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Legendary Brands and Economic Value: A Semiotic Approach 传奇品牌与经济价值:符号学方法

IF 0.1 4区社会学

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SEMIOTICS Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.5840/AJS201913142

K. Bankov

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引用次数: 2

Possibilities of Materiality: Application of a Peircean Model of the Sign for Building New Brands 物质性的可能性:一个沛然模型在建立新品牌标志中的应用

IF 0.1 4区社会学

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SEMIOTICS Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.5840/AJS201922245

Maciej Biedziński

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引用次数: 1

Introduction: Applied Brand Semiotics 简介:应用品牌符号学

IF 0.1 4区社会学

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SEMIOTICS Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.5840/AJS2018343/445

Jamin Pelkey, Michael Pereira

引用次数: 2

Hypothetic Inference as “Peculiar Musical Emotion”: Interpreting Hüsker Dü 作为“特殊音乐情感”的假设推理:解读h<s:1> sker Dü

IF 0.1 4区社会学

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SEMIOTICS Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.5840/AJS20192643

B. Stampfl

引用次数: 1

Cassirer as Revolutionary: Semiotics as Embodied Worldview: Appreciating the Other in Ourselves 卡西尔作为革命者:符号学作为体现的世界观:欣赏我们自身中的他者

IF 0.1 4区社会学

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SEMIOTICS Pub Date : 2017-12-28 DOI: 10.5840/AJS2017122731

E. Kramer

引用次数: 0

Paulo Freire and Ernst Cassirer: Mythic and Superstitious Consciousness in Contemporary Academic Culture 保罗·弗莱雷与恩斯特·卡西尔:当代学术文化中的神话与迷信意识

IF 0.1 4区社会学

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SEMIOTICS Pub Date : 2017-12-19 DOI: 10.5840/AJS2017121830

Maureen D. Connolly

引用次数: 0

Ernst Cassirer’s Theory and Application of Communicology: From Husserl via Bühler to Jakobson 恩斯特·卡西尔的共产主义理论及其应用——从胡塞尔到布勒再到雅各布森

IF 0.1 4区社会学

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SEMIOTICS Pub Date : 2017-12-15 DOI: 10.5840/AJS2017121428

Richard L. Lanigan

引用次数: 5

Beyond the “Tragedy of Culture”: In-between Epistemology and Communication 超越“文化悲剧”：在认识论与传播学之间

IF 0.1 4区社会学

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SEMIOTICS Pub Date : 2017-12-13 DOI: 10.5840/AJS2017121227

G. Sonesson

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引用次数: 0

Musical Performance As an Intermedial Affair (A Case of a Pianist) 音乐表演作为一种中间事务(以钢琴家为例)

IF 0.1 4区社会学

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SEMIOTICS Pub Date : 2017-06-21 DOI: 10.5840/AJS201722123

D. Martinelli, Lina Navickaitė-Martinelli

引用次数: 2

Introduction—A Manifesto For “New Humanities” 引言——“新人文”的宣言

IF 0.1 4区社会学

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SEMIOTICS Pub Date : 2017-06-21 DOI: 10.5840/ajs2017331/21

D. Martinelli

引用次数: 0