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Semiotica Pub Date : 2025-06-04 eCollection Date: 2025-07-01 DOI: 10.1515/sem-2025-0091

Francesco Galofaro

{"title":"Mystics at war: Padre Pio and Ludwig Wittgenstein.","authors":"Francesco Galofaro","doi":"10.1515/sem-2025-0091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/sem-2025-0091","url":null,"abstract":"Max Weber describes a coherent ideal type of mystic, characterized by passivity and \"living on berries in the woods, or on alms.\" This way, Max Weber disregards the paradoxicality of mystical discourse, selecting a coherent path in a contradictory semantic universe and producing a semiotic ideology, functional to his argument about the relation between capitalism and Protestantism. On the contrary, mystics operate inside the social world and take sides in its conflicts. They react to social crises, such as war, by linking a spiritual reading to their bodily experiences. Eco's notion of \"semiotic labor\" can be useful to analyze how this semiotic relation is produced in mystical writings through metasemiotic statements. The paper focuses on two case-studies: Padre Pio's letters and Ludwig Wittgenstein's diaries, both written during World War I. The analysis will highlight a common structure: both mystics associate spiritual values with pain, anguish, and fear through catalysis, interpreting them as divine trials. This is done thanks to metasemiotic assertions introduced and validated by speech acts. This structure is interpreted as a semio-technique, producing the semantic values with which the subject wishes to join.","PeriodicalId":47288,"journal":{"name":"Semiotica","volume":"2025 265","pages":"137-160"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12238934/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144609953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Mystics and politics: women and the interpretation of the Scriptures. 神秘主义者和政治：妇女和圣经的解释。

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Semiotica Pub Date : 2025-05-30 eCollection Date: 2025-07-01 DOI: 10.1515/sem-2025-0093

Jenny Ponzo

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An edusemiotic approach to teaching intonation in the context of English language teacher education 在英语师范教育中采用教育语言学方法教授语调

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Semiotica Pub Date : 2024-07-22 DOI: 10.1515/sem-2023-0203

Ibrahim Halil Topal

{"title":"An edusemiotic approach to teaching intonation in the context of English language teacher education","authors":"Ibrahim Halil Topal","doi":"10.1515/sem-2023-0203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/sem-2023-0203","url":null,"abstract":"Employing manifold symbolic, iconic, and indexical signs – whether linguistic or extralinguistic – along with their polysemic and multimodular features, edusemiotics is an integrative and interdisciplinary conceptual framework that surmounts learning processes where learners find significance and meaning under the assumed responsibility of English language teachers for the provision of such a participative environment. Allowing for the salience of intonation despite its intricate nature, thus its inevitable underrepresentation in course books and teaching practices, this article intends to propose a novel means of intonation instruction as well as its components (i.e., stress, pitch, and juncture) for English language teacher education (henceforth ELTE) contexts within the edusemiotic framework. Promoting the importance of edusemiotic teaching of intonation, this article further aims to add to our understanding of how signs and sign systems can be benefitted in ELTE settings and their potential exploitation across various other disciplines. It concludes with suggestions for future research on more practical aspects of edusemiotic tools and learner and teacher attitudes toward integrating them within the teaching program.","PeriodicalId":47288,"journal":{"name":"Semiotica","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141769513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Cultural semiotics for mathematical discourses 数学话语的文化符号学

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Semiotica Pub Date : 2024-07-12 DOI: 10.1515/sem-2023-0030

Carola Manolino

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Cultivating critical language awareness: unraveling populism in Trump’s inaugural address 培养批判性语言意识：解读特朗普就职演说中的民粹主义

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Semiotica Pub Date : 2024-07-11 DOI: 10.1515/sem-2023-0162

Junling Zhu

{"title":"Cultivating critical language awareness: unraveling populism in Trump’s inaugural address","authors":"Junling Zhu","doi":"10.1515/sem-2023-0162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/sem-2023-0162","url":null,"abstract":"Recent literature has revealed the upsurge of populism in political and media discourses across the world. However, few studies have acknowledged the importance of cultivating critical language awareness among citizens in democracies. Drawing on Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics and Fairclough’s Critical Discourse, this study critically analyzes Trump’s populist meaning-making choices in his inaugural address through both genre and register analysis to raise the urgency of cultivating citizens’ critical language awareness through language education. To better illustrate Trump’s genre moves and rhetorical strategies, this study sometimes analyzes Trump’s inaugural address in comparison with other presidents’ inaugural addresses. The findings indicate that Trump employs a combination of populist rhetorical style, which includes anti-establishment, anti-elitism rhetoric; collectivist rhetoric; pro-nationalist sentiments; and linguistic choices of simplicity and repetition to appeal to both supporters and opponents in an attempt to build solidarity. The implications of this study center on raising educators’ and social scientists’ awareness of the urgency to cultivate critical language awareness among citizens through language education. Equipped with critical language awareness, citizens can understand how politicians use linguistic resources to engage, persuade, and manipulate their audiences to achieve their political goals, and thereby can make informed choices about political leaders in the future.","PeriodicalId":47288,"journal":{"name":"Semiotica","volume":"528 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141608976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Computer creates a cat: sign formation, glitching, and the AImage 计算机创造一只猫：符号形成、故障和人工智能图像

IF 0.8 3区社会学

Semiotica Pub Date : 2024-07-05 DOI: 10.1515/sem-2023-0108

Michael Betancourt

{"title":"Computer creates a cat: sign formation, glitching, and the AImage","authors":"Michael Betancourt","doi":"10.1515/sem-2023-0108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/sem-2023-0108","url":null,"abstract":"AI-generated images of “cats” offer novel opportunities to consider the semic role of expectations in sign formation where they act as a constraints on semiosis through the potential identification of the AImage as “correct,” or as a “glitch.” Because the identification of “errors” depends on a range of technical and cultural expertise, they offer valuable insights into the interpretive process. The automated generation of media by AI separates the artist’s decision-making process from image production, continuing a trajectory that began with the invention of photography in the nineteenth century that brings the sign formation process into consciousness by distinguishing “intentional” and “unintentional” encoding. The identification AI-produced images as-glitched provides a vehicle to consider how the sign formation process informs identifications of creative action as an intentional action: aesthetic appraisals are central to this process where cultural beliefs about creativity become ideological constraints on interpretation. The potential to understand AI “glitches” as expressive features of the image-object, rather than errors, proceeds via the aesthetics and affects of earlier art, such as the “painterly motion” shown in old master paintings by Peter Paul Rubens, or via the heritage of Surrealism. These affective constraints on sign formation reveal the central role of “glitches” in the distinction of creative and uncreative action.","PeriodicalId":47288,"journal":{"name":"Semiotica","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141572826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Ethnosemantic analysis of binary oppositions in toposystems 地形系统中二元对立的民族语义分析

IF 0.8 3区社会学

Semiotica Pub Date : 2024-04-29 DOI: 10.1515/sem-2023-0054

Zhanar M. Konyratbayeva, Ordaly Konyratbayev, Bekzhan Abdualyuly, Raikhan A. Doszhan, Gulmira Mahmut

{"title":"Ethnosemantic analysis of binary oppositions in toposystems","authors":"Zhanar M. Konyratbayeva, Ordaly Konyratbayev, Bekzhan Abdualyuly, Raikhan A. Doszhan, Gulmira Mahmut","doi":"10.1515/sem-2023-0054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/sem-2023-0054","url":null,"abstract":"The article considers regional issues of the Kazakh transtoposystem. There are a number of problematic issues related to cross-border Kazakh toponymy. The article analyzes only one aspect – the status of binary names in the cross-border toposystem. The goal is to study how obvious the binary opposition is there, considering the etymology of toponyms based on semantic opposition. The toposystem of the Northern and Western regions bordering Russia was used as the empirical material for the study. According to the border administrative-regional division, a number of districts of such regions of the country as North Kazakhstan, Pavlodar, Kostanay, Western Kazakhstan, Aktobe, and Atyrau border with Russia. In the article, a series of binary names along the toponyms of this cross-border zone is formed. In particular, Úlken-Kіshі (Big-Small), Aq-Qara (Black-White), Qara-Sary (Black-Yellow), Jaqsy-Jaman (Good-Bad), Jyly-Sýyq (Warm-Cold), and Ashy-Tushy (Bitter-Fresh) are analyzed. The difference between toponymic binary names and lexical antonyms is considered. We discuss the fact that the contradiction in lexical antonyms is clearly expressed, but in binary opposition along toponyms, the contradiction may not be complete. It is reported that the contradiction of toponyms is recognized only in the toponymic context, and sometimes it is even possible to form a related pair, rather than a semantic contradiction.","PeriodicalId":47288,"journal":{"name":"Semiotica","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140840141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Motorcycles, minarets, and mullahs: a multimodal critical discourse analysis on Pakistan’s journey to rebrand Islam 摩托车、尖塔和毛拉：对巴基斯坦重塑伊斯兰教品牌之旅的多模式批判性话语分析

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Semiotica Pub Date : 2024-04-18 DOI: 10.1515/sem-2023-0178

Rauha Salam-Salmaoui, Shazrah Salam, Shajee Hassan

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Linguistic and cultural analysis of the concept “politeness” 对 "礼貌 "概念的语言和文化分析

IF 0.8 3区社会学

Semiotica Pub Date : 2024-04-17 DOI: 10.1515/sem-2023-0141

Almagul Mambetniyazova, Gulzira Babaeva, Raygul Dauletbayeva, Mnayim Paluanova, Gulkhan Abishova

{"title":"Linguistic and cultural analysis of the concept “politeness”","authors":"Almagul Mambetniyazova, Gulzira Babaeva, Raygul Dauletbayeva, Mnayim Paluanova, Gulkhan Abishova","doi":"10.1515/sem-2023-0141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/sem-2023-0141","url":null,"abstract":"The need to study the concept of “politeness” from the point of view of its linguistic and cultural nature is caused by the desire to study the national identity of speech etiquette in different cultural spaces and conditions. The aim of the work was to form an idea about the specifics of the implementation and understanding of the concept of “politeness” in the Uzbek information field. In this study, the following methods were used: contextual, conceptual, communicative, linguocultural, analytical-synthetic, and comparative. This study is focused on the study of key lexical meanings (stylistically neutral and marked, basic and additional) that are within the functional-semantic field of the concept “politeness.” With the help of contextual study of different variants of the use of the lexeme, the meanings were distributed in the conceptual structure (core, near and far periphery). Also, the key etiquette formulas representing the originality and national-specific features of the Uzbek linguocultural tradition were considered. The importance of politeness in the information space of Uzbekistan is assessed, including with the help of both positive and negative associations, that is, from an axiological point of view. Speech etiquette and linguistic formulas were considered from the point of view of the influence of social, cultural, and political values of the Uzbek people. In the process of analyzing the lexical layer, the boundaries of the functional-semantic field of the concept “politeness” were determined: from the principles of communication and a set of rules of etiquette to the strategy of obtaining benefits from communication and insincere attitude. In the future, this work can be used for comparative analysis of the conceptual structure of politeness with models presented in other close and distant languages, comparison of speech etiquette and linguistic formulas in different national cultures.","PeriodicalId":47288,"journal":{"name":"Semiotica","volume":"221 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140616517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Frames as pre-signal context: using a semiotic framing approach to explain how prior experiences shape present interpretations of control signals 作为前信号背景的框架：使用符号学框架方法解释先前的经验如何影响现在对控制信号的解释

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Semiotica Pub Date : 2024-04-08 DOI: 10.1515/sem-2023-0025

Adam Aitken

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