Knowledge, complexity, power: social semiotics as metadiscipline

Semiotics of Power and Knowledge in Nasir Khusrow's Travelogue

Nasir Khosrow embarks upon a seven year journey in order to come to terms with his spiritual crisis. The quest was the inevitable outcome of the tensions and conflicts between Nasir and the institutionalized forms of power and knowledge. The tensions lead to the formation of a series of binary oppositions—verbal and nonverbal—within the text of his travelogue. The researchers have analyzed the ...

Introducing Social Semiotics

semiotics of power and knowledge in nasir khusrow's travelogue

nasir khosrow embarks upon a seven year journey in order to come to terms with his spiritual crisis. the quest was the inevitable outcome of the tensions and conflicts between nasir and the institutionalized forms of power and knowledge. the tensions lead to the formation of a series of binary oppositions—verbal and nonverbal—within the text of his travelogue. the researchers have analyzed the ...

Semiotics of Terminology: A Semiotic Knowledge Profile

It is not possible to organize knowledge using universalistic knowledge theories in accordance with any realistic theory and it is not possible to represent knowledge in a thesaurus structure simply because the thesaurus is too rigid to compensate for the conceivable bearings of a concept. Furthermore the author does not believe that knowledge is actually organized the same way that a thesaurus...

Semiotics for Ontologies and Knowledge Representation

The Semantic Web implies the comprehensive use of the main semiotic postulates on the Web. One of the most important facts about human understanding comes from the area of linguistics and semiotics. The semiotic techniques, such as syntagm and paradigm are explained through the examples in learning environment, in the context of logical understanding and knowledge representation on the Web.