From signs of language and culture to semioses of life: appreciating Tom Sebeok’s role in the building of global semiotics

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 685-715
Author(s):  
Zdzisław Wąsik
Keyword(s):  
Research Center ◽  
First Person ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Indiana University ◽  
Founding Father ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Person Account ◽  
Career Progress

Abstract This paper is an attempt at evaluating the advancement of the conceptual and methodological framework of semiotics across its neighboring disciplines as launched and promoted by Thomas Albert Sebeok on a worldwide scale. Writing in a first-person account, the author describes, firstly, his own road to the semiotic study of linguistics, owing to the acquaintance with editorial outputs as well as with the professional proficiency of this founding father of global semiotics as a visiting scholar with an affiliation in the Research Center for Language and Semiotic Studies of Indiana University at Bloomington. And secondly, he also tries to assess the power of Sebeok’s influence on the career progress of his contemporaries, scholars, followers, and pupils. Some of them, including the author himself, acted soon after as distinguished masters of particular semiotic disciplines or organizers of international enterprises. Finally, the author provides an epistemological evaluation of semiotic thresholds in the research activities of scientists.

scholarly journals First Person Account: Living With Mental Illness

1997 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 349-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. E. Molta
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
First Person ◽  
Person Account

scholarly journals Dementia and literature

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 439-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher A. Vassilas
Keyword(s):  
Scar Tissue ◽  
First Person ◽  
Iris Murdoch ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Jewish Migration ◽  
Two Generations ◽  
Four Books ◽  
Person Account ◽  
The Uk

As we doctors are beginning to understand more and more about dementia, the public has become increasingly aware of the condition and in turn this has been reflected in the arts. This article discusses four books whose main focus is the experience of dementia, each written from an entirely different perspective: a novel giving a first-person account of dementia by the Dutch writer J. Bernlef; a biography of the famous novelist Iris Murdoch by her husband John Bayley; Linda Grant's account of her mother's multi-infarct dementia (which also describes Jewish migration to the UK two generations ago); and Michael Igniateff's autobiographical novel Scar Tissue. Such accounts, offering insights into how patients and carers feel, cannot but help make us better doctors.

Assessing Bondanella’s Impact on the Field: A First-Person Account

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 270-273
Author(s):  
Millicent Marcus
Keyword(s):  
First Person ◽  
Person Account

scholarly journals First Person Account: Finding Myself and Loving It

1984 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. O'Neal
Keyword(s):  
First Person ◽  
Person Account

scholarly journals Ways to improve professional communicative competence among cadets of FPS of Russia educational institutions of higher education

2021 ◽  
Vol 232 (9) ◽  
pp. 63-70
Author(s):  
TATYANA V. NIKITINA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Penal System ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Current State ◽  
Service Activities ◽  
Everyday Communication

The article deals with the problem of increasing the professional communicative competence of cadets of the FPS of Russia educational institutions. The article deals with the problem of increasing the professional communicative competence of cadets of the FPS of Russia educational institutions. To implement the research tasks, the following research methods were used: analysis and generalization of pedagogical and methodological literature on the topic of the work, questionnaires, observation, generalization of pedagogical experience. As a result of the work carried out, the current state of the communicative training of applicants and graduates of departmental universities has been analyzed, the importance of professional communicative competence for the further service activities of the penal system staff has been substantiated, and ways of developing this competence in the process of training at a departmental university have been proposed. The author believes that the study of the disciplines «Russian language and culture of speech» and «Russian language in business documentation» is the first stage in the formation of professional communicative competence of cadets, since it lays down communication skills that allow optimal use of the means of the Russian language not only in everyday communication, but also in professional communication. The development of this competence is positively influenced by the cadets' involvement in research activities, meetings with practitioners of the Penal system, reading various literature, as well as modern digital technologies that allow them to independently increase the level of their communicative competence. These measures will have a positive effect on the formation of the professional communicative competence of cadets, which affects the further service activities of the penal system staff.

scholarly journals First Person Account: A Personal Experience

1995 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 339-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Herrig
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
First Person ◽  
Person Account

Thinking Globally: Mandeville, Memory, and Mappaemundi

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-106
Author(s):  
John Wyatt Greenlee ◽  
Anna Fore Waymack
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
First Person ◽  
Unreliable Narrator ◽  
The World ◽  
Challenging Students ◽  
Person Account

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: THE TRAVELS OF Sir John Mandeville, the fourteenth-century "first-person" account of a fictional English knight's adventurous journey to Jerusalem and across the world, is difficult to teach.1 Popular with medieval European audiences, the book troubles today's students with its confusing descriptions of global geography, its treatment of non-Christian, non-European peoples, and its constant conflation of fact and fable. But, as those who have taught it can attest, it can serve as a valuable tool for challenging students' preconceptions of an isolated European Middle Ages. It introduces them to an unreliable narrator and to tensions between the doctrines of the institutional Roman church and individual faith. The author's global perspective shows students a world of diverse religions, ethnicities, races, diets, customs, and sexualities. And the Travels does this while being relatively short and entertaining, pulling the reader through the map via its engaging narrative of landscaped vignettes.

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