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From expectation to concepts: Toward multilevel grounding in musical semantics 从期望到概念:音乐语义学的多层次基础

Cognitive Semiotics Pub Date : 2018-03-26 DOI: 10.1515/cogsem-2016-0005

Mihailo Antović

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引用次数: 7

Multilevel poetry translation as a problem-solving task 多层次诗歌翻译作为解决问题的任务

Cognitive Semiotics Pub Date : 2018-03-26 DOI: 10.1515/cogsem-2016-0007

Pedro Atã, J. Queiroz

引用次数: 5

Corrigendum to: Line Brandt. 2016. The rhetorics of fictive interaction in advertising: The case for imagined direct speech in argumentation 勘误表:Line Brandt. 2016。广告中有效互动的修辞学:论证中想象直接引语的案例

Cognitive Semiotics Pub Date : 2018-02-14 DOI: 10.1515/cogsem-2018-9999

Line Brandt

引用次数: 0

Vico, Peirce, and the issue of complexity in human sciences Vico, Peirce，以及人文科学的复杂性问题

Cognitive Semiotics Pub Date : 2017-05-01 DOI: 10.1515/cogsem-2017-0001

Amadeu Viana

引用次数: 8

The meaning and madness of money: A Semio-ecological analysis 金钱的意义与疯狂:半生态学分析

Cognitive Semiotics Pub Date : 2017-01-27 DOI: 10.1515/cogsem-2017-0007

P. A. Brandt

引用次数: 5

The metaphoric conceptualization of emotion through heart idioms in Turkish 从土耳其语的心语习语看情感的隐喻化

Cognitive Semiotics Pub Date : 2017-01-27 DOI: 10.1515/cogsem-2017-0006

M. Baş

引用次数: 7

Aesthetic perception, attention, and non-genericity: How artists exploit the automatisms of perception to construct meaning in vision 审美知觉、注意与非一般性:艺术家如何利用知觉的自动性在视觉中建构意义

Cognitive Semiotics Pub Date : 2017-01-27 DOI: 10.1515/cogsem-2017-0011

Peer F. Bundgaard, Jacob Heath, S. Østergaard

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引用次数: 7

More on money: A response to Oakley 更多关于金钱:对Oakley的回应

Cognitive Semiotics Pub Date : 2017-01-27 DOI: 10.1515/cogsem-2017-0009

P. A. Brandt

引用次数: 2

Debtors, creditors, and sovereign money: A case for institutional blending and the amalgamated mind 债务人、债权人和主权货币:制度融合和思想融合的案例

Cognitive Semiotics Pub Date : 2017-01-27 DOI: 10.1515/cogsem-2017-0010

Todd Oakley

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引用次数: 1

Language and Culture in Visual Narratives 视觉叙事中的语言和文化

Cognitive Semiotics Pub Date : 2017-01-27 DOI: 10.1515/cogsem-2017-0008

B. Tversky, Tracy H F Chow

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引用次数: 10