The Music of Meaning
The Music of Meaning

Author: Per Aage Brandt

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2019-08-30

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 1527539261

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This book is about meaning in music, poetry, and language; it is about signs: symbols, icons, diagrams, and more. It concerns art and how we communicate, how we make sense to each other—including the concept of nonsense. It is about metaphor and irony. It embraces a vast human universe of signification and some of its cognitive machines of meaning-making: a complex and diverse unfolding of the expressive human mind. These 24 essays study different aspects of the way we signify, present recent research and models of such processes, and discuss the—often intricate—problems of understanding the relations between expression and thought. In evolution, music may have preceded the language of words, and music remains indirectly present in every temporal unfolding of bodily, affective, playful, meaningful activity. We are immersed in meaning and have to ‘listen’ to it since it constitutes the semiotic reality structuring the world as we experience it.

On Meaning-making
On Meaning-making

Author: Mieke Bal

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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This book aims to address the basic questions in semiotics, the theory of signs. What is semiotics? How is it used? how is it taught?

On Meaning-making
On Meaning-making

Author: Mieke Bal

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13:

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This book aims to address the basic questions in semiotics, the theory of signs. What is semiotics? How is it used? how is it taught?

The Empire of Signs
The Empire of Signs

Author: Yoshihiko Ikegami

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 9027232784

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Like Roland Barthes' well-known book, "L Empire des signes," from which the title of the present collection is taken, this volume contains essays dealing with certain aspects of Japanese culture.""

The Music of Meaning
The Music of Meaning

Author: Per Aage Brandt

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2019-09

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9781527535824

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This book is about meaning in music, poetry, and language; it is about signs: symbols, icons, diagrams, and more. It concerns art and how we communicate, how we make sense to each otherâ "including the concept of nonsense. It is about metaphor and irony. It embraces a vast human universe of signification and some of its cognitive machines of meaning-making: a complex and diverse unfolding of the expressive human mind. These 24 essays study different aspects of the way we signify, present recent research and models of such processes, and discuss theâ "often intricateâ "problems of understanding the relations between expression and thought. In evolution, music may have preceded the language of words, and music remains indirectly present in every temporal unfolding of bodily, affective, playful, meaningful activity. We are immersed in meaning and have to â ~listenâ (TM) to it since it constitutes the semiotic reality structuring the world as we experience it.

"Tsar and God" and Other Essays in Russian Cultural Semiotics

Author: Victor Zhivov

Publisher: Ars Rossica

Published: 2018-05-30

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9781618118042

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Featuring a number of pioneering essays by the internationally known Russian cultural historians Boris Uspenskij and Victor Zhivov, this collection includes a number of essays appearing in English for the fi rst time. Focusing on several of the most interesting and problematic aspects of Russia's cultural development, these essaysexamine the survival and the reconceptualization of the past in later cultural systems and some of the key transformations of Russian cultural consciousness. The essays in this collection contain some important examples of Russian cultural semiotics and remain indispensable contributions to the history of Russian civilization.