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Fatal portraits: The selfie as agent of radicalization 致命的肖像:作为激进主义媒介的自拍

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Sign Systems Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-31 DOI: 10.12697/sss.2021.49.3-4.16

Peter Mantello

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Jaan Kaplinski and his contacts with the Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics 詹·卡普林斯基及其与塔尔图莫斯科符号学派的交往

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Sign Systems Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-31 DOI: 10.12697/sss.2021.49.3-4.18

E. Velmezova, K. Kull, Ene-Reet Soovik

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Augmented facets: A semiotics analysis of augmented reality facial effects 增强面：增强现实面部效果的符号学分析

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Sign Systems Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-31 DOI: 10.12697/sss.2021.49.3-4.13

Federico Biggio

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The face of health in the West and the East: A semio-cultural analysis 东西方健康的面貌:半文化分析

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Sign Systems Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-31 DOI: 10.12697/sss.2021.49.3-4.03

Simona Stano

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The transcendence of the face: A semiotic-linguistic path 面孔的超越：一条符号语言学路径

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Sign Systems Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-31 DOI: 10.12697/sss.2021.49.3-4.02

Ugo Volli

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Marlen Haushofer’s The Wall and the post-nuclear culture of the face 马伦·豪斯霍弗的《墙》和后核时代的面部文化

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Sign Systems Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-31 DOI: 10.12697/sss.2021.49.3-4.07

Emanuela Ferragamo

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Intersemiotic translation from fairy tale to sculpture: An exploration of secondary narrativity 从童话到雕塑的符号学翻译:二次叙事的探索

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Sign Systems Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-28 DOI: 10.12697/sss.3

Wenjing Li, J. Zlatev

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Participative opposition applied 参与式反对

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Sign Systems Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-28 DOI: 10.12697/sss.1

Ľudmila Lacková

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Perspectives, dimensions, and references that shape the notion of nature: A semiotic model based on socioecological relations 塑造自然概念的视角、维度和参考:基于社会生态关系的符号学模型

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Sign Systems Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-28 DOI: 10.12697/sss.2

Raquel Aparicio Cid

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Narratives and the semiotic freedom of children 叙事与儿童的符号自由

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Sign Systems Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-04 DOI: 10.12697/SSS.2021.49.1-2.09

Sara M. Lenninger

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