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Representing youth as vulnerable social media users: a social semiotic analysis of the promotional materials from The Social Dilemma 将青年表述为弱势社交媒体用户：对《社交困境》宣传材料的社会符号学分析

IF 0.8 3区社会学

Semiotica Pub Date : 2024-01-19 DOI: 10.1515/sem-2023-0047

Wei Jhen Liang, Fei Victor Lim

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Intralingual translation in didactic practice: five case studies 教学实践中的语内翻译：五个案例研究

IF 0.8 3区社会学

Semiotica Pub Date : 2024-01-19 DOI: 10.1515/sem-2022-0097

Aage Hill-Madsen

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On the recognitions of asemic poetry as language 论对作为语言的无符号诗歌的认识

IF 0.8 3区社会学

Semiotica Pub Date : 2024-01-19 DOI: 10.1515/sem-2022-0017

Michael Betancourt

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Campus repertoires: interrogating semiotic assemblages, economy, and creativity 校园剧目：探究符号组合、经济和创造力

IF 0.8 3区社会学

Semiotica Pub Date : 2023-12-27 DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0066

Gabriel Simungala, Deborah Ndalama-Mtawali

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The concepts “power” and “death” as key units in the conceptual framework of the novel The Nomads: The Charmed Sword by Yessenberlin 权力 "和 "死亡 "这两个概念是小说《游牧民族》概念框架中的关键单元：叶森伯林的《魅力之剑

IF 0.8 3区社会学

Semiotica Pub Date : 2023-12-26 DOI: 10.1515/sem-2022-0091

Aigerim Dairbekova, Leila Mekebayeva

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Semiotic approach of strategic narrative: the news discourse of Russia’s coronavirus aid to Italy 战略叙事的符号学方法：俄罗斯援助意大利冠状病毒的新闻话语

IF 0.8 3区社会学

Semiotica Pub Date : 2023-12-26 DOI: 10.1515/sem-2022-0020

Andreas Ventsel

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Cross-modal iconicity in songs about weeping 哭泣歌曲中的跨调式象似性

IF 0.8 3区社会学

Semiotica Pub Date : 2023-11-18 DOI: 10.1515/sem-2022-0100

Anna Bonifazi

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A monument’s many faces: the meanings of the face in monuments and memorials 纪念碑的许多面孔:面孔在纪念碑和纪念馆中的意义

IF 0.8 3区社会学

Semiotica Pub Date : 2023-11-17 DOI: 10.1515/sem-2023-0165

Federico Bellentani

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Above the heteronormative narrative: performance and emergence of Disney’s villains 在非主流叙事之上:迪士尼反派的表现和出现

3区社会学

Semiotica Pub Date : 2023-11-13 DOI: 10.1515/sem-2023-0168

Francesco Piluso

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Heterotopias and the facesphere: “Living Pictures: Photography in Southeast Asia” 异托邦与面域:“活的影像:东南亚的摄影”

3区社会学

Semiotica Pub Date : 2023-11-10 DOI: 10.1515/sem-2023-0163

Silvia Barbotto

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