scholarly journals Learning and education in the global sign network

Semiotica ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (234) ◽  
pp. 317-420
Author(s):  
Susan Petrilli
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Mikhail Bakhtin ◽  
University Education ◽  
General Science ◽  
Early Schooling ◽  
Charles Peirce ◽  
Present Text ◽  
Do So ◽  
Semiotic Theory

AbstractThe contribution that may come from the general science of signs, semiotics, to the planning and development of education and learning at all levels, from early schooling through to university education and learning should not be neglected. As Umberto Eco claims in the “Introduction” to the Italian edition of his book Semiotica and Philosophy of Language (1984: xii, my trans.), “[general semiotics] is Semiotica e filosofia del linguaggio. Turin: Einaudi; in nature, because it does not study a particular system, but posits the general categories in light of which different systems can be compared. And for general semiotics philosophical discourse is neither advisable nor urgent: it is simply constitutive.” To the title of their book Semiotic Theory of Learning, at the centre of our attention in the present text, Andrew Stables, Winfried Nöth, Alin Olteanu, Sébastien Pesce, and Eetu Pikkarainen, rightly add the subtitle New Perspectives in the Philosophy of Education. This multivoiced contribution to research in learning and education in a semiotic framework has a unifying reference in the semiotics of Charles S. Peirce, but without disregarding an array of other distinguished exponents of the teaching and education sciences from different disciplines, semioticians and philosophers alike. This book, a polyphonic effort, with its appeal to “act otherwise,” and to do so investing in learning and education, no doubt makes a significant contribution in such a direction: education for transformation, for humanizing social change. Beyond evidencing what to us are particularly interesting aspects of the topics under discussion in Semiotic Theory of Learning, we also propose to continue and amplify this multivoiced dialogue. While highlighting still other aspects and contributions made by the same semioticians and philosophers presented by the authors of this book, involving such figures as Charles Peirce, Charles Morris, Thomas Sebeok, John Deely, etc., we have further introduced other voices made to resound throughout, whether directly or indirectly, like that of Victoria Welby, Mikhail Bakhtin, Emmanuel Levinas, Adam Schaff, Ferruccio Rossi-Landi, Marcel Danesi, Augusto Ponzio, and Genevieve Vaughan.

Vision of the Other

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Petrilli
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Mikhail Bakhtin ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Verbal Art ◽  
Philosophical Reflection ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Russian Philosopher ◽  
Literary Writing

This article describes how the pathways and modalities through which self-consciousness and self-valuation are reached are closely interdependent with the vision of others. But the vision of the other can never be known directly by any one of us, not even in the other's presence: even when I am in front of the gaze of the other, the other is always the other-for-me. Neither studies of the psychological or psychoanalytical orders, nor those conducted in the sphere of philosophical reflection oriented autonomously from other spheres can contribute to a semiotics of the image of self as this is construed interpreting the signs of the vision of the other. Literary writing above all can contribute in this sense. The Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin resorts to literature, verbal art for his semiotics and philosophy of language and is often interpreted mistakenly as a literary critic precisely because of this. In this framework, he analyses the signs forming one's own image of self for each one of us, in the interlacement between I-for-myself, the other-for-me, I-for-the-other.

The Monologic Imagination

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Mikhail Bakhtin ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Design ◽  
Do So

The pioneering and hugely influential work of Mikhail Bakhtin has led scholars in recent decades to see all discourse and social life as inherently “dialogical.” No speaker speaks alone because our words are always partly shaped by our interactions with others, past and future. Moreover, we never fashion ourselves entirely by ourselves but always do so in concert with others. Bakhtin thus decisively reshaped modern understandings of language and subjectivity. And yet, the contributors to this volume argue that something is potentially overlooked with too close a focus on dialogism: many speakers, especially in charged political and religious contexts, work energetically at crafting monologues, single-voiced statements to which the only expected response is agreement or faithful replication. Drawing on ethnographic case studies from the United States, Iran, Cuba, Indonesia, Algeria, and Papua New Guinea, the authors argue that a focus on “the monologic imagination” gives us new insights into languages’ political design and religious force, and deepens our understandings of the necessary interplay between monological and dialogical tendencies.

scholarly journals Motherhood and the Machine

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-69
Author(s):  
Miglena Nikolchina
Keyword(s):  
Animal Studies ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Ethical Perspective ◽  
Theoretical Orientations ◽  
The Third ◽  
Battlestar Galactica ◽  
To Come ◽  
The One ◽  
Philosophical Debates ◽  
Present Text

In her conceptualization of the human as defined by the capacity for revolt Kristeva unavoidably touches upon issues of robotization, technology, and the virtual. The concepts of animal and machine, however, although they do appear occasionally and in important ways, are never at the focus of her inquiries and are absent in her “New Forms of Revolt.” Yet these two concepts to a large extent define the field of contemporary philosophical debates of the human giving rise to three major theoretical orientations. On the one hand, there is the trend which tries to come to terms with technological novelties and the merging of human and machine that they imply. This trend unfolds under the rubric of “transhuman” or “posthuman” and of the “enhancement” of man. The second trend predominates in animal studies. Mostly in an ethical perspective but also ontologically, this trend, to which Derrida’s later writing made a significant contribution, questions the idea of the “human exception” and the rigorous distinction between man and animal on which this exception rests. While apparently antagonistic, both trends align the human with the animal and oppose it to technology. The third trend collapses the distinctions on which the previous two rely through the lens of biopolitics: drawing on Heidegger, Kojève, and Foucault, it regards contemporary technological transformations as amounting to the animalization of man.  The human disappears in the animal, in the machine, or in the indistinguishability of the two, confirming what Agamben has described as the inoperativeness of the anthropological machine. The present text turns to Kristeva’s conceptions of motherhood and revolt as introducing a powerful inflection in this tripartite field. Remarkably, it is precisely new sagas of rebellious machines like Battlestar “Galactica” that foreground the relevance of Kristeva’s approach.

scholarly journals Philosophical implications of Morris’ semiotic theory

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-125
Author(s):  
Milos Bogdanovic
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
The Other ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Ontological Category ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Consistent Application ◽  
Semiotic Theory

The subject of this paper is Charles Morris? semiotic theory that has as one of its major projects the unification of all sciences of signs. However, since the above project has proven to be unsuccessful, we will try to examine here the reasons that led to this. Accordingly, we will argue that to transcend the particularities of individual disciplines that he wanted to unify, Morris had to make certain ontological assumptions, instead of theoretical and methodological ones, that they could share. However, because the ?sign? as an ontological category could in our view only be established if we follow the principles of the pragmatic philosophical tradition, we will try to show that the reasons for this failure should be primarily sought in different effects that consistent application of the pragmatic principles has in each of them (primarily in linguistics and the philosophy of language). On the other hand, this should enable us to draw several important conclusions regarding Morris? project: namely, that his failure does not have to mean giving up semiotics as a potentially key discipline in approaching some fundamental philosophical problems, but also that it would demand return to the original semiotics developed in Peirce?s works.

scholarly journals The Oxford Handbook of Reasons and Normativity

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Mind ◽  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Recent Philosophy ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Do So

The Oxford Handbook of Reasons and Normativity contains forty-four commissioned chapters on a wide range of topics. It will appeal especially to readers with an interest in ethics or epistemology, but also to those with an interest in philosophy of mind or philosophy of language. Both students and academics will benefit from the fact that the Handbook combines helpful overviews with innovative contributions to current debates. A diverse selection of substantive positions are defended by leading proponents of the views in question. Few concepts have received as much attention in recent philosophy as the concept of a reason. This is the first edited collection to provide broad coverage of the study of reasons and normativity across multiple philosophical subfields. In addition to focusing on reasons as part of the study of ethics and as part of the study of epistemology (as well as focusing on reasons as part of the study of the philosophy of language and as part of the study of the philosophy of mind), the Handbook covers recent developments concerning the nature of normativity in general. A number of the contributions to the Handbook explicitly address such “metanormative” issues, bridging subfields as they do so.

scholarly journals REFLEXÕES SOBRE OS DESDOBRAMENTOS ONTOLÓGICOS DA OBRA DE KAREN BLIXEN: minha fazenda na África

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Priscila Marchiori Dal Gallo
Keyword(s):  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Literary Creation ◽  
Karen Blixen ◽  
Out Of Africa ◽  
Ontological Sense ◽  
Isak Dinesen ◽  
Present Text ◽  
Do So

A literatura pode ser entendida como uma expressão poética e lírica das vivências e experiências do escritor. Dentro desse contexto, a escrita se figura como uma possibilidade de autocompreensão e de reflexões diante de questões humanas universais. A literatura desvela o Ser, não só do autor, mas também o Ser humano. Buscamos pensar sobre tal entendimento da literatura na obra de Isak Dinesen: Minha Fazenda na África. Para tanto exploramos e refletimos no presente texto as conexões entre: escritor e obra; leitor e obra; escritor-leitor-obra para assim avançarmos mais especificamente para as ponderações a respeito das conexões entre a escrita de Isak Dinesen e as experiências de Karen Blixen. Pelas vias do tom autobiográfico de Minha Fazenda na África, entrecruzamos a escritora e seu pseudônimo de modo a desvendar as motivações, anseios, devaneios e escapismos que estão envolvidos no ato de criação literária de Karen e que desvelam o sentido ontológico de sua escrita.Palavras-chave: Literatura. Experiência. Escapismo.REFLECTIONS ON THE ONTOLOGICAL RAMIFICATIONS OF THE ART OF KAREN BLIXEN: out of AfricaAbstract: Literature can be understood as a poetical and lyric expression of the experiences of the writer. Inside of this context, the writing configures itself as a possibility of self-understanding and reflections in front of questions of universal human beings. Literature reveals the Being, not only of the author, but also the Human being. We seek to think about such understanding of the literature on the work of Isak Dinesen: Out of Africa. In order to do so we explore and reflect in the present text about the connections between: writer and work; reader and work; writer-reader-work thus to advance more specifically for the considerations regarding the connections between the writing of Isak Dinesen and the experiences of Karen Blixen. Through the autobiographical tone of Out of Africa, we intercross the writer and its pseudonym in order to unmask the motivations, desires, dreams and escapisms that are involved in the act of Karen' literary creation which unveil the ontological sense of her writing.Keywords: Literature. Experience. Escapism.REFLEXIONES SOBRE LAS RAMIFICACIONES ONTOLÓGICAS DE LA OBRA DE KAREN BLIXEN: mi hacienda en ÁfricaResumen: La literatura puede ser entendida como una expresión poética y lírica de las vivencias y experiencias del escritor. Dentro de este contexto, la escritura se presenta como una posibilidad de autocomprensióny de las reflexiones delante de las preguntas universales de los seres humanos. La literatura revela el Ser, no sólo del autor, sino también del Ser humano. Tratamos de pensar en esa comprensión de la literatura en la obra de Isak Dinesen: mi hacienda en África. De tal manera exploramos y reflejamos en este texto sobre las conexiones: escritor y obra; lector y obra; escritor-lector-obra y así a avanzar más específicamente para las consideraciones con respecto a las conexiones entre la escritura de Isak Dinesen y las experiencias de Karen Blixen. A través del tono autobiográfico de Memorias de África, entrecruzamos el escritor y su seudónimo para desenmascarar las motivaciones, los deseos, los sueños y los escapismos que intervienen en el acto de la creación literaria de Karen y que devela el sentido ontológico de su escritura.Palabras clave: Literatura. Experiencia. Escapismo.

scholarly journals Circulation of Knowledge and the Production of Scientific Facts: Proposing an Analytical Trajectory for Texts in Science Education

2021 ◽  
pp. e29398
Author(s):  
Joselaine Setlik ◽  
Henrique César da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Mikhail Bakhtin ◽  
The Social ◽  
Linguistic Dimension ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Scientific Facts ◽  
Circulation Of Knowledge

In this study, considering the interrelationship between epistemology and language, based on the theories of Ludwik Fleck and Mikhail Bakhtin, we propose an analytical trajectory for texts that circulate scientific knowledge. For this, we first give visibility to the way Fleck intertwines the social, the language (and the text) and the epistemological. Then, we present elements of Bakhtin’s philosophy of language that can analytically and theoretically deepen the social-linguistic dimension of textual productions in science. This theoretical articulation, among such authors, is systematized through questions that may enable researchers and Higher Education professors or Basic Education teachers to reflect on the role of the various texts that circulate scientific knowledge. Studying the materiality of the texts that circulate science can contribute to the process of production, incorporation and mediation of readings of such materials in the different teaching-learning contexts of the disciplines of Science Education. It also contributes to the construction of knowledge in the field of research in Science Education.

scholarly journals To the description of semiotic theory in the tradition of Chinese Linguistics

Litera ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 171-180
Author(s):  
Yui Chzhan
Keyword(s):  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Academic Environment ◽  
Russian Science ◽  
Special Contribution ◽  
Chinese Scholar ◽  
Ferdinand De Saussure ◽  
Russian Linguistic ◽  
Semiotic Theory

The Russian scholars often associate semiotics with such names as Ferdinand De Saussure, Charles Morris, Roland Barthes, who wrote a wide variety of works and significantly contributed to the formation of semiotics. Therefore, the Russian science has sound understanding of semiotics in Europe. In Asian regions, namely in China, semiotics is also one of the most popular trends. This article gives special attention to the formation and development of semiotics in the modern Chinese academic environment for the purpose of revealing and clarifying the key periods of study of semiotic theory, trends and directions of semiotic research, as well as the main works written by the Chinese authors from the perspective of semiotics. The author's special contribution into this research consists in introduction to the Russian linguistic paradigm of the process of formation of semiotics as an independent scientific direction within the Chinese academic environment. Description is provided to the three key periods of development and advancement of semiotic theories in China. The main trends and directions of research in the modern academic environment are explored. The article features the works of the prominent Chinese linguists – Yaping Huang and Hua Meng, who implemented  the semiotic ideas into the study of ideographic writing. The article also examines the work of the renowned Chinese scholar Qian Guanlian, who studied the pragmalinguistic aspects from the perspective of semiotics, which allowed comprising a semiotic base of the communication theory and pragmatics, and thus made a significant contribution to further research of these trends.

scholarly journals 'for their own purpose of identity': Tom Stannage and Australian Local History

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 68-79
Author(s):  
David Carment
Keyword(s):  
Significant Contribution ◽  
New South ◽  
Local History ◽  
Historical Inquiry ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Historical Societies ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Do So

Tom Stannage made a significant contribution to Australian local history and regularly returned to it throughout his career, frequently speaking and writing about the local past and collaborating with the community organisations that promoted it. In the context of Stannage's perspectives, the work of some other historians and the author's experiences, this article briefly reflects on the state of local history in Australia and the role of local historical societies. The focus is on New South Wales and the Northern Territory, the parts of Australia that the author knows best, but some attention is also given to the rest of the country. The article considers why the work of local historians and historical societies matters in understanding the bigger picture of Australian history. The various attempts to tell the stories of individual communities quite frequently by and for local residents themselves encourage speculation on their contributions to the broader process of historical inquiry. Local history is, as Stannnage strongly believed it ought to be, usually a democratic phenomenon and one that allows a diverse range of approaches. The historical societies that survive and develop do so because they are solidly based in their communities. Perhaps even more crucial, the data of the past that local historical societies have often unearthed and recorded help allow Australians to shape what Stannage so aptly described as a 'history for their own purposes of identity'.

Ogden, C. K. (1889–1957)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Beard
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Scientific Method ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Thomas Hardy ◽  
Carl Jung ◽  
George Bernard Shaw ◽  
Modernist Literature ◽  
Jean Piaget ◽  
Bernard Shaw ◽  
Triadic Model

British writer, publisher and scholar Charles Kay Ogden was active in the field of linguistics and language. He is best known for The Meaning of Meaning (1923), a book co-authored with I. A. Richards, which would change semiotics permanently by offering a triadic model, consisting of symbol, referent and thought, which would replace Ferdinand de Saussure’s dyadic semiotics of signifier and signified. Ogden was active in the proliferation of English modernist literature and thought as the editor and publisher of several periodicals: Cambridge Magazine, which published notables like Thomas Hardy and George Bernard Shaw as well as Ogden’s own work; Psyche: A Journal of General and Linguistic Psychology, which he founded in 1920; and The International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method, which published works by Carl Jung, T. E. Hulme, Max Black, Jean Piaget, Bronisław Malinowski, G. E. Moore and others. Ogden edited Jeremy Bentham’s Theory of Fictions (1932), but his most significant contribution as an editor was to commission F. P. Ramsey (1903–1930) to translate into English Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, a work that would alter the course of philosophy of language.

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