scholarly journals Positive Semiotics

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Lomas
Keyword(s):  
Charles Sanders Peirce ◽  
Body Language ◽  
Considerable Importance ◽  
Sign Systems ◽  
Positive Perspective ◽  
The Way

Although semiotics has historically been a focus of interest in psychology, its impact over recent decades has been fairly muted. Moreover, no systematic efforts have been made to study and understand it from a positive perspective, that is, the way sign-systems are or can be “positive.” As such, this article introduces the notion of “positive semiotics,” a label for the disparate research and theorizing that is already underway across academia relating to this topic. The article draws on the work of Charles Sanders Peirce, particularly in terms of his triadic view of sign-systems as comprising a sign, an object, and an interpretant. The idea of positivity is then elucidated using the criterion of desirability, drawing on the work of James Pawelski. Attempts are also made to ascertain the nature of desirability, including normative forms (clarified here using the conceptual triad of goodness, truth, and beauty) and nonnormative forms (understood as personal wants). The article then considers four key semiotic channels—discursive language, body language, symbols, and art—looking at selective examples of how positive semiotics might pertain to that channel. It is hoped the article will stimulate further interest in, and work on, a phenomenon that is of considerable importance to psychology and beyond.

Communication skills

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duncan Harding
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expression ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Body Language ◽  
Verbal Communication ◽  
Level Of Understanding ◽  
The Way

This chapter considers our communication skills in the interview and describes techniques to help communicate effectively with the interviewer. It starts by looking at the psychological context of communication, and then moves onto verbal communication, considering the way content is delivered in its conciseness, tone, and volume. It discusses depth and breadth of content and how to hint at a broader level of understanding in the interview without straying from the question. Our non-verbal communication and expression reflects our core underlying state and this theme is explored by considering body language and facial expression, appropriate language, signposting, and summarizing. The chapter discusses the illusion of structure and includes an exercise to improve our dissemination, accuracy, and fluency of speech. The chapter finishes by learning how to listen and thinking about what makes an expert communicator.

Skills toolkit 4: The non-technical expert

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duncan Harding
Keyword(s):  
Soft Skills ◽  
Eye Contact ◽  
Technical Skills ◽  
Body Language ◽  
Interview Process ◽  
Technical Expert ◽  
Survival Mode ◽  
Capacity For Change ◽  
The Way

This chapter considers non-technical skills as they pertain to the interview. It starts by discussing the importance of soft skills in the interview: our presence, attitude and professionalism, the way we process and react, our overall manner, and how these can fall away when we are stressed and pushed into a survival mode. The chapter then explores the following soft skills in further detail, looking at each in turn: eye contact and touch, warmth and professionalism, empathy and distance, confidence and humility, and then body language and the non-verbal. The chapter considers being a friend and colleague to the interviewer, and finally it discusses the importance of our insight and our capacity for change in this interview process.

Anglo-German Negotiations Concerning the Future of the Portuguese Colonies, 1911–1914

1973 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 361-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Langhorne
Keyword(s):  
International Politics ◽  
Considerable Importance ◽  
Portuguese Empire ◽  
Full Treatment ◽  
Secretary Of State ◽  
The Future ◽  
Foreign Office ◽  
Do So ◽  
The Way

The negotiations between England and Germany over the future of the Portuguese Empire which were in progress between 1911 and 1914 have been given little attention by historians. Such as there is has usually taken the form of en passant remarks to the effect that the successful conclusion of an agreement was part of the evidence for something like an Anglo-German détente just before war broke out. Although the view that the episode does not rate full treatment is certainly correct, considerable importance was attached to the negotiations at the time, and their course does reveal some interesting features. There is useful evidence for discussing such problems as the views and influence of the permanent officials at the Foreign Office, the importance of imperial considerations in international politics at the time, and the attitudes of Sir Edward Grey and Mr ‘Lulu’ Harcourt (Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1910–15). The resolution of the divisions on the British side and the way in which the negotiations were handled has not before been put together from the available papers, and to do so gives an opportunity to reconsider what was the true significance of the episode in Anglo-German relations.

scholarly journals The Importance of Body Language in Costume Shows

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 220
Author(s):  
Jingran Qi
Keyword(s):  
Performing Arts ◽  
Body Language ◽  
Emotion Expression ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Core ◽  
Art Form ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Way

<p align="justify">With the development of the times, costume show has become a common art form. As the core of the fashion show, the fashion model not only shows the characteristics of the clothing itself, but also represents the fashion trend. There are also many categories of clothing models, depending on the style of clothing. As an art show, clothing models need to present the intrinsic qualities and perfect external image. Beautiful appearance is not enough just for models. If models don't have the right body language to show the unique temperament vividly, the clothing models will not have new attainments in clothing for the performing arts. In view of this situation, this paper fully discusses the necessity of the body language of the fashion model in the fashion show and the way of personalized emotion expression.</p>

scholarly journals Lattice tendency class and rebellion in the poetry of hope Donqol (analytical study -ffineh)

2018 ◽  
Vol 222 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-164
Author(s):  
Assit. Prof: Dr.luay .sh. Mahmood
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Study ◽  
Body Language ◽  
The Body ◽  
Researcher Note ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

shrug researcher note Bcharih hope Donqol, unless the pain the life of the poet, which was characterized by (b deprivation, poverty, oppression), and they form (rejection), which led to the insurgency; and because poet haunted by Jesse excellence who longed to find the form of guarantees for Vshehadh job: (Interestingness and persuasion), Interestingness: document to sculpture in the body language, and the wealth of aesthetic and cultural variety of the elements, and persuasion: backed deep devoutly usefulness of poetry and its ability to achieve communication, and payment collective conscience that transcends to achieve attributes: (penetration and combustion), breakthrough: to block out time, and then the combustion creative to constitute a poet -aml Dnql- read, but based on the way that warms the joints of the society in which injury weakness, as well as on the fire of the motor to rise to the world of purity is impossible combustion breakthrough

Simulation of Life

Janus Head ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-155
Author(s):  
Jessi Snider ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Macro Level ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Sign Systems ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Novel Of Manners ◽  
The Way

Laughter takes a great many forms in the novel of manners, signifying different things at different times for different characters in different situations. Linguistics, philosophy, rhetoric, psychoanalysis, poetry, art, and film have all attempted to tackle the subject of laughter, yet in relation to manners, and the novel of manners, the matter remains fraught and underexplored. By examining laughter in Edith Wharton’s The Custom of the Country (1913), this paper attempts to show how laughter on a micro level mirrors the simulacra and simulations that comprise manners, characters, and even the progression of the novel on a macro level. What the study of laughter in The Custom of the Country reveals about knowledge, sign systems, and commodity and exchange, could nuance the way in which we read laughter in the novel of manners, a type literature built upon knowing and understanding the conditions of the personal and social simultaneously.

What Elements Belong in Group 3 of the Periodic Table?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric R. Scerri ◽  
William Parsons
Keyword(s):  
Ionization Energy ◽  
Periodic Table ◽  
Considerable Importance ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Interesting Article ◽  
Mistaken Belief ◽  
Science News ◽  
Group 3 ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Way

The question of precisely which elements should be placed in group 3 of the periodic table has been debated from time to time with apparently no resolution. This question has also received a recent impetus from several science news articles following an article in Nature Magazine in which the measurement of the ionization energy of the element lawrencium was reported for the first time. We believe that this question is of considerable importance for chemists and physicists as well as students of these subjects. It is our experience that students are typically puzzled by the fact that published periodic tables show variation in the way that group 3 is displayed. Instructors typically cannot answer questions that students may have on this matter. The aim of this chapter is to make a clear-cut recommendation regarding the membership of group 3, which we believe should consist of the elements scandium, yttrium, lutetium, and lawrencium. Although the arguments in favor of replacing lanthanum and actinium by lutetium and lawrencium are rather persuasive there is a popular and mistaken belief that IUPAC supports the traditional periodic table with lanthanum and actinium in group 3. This view has been disputed by Jeffrey Leigh in an interesting article in which he made it clear that IUPAC has not traditionally taken a view as to the correctness of any version of the periodic table and that there is no such thing as an officially approved IUPAC periodic table. We will briefly review the previous arguments that have been provided in favor of moving lutetium and lawrencium into group 3 of the periodic table in place of lanthanum and actinium. We will then reiterate what we take to be a categorical argument in favor of this placement and will discuss any remaining issues. When added to other arguments made over more than 50 years it becomes clear that the time may have arrived for IUPAC to make a ruling on this question.

scholarly journals Indeks, ikona i symbol. O stosunku fotografii, historii (czasu) i pamięci

2011 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 107-127
Author(s):  
Christoph Hamann
Keyword(s):  
Charles Sanders Peirce ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Digital Photographs ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Analysis ◽  
The Future ◽  
Collective Resource ◽  
Visual History ◽  
The Way

The Author starts with a thesis that photography and modern historiography developed at the same time, and then tries to look for relationships between the two. He starts from analyzing a specificity of a photograph which — as a medium — not only represents the past, but can be an energizing impulse both in the presence and the future. By referring to the semiotic classification of Charles Sanders Peirce, the Author describes the importance of a photograph to historical research as an index, an icon and a symbol. This helps understand the way of using a collective resource of photographs and to define a status of digital photographs as a source. Finally, the Author tries to show the perspectives of visual history analysis and the role which might be played by images when forming and changing memory communities in the era of globalization and diversification.

scholarly journals Julian is a Mermaid by J. Love

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Marriott
Keyword(s):  
Gender Norms ◽  
Body Language ◽  
Subtle Body ◽  
Ways Of Being ◽  
The Way

Love, Jessica. Julian is a Mermaid. Candlewick Press, 2018. Jessica Love’s first book, Julian is a Mermaid, lives up to her last name: it is a book about love. Julian, a young boy, dreams of being a mermaid. He and his abuela (Spanish for grandmother) go swimming every weekend and on the way home, Julian watches women in their mermaid dresses on the subway. He dreams of becoming a mermaid too, and in the end (spoiler), although he worries about his abuela’s reaction to him dressing up as a mermaid, she embraces it and takes him out to what looks like a mermaid parade. Love does not give the reader a lot of text, but the book is very easy to follow, and the images draw us in to what Julian is thinking and feeling. The muted colours used by Love for background images allows the focus to be drawn to the story itself and what Julian is both experiencing and imagining. The illustrations show us the feelings of the characters. Love manages to capture subtle body language to portray Julian’s emotions, such as him grabbing his arm in embarrassment when he is caught dressing up like a mermaid. The images remind one of the ocean, drawing us in to look deeper. The book reminds us that gender norms can be broken, and that anyone can be a mermaid. It is a hopeful story about love transcending normative ways of being. Children will benefit from reading this book as it will remind them that imaginations do not need to be constrained by strictly defined identity roles. Imagining possibilities of identities allows children to feel comfortable exploring identity. Highly recommended: 4 out of 4 starsReviewer: Emily Marriott

scholarly journals Semiotics

Communication ◽  
2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcel Danesi
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expression ◽  
English Language ◽  
International Association ◽  
Charles Sanders Peirce ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Past Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ferdinand De Saussure ◽  
Sign Systems ◽  
English Translations

Semiotics is the discipline studying the meanings, uses, and functions of signs and sign systems—a “sign” being defined as anything (a word, gesture, facial expression, and so on) that stands for something other than itself, to someone, in some capacity. Some designate this discipline as a science, others as an analytical tool or a critical method. One of its modern-day founders, the American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce (b. 1839–d. 1914), called it a “doctrine,” in the sense of a set of principles. It has also been called “semiology” by Ferdinand de Saussure (b. 1857–d. 1913), another modern-day founder. The terms “significs,” coined by Victoria Lady Welby (b. 1837–d. 1912), and “sematology” are also sometimes used. The term “semiotics” was adopted by the International Association for Semiotics Studies in 1969, becoming, ever since, the main one to designate the discipline. Debate is ongoing today about whether semiotics is a science and if it should encompass the study of nonhuman as well as human sign systems. This has led to the rise to prominence of “biosemiotics,” which aims to do exactly that. Several theoretical debates have also characterized semiotics proper for more than a century. The most important one has been whether sign construction is, in its origin, an arbitrary process, producing sign forms with no sensory, experiential, or affective connection to their referents, or if it is a “motivated” process, or generating sign forms that do. This basic debate is discussed in several core texts and in many of the theoretical works listed here. In a general annotated bibliography such as this one, selections must be made, given the extensive amount of writing that has marked the field over the past century. Also, decisions have to be made to classify certain works under particular rubrics, rather than others, because of the built-in thematic overlap of a large portion of semiotic writing. So, some listings included here under one category may be found classified under some other category elsewhere. Also, only English-language works have been listed here. This in no way implies that works in other languages are less important. On the contrary, many non-English works have been critical to the establishment and development of semiotics as a discipline. They are not included here unless they have English translations.

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