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Musical Meaning and the Semiotic Hierarchy: Towards a Cognitive Semiotics of Music 音乐意义与符号学层次:音乐的认知符号学

Public Journal of Semiotics Pub Date : 2023-07-24 DOI: 10.37693/pjos.2023.10.25325

Gabriele Giacosa

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Icons and metaphors in visual communication: The relevance of Peirce’s theory of iconicity for the analysis of visual communication 视觉传达中的符号与隐喻:皮尔斯的象似性理论与视觉传达分析的关联

Public Journal of Semiotics Pub Date : 2023-06-08 DOI: 10.37693/pjos.2023.10.24762

Martin Thellefsen, Alon Friedman

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On the Lookout for Dialogue: Towards an Extended Dialogism 寻找对话:走向扩展对话

Public Journal of Semiotics Pub Date : 2022-12-19 DOI: 10.37693/pjos.2022.10.24867

Per Linell

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Mechanisms involved in the formation of metaphorical classes within the framework of the class-inclusion model of metaphor comprehension 隐喻理解的类包容模型框架下隐喻类的形成机制

Public Journal of Semiotics Pub Date : 2022-08-26 DOI: 10.37693/pjos.2022.10.24489

Omid Khatin-Zadeh, Danyal Farsani, Florencia Reali

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Language Norms: What and where are they? 语言规范:它们是什么，在哪里?

Public Journal of Semiotics Pub Date : 2022-08-24 DOI: 10.37693/pjos.2022.10.24476

Balder Edmund Ask Zaar

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Equivalence and polyvalence: A case for the stratification of semantics 等价和多价:语义分层的一个例子

Public Journal of Semiotics Pub Date : 2022-08-24 DOI: 10.37693/pjos.2022.10.24473

Andreas Widoff

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Right for the wrong reason; wrong for the right reason: Gibson and Arnheim on picture perception 正确的理由是错误的;错误的原因是正确的:吉布森和阿恩海姆关于图像感知的研究

Public Journal of Semiotics Pub Date : 2021-12-12 DOI: 10.37693/pjos.2021.9.23480

I. Verstegen

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Interpreting the concept of sedimentation in Husserl’s Origin of Geometry 胡塞尔《几何起源》中沉积概念的阐释

Public Journal of Semiotics Pub Date : 2020-10-25 DOI: 10.37693/pjos.2019.9.22182

J. Blomberg

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Interpreting the concept of sedimentation in Husserl’s Origin of Geometry 胡塞尔《几何起源》中沉积概念的阐释

Public Journal of Semiotics Pub Date : 2020-10-25 DOI: 10.37693/pjos.2019.9.21969

Johan

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Fifteen ways of looking at a pointing gesture 15种看手势的方式

Public Journal of Semiotics Pub Date : 2020-04-03 DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/2vxft

Kensy Cooperrider

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