culler, jonathan. (2001). the pursuit of signs: semiotics, literature, deconstruction. london: routledge.

Deconstruction-reconstruction of Computer Game and Immersive Environment Semiotics

Computer game technology produces compelling ‘immersive environments’ where our digitally-native youth play and explore. Players absorb visual, auditory and other signs and process these in real time, making rapid choices on how to move through the game-space to experience ‘meaningful play’. How can immersive environments be designed to elicit perception and understanding of signs? In this pape...

The Standard Model in 2001 Jonathan

The “Standard Model” of elementary particle physics encompasses the progress that has been made in the past half-century in understanding the weak, electromagnetic, and strong interactions. The name was apparently bestowed by my Ph. D. thesis advisor, Sam B. Treiman, whose dedication to particle physics kindled the light for so many of his students during those times of experimental and theoret...

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Literature

The Dialogic Nature of Signs “ Semiotics Institute on Line ” 8 lectures for the “ Semiotics Institute

As stated in the previous lecture, if we do not take into account Baktins's global (see his notion of 'big experience') and biosemiotic view towards the complex and intricate life of signs, we will not understand the role in his work of the relation between 'dialogism' and 'carnivalesque'. The latter is formulated in Bakhtin's study on Rabelais and then also used in the revised edition (1963) o...

1993 Twentieth-Century Poetry: From Text to Context (London: Routledge).

This collection of essays contributes to the field of hypertext and cyber-culture studies, which has developed in parallel with the Internet and the World Wide Web over the past ten years. Its main purpose is to elaborate and apply to the field a new rhetoric that would be suitable and original. Or, as Espen Aarseth puts it in the introduction to ''Aporia and Epiphany in Doom and the Speaking C...

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...