Measuring diagram quality through semiotic morphisms

Semiotica ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (239) ◽  
pp. 125-145
Author(s):  
Guy Clarke Marshall ◽  
André Freitas
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Category Theory ◽  
Quality Measures ◽  
Communication Media ◽  
Expert Assessment ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Feedback ◽  
History Of ◽  
Quality Dimensions ◽  
Diagrammatic Representations

Abstract This paper outlines a method to assess the effectiveness of diagrams, from semiotic foundations. In doing so, we explore the Peircian notion of signification, as applied to diagrammatic representations. We review a history of diagrams, with particular emphasis on schematics used for representing systems, and uncover the neglect of semiotic analysis of diagrammatic representations. Through application of category theory to the Peircian triadic model, we propose a set of quantitative quality measures for diagrams, and a framework for their assessment, based on the properties of their encoding, pragmatic and perceptual morphisms. These measures include diagram complexity, utility, aesthetics and expert assessment of semiotic content, together with qualitative feedback. We consider the diagrams as an aid to cognitive processes, rather than a purely communication media. This utility-focused perspective on diagram quality dimensions allows for fresh insights into the creation of effective diagrams.

Elaborating the role of reflection and individual differences in the study of folk-economic beliefs

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Arceneaux
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Evolutionary History ◽  
Behavioral Responses ◽  
History Of ◽  
Economic Beliefs

AbstractIntuitions guide decision-making, and looking to the evolutionary history of humans illuminates why some behavioral responses are more intuitive than others. Yet a place remains for cognitive processes to second-guess intuitive responses – that is, to be reflective – and individual differences abound in automatic, intuitive processing as well.

scholarly journals Comparative variationism for the study of language change: five centuries of competition amongst Spanish deontic periphrases

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Luis Blas Arroyo
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Language Change ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Common Factor ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Auxiliary Verbs ◽  
Complementary Distribution ◽  
Modal Verb ◽  
History Of

AbstractBased on a corpus composed entirely of texts close to the pole of communicative immediacy, mainly private letters from the sixteenth, eighteenth and twentieth centuries (c. 1960), this paper analyses the results of a variationist study on the historical evolution undergone by the Spanish modal periphrases with three distinct auxiliary verbs (haber, tener, deber). Using the heuristic tools of the comparative method, the data show that variation has been constrained by a handful of common factor groups over almost five centuries. Nonetheless, with the odd exception, these factors have conditioned each verb in a different way. Moreover, the sense of this variation changes as time goes by, with especially relevant reorganisation in the first part of the twentieth century. Furthermore, there is a notable association between these constraints and the degree of markedness and the frequency of the conditioning contexts, giving support to a usage-based approach to language change in which cognitive processes such as entrenchment play a decisive role. These data also allow a particular profile to be traced for each modal verb in the history of Spanish, in which tener and haber finally undergo a complementary distribution, whereas deber follows a different pattern. After several centuries of stagnation, tener becomes the star in the deontic firmament of spontaneous communication, diffusing abruptly as a change from below in the twentieth century, and replacing haber, which had been the unmarked variant for centuries.

scholarly journals Visualisasi dan Transformasi Kebertubuhan Dalam Film Animasi Planes (Ke Arah Pembentukan Mitos Baru)

Panggung ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Acep Iwan Saidi ◽  
Agung Eko Budiwaspada
Keyword(s):  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Living Things ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Culture ◽  
Primary Orality ◽  
The Mind ◽  
As If

ABSTRACTThis research is entitled “Visualization and Transformation of Embodiment in the Film of Planes Animation”. As an animation film, Planes is interesting because it is using inanimate objects, in this case the planes, as characters. This fact indicates that the character transformation is done by an animator, from the character of inanimate objects in to live character. By using the methods of structural and semiotic analysis, found that the transformation is done not only for personification (it is made as if the inanimate objects becomes alive). In the Planes, “the living things” not only exist in the mind as imagination, but it is exist out of the mind, as an autonomous reality. Based on that, Planes is the animation film which opens space for creating a new myth in the history of culture. Like the fable as a myth in the tradition of primary orality, Planes allows the formation of myth in digital oral tradition.Key Words: Transformation, visualization, embodiment, personification, metaphor, tradition, myth ABSTRAKPenelitian ini bertajuk “Visualisasi dan Transformasi Kebertubuhan dalam Film Animasi Planes”.Sebagai film animasi, Planes menarik karena menggunakan benda-benda mati, dalam hal ini pesawat, sebagai tokoh cerita. Fakta ini mengindikasikan dilakukannya transformasi karakte r ole h animator, yakni dari karakte r “yang mati” ke “yang hidup”.Dengan menggunakan metode analisis structural dan semiotik, ditemukan bahwa transformasi tersebut dilakukan melampaui sarana retorika personifikasi (membuatseolah- olah yang mati menjadi hidup).Di dalam Planes, “yang hidup” itu tidak berada di dalam pikiran dan imajinasi apresiator sebagai yang seolah-olah, melainkan hadir di luar pikiran, berdiri sendiri sebagai realita sotonom. Berdasarkan hal itu, Planes merupakan film animasi yang membuka ruang bagi terciptanya mitos baru dalam sejarah cerita. Jika fable merupakan mitos dalam tradisi kelisanan primer, Planes memungkinkan terbentuknya mitos dalam tradisi lisan digital.Kata kunci: transformasi, visualisasi, kebertubuhan, personifikasi, metafora, tradisi, mitos.

ICONOLOGICAL METHOD IN SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS OF ARTWORKS

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 92-99
Author(s):  
А. А. Gruzdev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Art Criticism ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Semiotic Approach ◽  
History Of ◽  
Erwin Panofsky ◽  
Symbolic Content ◽  
Structural Mechanisms ◽  
First Time

The history of art is marked by many experiments in expanding and contrasting different methods and concepts. Nevertheless, in recent years there have been increasing attempts to draw parallels between iconology and semiotics. Of particular interest is the so-called Erwin Panofsky method, which forms the basis of modern iconology. The article discusses various aspects of the use of the iconological method in connection with the semiotic analysis of artistic works. Both general questions of the formation of iconology and special questions of its application and synthesis in the context of semiotic analysis are highlighted. A brief overview of the main iconological principles in revealing the figurative and symbolic content of the work is given, and the main features of the structural mechanisms underlying the semiotic approach are summarized. The scientific novelty of the work is determined primarily by the fact that for the first time the peculiarities of the application of the iconological method as one of the tools of semiotic analysis are investigated. Semiotics and iconology have a wide range of application in the study of culture-specific relations, since in contemporary art criticism, there is a great scientific interest in understanding the artwork as a carrier of national-cultural information. All this increases the methodological possibilities for studying the artwork, and thus expands the boundaries of the historical study of fine art.

Rhythm Quantization: Notes on the History of a Technocultural Practice

2021 ◽  
pp. 340-365
Author(s):  
Landon Morrison
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Western Music ◽  
Theoretical Knowledge ◽  
Music Culture ◽  
Apparent Contradiction ◽  
History Of ◽  
Musical Genres ◽  
Sound Technology

This chapter sketches a general history of rhythm quantization as a widespread practice in popular music culture. Quantization—a sound technology that automatically maps microrhythmic fluctuations onto the nearest beat available within a predefined metric grid—challenges traditional notions of musicking as an embodied activity that is grounded in the co-presence of human agents. At the same time, it encapsulates cultural and cognitive processes that are entirely human, fitting into a broader historical shift towards chronometric precision in Western music. Questions arising from this apparent contradiction are taken up in this chapter, which situates rhythm quantization as an emergent technocultural practice, examining its attendant technologies and requisite structures of music-theoretical knowledge, as well as its reception within the context of different musical genres.

Table Lands

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kara K. Keeling ◽  
Scott T. Pollard
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Black Panthers ◽  
Jewish Immigration ◽  
Social Work Theory ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Children’S Agency ◽  
History Of ◽  
Anglo American

Table Lands: Food in Children's Literature surveys food’s function in children’s texts, showing how the socio-cultural contexts of food reveal children’s agency through examining texts that vary from historical to contemporary, non-canonical to classics, the Anglo-American to multicultural traditions, including a variety of genres, formats, and audiences: realism, fantasy, cookbooks, picture books, chapter books, YA novels, and film. The first chapter tracks children’s cookbooks over 150 years to show how adults’ expectations change based on shifting ideologies of child capability. Subsequent chapters survey canonical authors. Social work theory, British rural and urban cultures, and poverty inform the analysis of the foodways that underlie Beatrix Potter’s animal tales. Investigating Jewish immigration and foodways, food manufacturing, and roadside/programmatic architecture reveals Maurice Sendak’s In the Night Kitchen as an immigrant Jewish and natively American work. A.A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh books work as a künstlerroman; Mary Douglas’s semiotic analysis and the history of honey and bees show Pooh as a poet who celebrates food. Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books contrast with Louise Erdrich’s Birchbark series: differing foodways showcase competing cultural and environmental values. The final chapters examine intersections of geography, history, and food in contemporary texts. Francesca Lia Block’s Dangerous Angels reflects Los Angeles culture. Disney•Pixar’s Ratatouille showcases French haute cuisine in its story of otherness. In One Crazy Summer and its sequels, Rita Williams-Garcia tracks the movement of African American internal diasporas, through southern foodways, soul food, and the Black Panthers’ breakfast program. Refugee Studies demonstrate how food is a primary signifier of the difficulties posed by forced migration in Thanhha Lai’s Inside Out & Back Again.

Mathematical fixation: Search viewed through a cognitive lens

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Phillips ◽  
Yuji Takeda
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Ability ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Category Theory ◽  
Sufficient Condition ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient Condition ◽  
Universal Construction ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient

AbstractWe provide a mathematical category theory account of the size and location of the authors' Functional View Field (FVF). Category theory explains systematic cognitive ability via universal construction, that is, a necessary and sufficient condition for composition of cognitive processes. Similarly, FVF size and location is derived from a (universal) construction called a fibre (pullback) bundle.

Expectations, observations, and the cognitive processes that bind them: expert assessment of examinee performance

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 627-642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina St-Onge ◽  
Martine Chamberland ◽  
Annie Lévesque ◽  
Lara Varpio
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Expert Assessment

scholarly journals Why developmental psychology is incomplete without comparative and cross-cultural perspectives

2016 ◽  
Vol 371 (1686) ◽  
pp. 20150071 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Nielsen ◽  
Daniel Haun
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
Animal Models ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
Theme Issue ◽  
Cultural Perspectives ◽  
Link Type ◽  
History Of

As a discipline, developmental psychology has a long history of relying on animal models and data collected among distinct cultural groups to enrich and inform theories of the ways social and cognitive processes unfold through the lifespan. However, approaches that draw together developmental, cross-cultural and comparative perspectives remain rare. The need for such an approach is reflected in the papers by Heyes (2015 Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 371, 20150069. ( doi:10.1098/rstb.2015.0069 )), Schmelz & Call (2015 Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 371, 20150067. ( doi:10.1098/rstb.2015.0067 )) and Keller (2015 Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 371, 20150070. ( doi:10.1098/rstb.2015.0070 )) in this theme issue. Here, we incorporate these papers into a review of recent research endeavours covering a range of core aspects of social cognition, including social learning, cooperation and collaboration, prosociality, and theory of mind. In so doing, we aim to highlight how input from comparative and cross-cultural empiricism has altered our perspectives of human development and, in particular, led to a deeper understanding of the evolution of the human cultural mind.

scholarly journals Meningkatkan ketuntasan belajar siswa dengan model pembelajaran introduction, connection, aplication, reflection dan extension Kelas VIII dalam tema narrative text pola dakwah Nabi Muhammad SAW. di Madinah mata pelajaran SKI di MTs Negeri Krian Sidoarjo

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Syu'aib Nawawi
Keyword(s):  
Peer Assessment ◽  
Learning Model ◽  
Narrative Text ◽  
Expert Assessment ◽  
Islamic Culture ◽  
Learning Tool ◽  
Average Value ◽  
History Of ◽  
Class Viii ◽  
Propagation Pattern

One of the learning models that includes a series of planned learning experiences arranged in a systematic, operational, and directed way to help students master specific learning objectives is an ICARE learning tool. The objectives of this research are: 1) To compile the learning model of Intellection, connection, aplication, reflection, extension of Class VIII in theme "narrative text of propagation pattern of Prophet Muhammad SAW. In Medina "subjects History of Islamic Culture in MTs Negeri Krian Sidoarjo 2) To analyze the learning model of ICARE (Introduction, connection, aplication, reflection, extension) can improve the learning completeness of Class VIII in theme" narrative text propagation pattern of Prophet Muhammad SAW. In Medina "subjects History of Islamic Culture in MTs Negeri Krian Sidoarjo ?. From the results of this research development can be concluded: 1) ICARE learning device products reviewed from students in MTs Negeri Krian Sidoarjo Fair enough, with a score of 3.53, (enough), from peer assessment no less than 3.0., With qualifications 4.15 (Good), no expert assessment of less than 3.0., With qualification 4.15 (Good) 2) ICARE learning tool product can improve student learning outcomes in MTs Negeri Krian Sidoarjo, from trial class experience improvement in mastery with average value Average Pre test 81.25 increased at the test post 88.13 while the percentage of pre-test completeness was 71.88% increased to 96.88%.

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