the end of the nineteenth century, the dominance of language, so typical of Western culture since the Renaissance, was increasingly challenged. As early as 1876, Nietzsche wrote on Richard Wagner in Thoughts Out of Season:He was the first to recognize an evil which is as widespread as civilization itself among men; language is everywhere diseased, and the burden of this terrible disease weighs heavily upon the whole of man's development. Inasmuch as language has retreated ever more and more from its true province— the expression of strong feelings, which it was once able to convey in all their simplicity—and has always had to strain after the practically impossible achievement of communi…

Multimodality: Art as a Meaning-Making Process

2021

AbstractThe authors of the book see multimodality as intrinsic to human communication and texts, and as consisting of a multiplicity of signs. This chapter discusses how this applies in educational settings, to examine how different modes of communication are intertwined and utilized in learning, including children’s creative learning practices. In this, the authors use the semiotic concepts that operate in all communicative contexts: Field, tenor, and mode. Through them, the authors view the CLLP as a space that enables social activities, exploration of cultural, social, and societal contents and topics, and the development of social relationships. All this occurs through various communica…

Scientific and Design Stances

2010

Human technology interaction is a strange field of expertise, because both academics and industry are interested in it. And yet, every now and then, it becomes apparent that academics and industry do not always see eye to eye (Carroll, 1997). They seem to think in different manner. While scientists look for how things are, industry mostly seeks out how things should be. Indeed, sometimes two very different stances behind the basic thinking of the two important human–technology interaction (HTI) communities surface. Scientists primarily are interested in general laws and principles, even eternal truths with no exceptions. They want to identify general laws and use them to explain individual …

The soundslide report : innovative journalism or misplaced works of art?

2014

Published version of an article in the journal: Nordicom Review. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/nor-2014-0007 Open Access The audio slideshow-or soundslide report-represents a new format for journalistic reporting on online news sites. It is not very widely used, but it has certain discursive and aesthetic potentials indicating that it could contribute substantially to the ecology of journalistic genres. The article offers an illustration and discussion of these potentials, asking how the format communicates and how it affects journalism in general. Starting out with a close reading of a sample text and a discussion of the format's position in a network of g…

CREATIVE TOOLS FOR THE FORMATION OF PUBLIC SIGNS IN THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT OF THE BALTIC STATES

2014

<p>In public space there is the information, that is always designed with a specific purpose. For example, signposts are placed to provide direction guidance and to highlight some of the most important objects. Public signs function as the visiting cards of some institution or enterprise, creating indirectly a definite image of these institutions or some ethnic or social groups, while graffiti is written to create and maintain a public image and to express emotions or attitudes towards some person, a group of people, events or processes. To achieve the expected objective the authors of signs often use the eye-catching texts that differ from linguistic and para-linguistic means, such a…