The research from this ongoing nationally funded study explores multiliteracies and multimodality in secondary schools adult education settings including a museum, dance studio, French language learning centre. There are 30 participants to date the study. Using constructivist grounded theory methodology, draws upon data face-to-face interviews, observations, document analysis, original film foo...

This paper examines the relationship between verbal and visual semiotic cues by analyzing how semiotic cues position speakers interactionally and communicate implicit evaluative messages in one television news story. The paper summarizes an analysis of this news story that my collaborator and I have done based solely on verbal cues (Wortham & Locher, 1996). Then the paper analyzes the visual cu...

Abstract The article presents an account of the visual relations created by garments through their plastic formants, examining role played form, material, and composition in creating body hierarchies that produce prescribed behaviors between different subjects. work dissects concept thematic from Greimasian theory, investigating manners which eighteenth-century wedding dress chaining programs g...

Существует достаточно исследований, доказывающих, что дом в традиционной культуре любом его воплощении – деревянном, каменном или войлочном один из символически сложных элементов культуры, концептуально наполненный мифологически вселенским смыслом. В казахской натурфилософии понятие «дом» наполнено значением, отразившимся выражении «тал бесиктен жер бесикке дейин». Смысловой перевод передает пр...

As application semantics becomes more complex and dynamic in IT systems, it is necessary to engineer the application semantics in its own lifecycle of development parallel to system engineering. The application semiotics engineering process is under study as a methodology for engineering complex and dynamic business logic in intelligent applications. It stresses the informal specification, the ...

The aims of this research are to identify and analyze the meaning verbal visual signs found in Revlon cosmetic advertisements. Data advertisements downloaded from internet at www.google.com. theory semiotics by Saussure (cited Chandler 2007) was used through signifier signified, while Barthes (1977) describe signs, both denotative connotative meanings. color also supports analysis Cerrato (2012...

Repetition, for a god, is a sign of majesty, necessity' s seal. The title' s question is not in the least meant as jocular. I am not making light about Thomas A. Sebeok' s passing away in 2001. My purpose is to remind semioticians about the void that his passing away left in the theoretical edifice of the discipline. He understood semiotics as a study that simultaneously and with a unified conc...