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Abai’s poetry in Eco’s semiotic light 艾柯符号学视角下的阿拜诗歌
IF 0.2 4区 社会学
Chinese Semiotic Studies Pub Date : 2024-05-31 DOI: 10.1515/css-2024-2016
Roza Khassenova, Manifa Sarkulova
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Biosemiotics’ greatest potential contribution to biology 生物符号学对生物学的最大潜在贡献
IF 0.2 4区 社会学
Chinese Semiotic Studies Pub Date : 2024-05-31 DOI: 10.1515/css-2024-2013
Jeremy Sherman
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Transmuting the painterly sign 转换绘画标志
IF 0.2 4区 社会学
Chinese Semiotic Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-26 DOI: 10.1515/css-2024-2007
Ersu Ding
{"title":"Transmuting the painterly sign","authors":"Ersu Ding","doi":"10.1515/css-2024-2007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/css-2024-2007","url":null,"abstract":"According to renowned linguist and semiotician Roman Jakobson, translation can be divided into three general categories: intralingual translation, interlingual translation, and intersemiotic translation/transmutation. Unlike the first two categories, intersemiotic transmutation lacks the usual isomorphism that exist between a source and its target, but that should not deter us from discovering an underlying universal process of two-step interpretation that is involved in transmuting painting as a nonverbal sign into art criticism which is mostly verbal. Put simply, painting as a special form of human communication relies heavily on iconicity between “representamen” and its “object,” but this is only the first step on our way toward the hidden meaning of a visual text. To achieve the latter goal, we also need – often, but not always, through indexical reasoning – to make connections between a painting and its sociohistorical context in the manner of logical abduction as proposed by Charles Sanders Peirce rather than structural differentiation as advocated by Ferdinand de Saussure. Compared with iconic correspondences, indexical relations are far more arbitrary and therefore extremely difficult to reconstruct.","PeriodicalId":52036,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Semiotic Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140325687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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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Religious modeling of a natural disaster: a cultural semiotic study 自然灾害的宗教模式：文化符号学研究
IF 0.2 4区 社会学
Chinese Semiotic Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-26 DOI: 10.1515/css-2024-2011
Muzayin Nazaruddin
{"title":"Religious modeling of a natural disaster: a cultural semiotic study","authors":"Muzayin Nazaruddin","doi":"10.1515/css-2024-2011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/css-2024-2011","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the relationship between disaster and religion by exploring three main questions: how religion shapes the interpretation of disasters and the subsequent recovery processes; how disasters transform religious practices; and how religious interpretations may coexist with scientific explanations of the same disaster. By focusing on the Aceh society’s experience after the 2004 tsunami, this paper argues that Islam, which serves as the central modeling system of Aceh culture, played two interconnected roles in the post-tsunami period: one of providing explanations for the inexplicable disaster and the other of guiding the ensuing actions. Furthermore, the tsunami had a significant impact on the practice of Islam in Aceh, as demonstrated by the shift toward the Sharia system to create a more Islamic Aceh society in the future. This phenomenon thus serves as an example of an explosive change in a semiosphere, as explained by Juri Lotman. This paper also identifies the coexistence of religious and scientific interpretations of the tsunami among the Acehnese, highlighting their distinct social functions.","PeriodicalId":52036,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Semiotic Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140325845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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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On the syntax and semantics of sluicing in Mandarin Chinese 论普通话中 "滑音 "的句法和语义
IF 0.2 4区 社会学
Chinese Semiotic Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-26 DOI: 10.1515/css-2024-2009
Chengdong Wang, Yudi Yuan
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Toward an ethnographic materialist semiotics: spatial scope, indexicality, and chronotope in a Chinese academic institution 迈向人种物质主义符号学：中国学术机构的空间范围、索引性和时序性
IF 0.2 4区 社会学
Chinese Semiotic Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-01 DOI: 10.1515/css-2024-2002
Jie Dong
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Elder Biaoqing: investigating the indexicalities of memes on Chinese social media 彪清老人：调查中国社交媒体上备忘录的索引性
IF 0.2 4区 社会学
Chinese Semiotic Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-01 DOI: 10.1515/css-2024-2005
Ying Lu, Sjaak Kroon
{"title":"Elder Biaoqing: investigating the indexicalities of memes on Chinese social media","authors":"Ying Lu, Sjaak Kroon","doi":"10.1515/css-2024-2005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/css-2024-2005","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper adopts a digital ethnographic approach to analyze concrete communicative practices with Elder Biaoqing, a type of graphic semiotic resources comparable to emojis and memes, typically designed for and used by older people on Chinese social media. Following Silverstein’s theorizing, it reveals the emergence of multiple indexicalities of Elder Biaoqing that are a result of several social factors: the growth of an older population online, people’s reflections on their communicative needs engendered by specific social facts, and people’s ethno-metapragmatics. The study of Elder Biaoqing reveals users’ agency in creating semiotic resources, the inequality between digital natives and digital migrants, and age anxiety in Chinese society. The findings invite a re-imagination of social facts – the existence of an online–offline nexus and a re-thinking of theories for sociocultural research in a digital era – ontological perspectives on multimodal resources and digital infrastructures, developments of the theoretical perspective of indexicality, and a total-semiotic-fact approach to digitally mediated social interaction.","PeriodicalId":52036,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Semiotic Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140465829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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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A semiotic view of symbol and identity in the film Farewell My Concubine 从符号学角度看电影《霸王别姬》中的符号与身份
IF 0.2 4区 社会学
Chinese Semiotic Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-01 DOI: 10.1515/css-2024-2006
Wenxi Zhu
{"title":"A semiotic view of symbol and identity in the film Farewell My Concubine","authors":"Wenxi Zhu","doi":"10.1515/css-2024-2006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/css-2024-2006","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Adapted by Li Bihua and Lu Wei and directed by Chen Kaige, Farewell My Concubine was first released in mainland China and Hong Kong in 1993. It gained strong momentum and went on to break the box office for mainland Chinese literary films in the USA. Against the background of traditional Peking Opera culture, the film spans nearly half a century and follows the love–hate relationship between Cheng Dieyi, played by Leslie Cheung, and Duan Xiaolou, played by Zhang Fengyi. It shows the changes in human nature and the rise and fall of classical art in the city of Beiping in different eras. Taking “symbols” as the entry point, this paper analyses and explores the characteristics of the cultural symbols and metaphors that accompany the main narrative line of the film so as to further trace and understand the multiple interpretations that “anti-identity construction” brings to the film, as well as the ethical implications reflected in the symbols.","PeriodicalId":52036,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Semiotic Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140468535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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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A study of the commodification of multilingualism in four cafés in China 中国四家咖啡馆的多语言商品化研究
IF 0.2 4区 社会学
Chinese Semiotic Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-01 DOI: 10.1515/css-2024-2004
Xi Yan
{"title":"A study of the commodification of multilingualism in four cafés in China","authors":"Xi Yan","doi":"10.1515/css-2024-2004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/css-2024-2004","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Space is constructed as a particular place by various agents and in a variety of ways, and languages play an important role in the semiotic construction of a space. This study adopts a linguistic landscape approach to explore how languages are commodified for consumption in sites of luxury, i.e., four cafés in Quanzhou, a southeastern city of China. The findings show some similarities and differences in terms of language choice for the four cafés. Despite the similarities and differences, the four shops’ landscapes feature atmospheric multilingualism, where multiple languages and scripts move into a luxury register of late-modern consumption and create the affective regime of luxury and exclusivity. Atmospheric multilingualism is driven by commercial interests and characterized by the commodification of multilingualism and a division of labor among languages in four cafés. In this division, English, other foreign languages, and traditional Chinese characters are employed for their symbolic functions, indexing cosmopolitanism, distinction, luxury, and modernity. Simplified Chinese characters are linked to the interaction order and used in daily business as the main instrument of communication.","PeriodicalId":52036,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Semiotic Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140463867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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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Linguistic landscaping from above in China: scale-making and language ideologies 中国自上而下的语言景观：尺度制定与语言意识形态
IF 0.2 4区 社会学
Chinese Semiotic Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-01 DOI: 10.1515/css-2024-2001
Guowen Shang
{"title":"Linguistic landscaping from above in China: scale-making and language ideologies","authors":"Guowen Shang","doi":"10.1515/css-2024-2001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/css-2024-2001","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The sociolinguistics of mobility is one of Jan Blommaert’s significant theoretical legacies vis-à-vis language interactions in the age of globalization. This paper investigates the mobilization of English as a semiotic resource in the public space of Chinese cities to reveal how the process of linguistic landscaping rescales English in China’s layered language regime. In the three investigated cities in eastern China, the English language has been conceptualized as a symbol of internationalization, and the affective potentials of English signs turn the cities into spaces of friendliness. I argue that the visual bilingualism for internationalization purposes is loaded with state ideologies, and English semiotization in the urban space demonstrates the state’s keenness for international recognition and integration into the global world. Inherent in this linguistic landscaping process are Englishization as internationalization ideology, standard language ideology, and linguistic purism ideology. While the translocal status of English in the world language system serves to upscale the cities to a higher scale level, the valorization of English in the official domain also reinforces the hegemonic power of English in the indexicality order, marginalizing social groups with limited English literacy. Thus, a critical, dialectical lens is needed to analyze the role of English in top-down linguistic landscaping.","PeriodicalId":52036,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Semiotic Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140469299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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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