An integrational approach to colonial semiosis

Cambridge Handbook of Discourse Studies

Link to paper: https://semioticreview.com/ojs/index.php/sr/article/view/9/10 There has been a sustained and forceful call in recent anthropological accounts to engage more critically with the tangible materiality of the world, and especially a demand to take into account the ability of things to resist or exceed the discursive frameworks within which humans situate them. In this shift away from questions of subjectivity and interpretation, there is often an attendant downplaying of the semiotic. We resist this dualistic framing of semiotics in opposition to material things, and suggest that we should think more carefully about the assumption that subjectivity, interpretation and semiotics should be pushed aside in order to explore the nonhuman. Here we construe semiotics more broadly, recognizing a more encompassing field that engages explicitly with the non-representational, drawing upon a Peircean heritage. Rather than putting questions of representation to one side in order to focus on the peculiar characteristics of things, in this issue we situate representation within a wide-ranging field of sign-making and sign-perception, in which the concrete characteristics and qualities of sign relations are fully recognized. This is to put representation in its place as one of many forms of sign-relation, and similarly to situate human ways of knowing within a world of knowing actors, humans and nonhumans alike.

2015

Abstract. In the paper an attempt is made to treat the basic concepts of biosemiotics and semiotics of culture in a wide intellectual context. The three leading paradigms of the current intellectual discourse are distinguished, which could be conventionally designated as “classical”, “modern ” and “postmodern”: Peirce’s semiosis stands for the classical, Umwelt for the modern and semiosphere for the postmodern semiotic space. I must start with an apology: although several biological and philo-sophical terms and constructions will be discussed, my paper is related to neither of those fields. One of the reasons is that I am a complete ignoramus in biology and allergic to philosophy. Thus, I will focus on the perspective of cultural semiotics, analysing the mentioned pheno-mena from the aspect which is close to Michel Foucault’s archaeology of knowledge (Foucault 1970, 1972). Before treating Jakob von Uexküll’s Umwelt, we should briefly consider the intellectual context, where this con...

Rethinking Orality I: Codification, Transcodification and Transmission of 'Cultural Messages', 2022

The present paper reviews the main approaches developed for the linguistic analysis of sign languages, discussingt he different theoretical assumptions and methodological implications applied along with the history of sign languages tudies. Sign languager esearch demanded ar evolution in some core beliefs of language, namely the linearity of speech, discreteness, and arbitrariness, providing an ew wayt ol ook at the nature of language.

2011

Dialectical Anthropology, 1988

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 1992

Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 2003

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, 2011

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2016

Problem Statement: Sign texts hide different versions of cultural reality, in whose creation and interpretation are involved their producers and consumers. The problem is what role in the processes of text interpretation constructing cultural realities plays remediation as a transport of texts from one communication medium into another. Research Questions: The study aims to find out what role in the processes of cultural practices plays remediation of visual sign texts and what changes in the mediated contents causes remediation of visual sign texts? Purpose of the Study: The study aims to reflect the fact that the socio-cultural reality is presented, constructed and stored in the processes of cultural practices, which is an essential component of remediation and interpretation of sensate sign texts as tools of semiotic and cultural transfer and to analyze selected visual texts with the intention to identify changes that causes remediation carried out by different communication media. Research Methods: In context of textual approaches of cultural studies the study uses qualitative methods -semiotic, narrative and discourse analysis of visual sing text. The study analyzes selected visual sign texts that carry different communication media, among other artistic collage, poster, exhibition catalog, illustration in a popular science book, and e-mail. Findings: The study showed that the remediation of visual texts is an instrument of semiotic and cultural transfer, is initiated by socio-cultural practices and brings changes in contents of sign texts. It further showed that the remediation is simultaneously the bearer of cultural traditions and initiator of cultural changes since ancient times. Conclusion: Interpretation of selected visual texts concluded that remediation is a basic condition for reproduction of cultural values, norms and myths as elementary forms of cultural integration and that remediation in the context of contemporary cultural studies is not only an important research topic, but also the research problem that has not been sufficiently thoroughly theoretically nor practically processed.