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Reading and writing in n-dimensional face space 在n维面空间中读写

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Chinese Semiotic Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1515/css-2023-2015

Silvia Barbotto Forzano

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Paolo Marzolo and Cesare Lombroso: a semiotic-medical inheritance between word, sounds, and face Paolo Marzolo和Cesare Lombroso:文字、声音和面部之间的符号学医学遗传

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Chinese Semiotic Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1515/css-2023-2012

Alice Orrù

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Face in the mirror, what do you see? Catoptric autoexperimentation and the physiognomic gaze 镜子里的脸，你看到了什么?反射性自我实验和面相凝视

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Chinese Semiotic Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1515/css-2023-2017

Devon Schiller

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Lombroso’s criminal face across physiognomy and semeiotics 从面相学和符号学看龙布罗梭的犯罪面孔

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Chinese Semiotic Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1515/css-2023-2013

Angelo Di Caterino

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Frontmatter 头版头条

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Chinese Semiotic Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1515/css-2023-frontmatter3

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Eyes on Chinese female models’ faces: stereotypes, aesthetics, self-Orientalism, and the moral discourse of the CPC 中国女模特的面孔:刻板印象、美学、自我东方主义与中国共产党的道德话语

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Chinese Semiotic Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1515/css-2023-2021

Yifei Wang

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Physiognomic theories between equation and inference 方程与推理之间的相面理论

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Chinese Semiotic Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1515/css-2023-2011

Michele Cerutti

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Introduction to “The visage as text” 《作为文本的面孔》简介

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Chinese Semiotic Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1515/css-2023-2010

Remo Gramigna, Massimo Leone

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The visage and the mask: semiotic considerations around representations of visages in Japanese Nō 面孔与面具:日本nue中面孔表征的符号学考量