Contrary to this widely accepted opinion, we will present an alternative approach in this paper: Our main idea is that blind and visually impaired people relying upon tact as a main knowledge source are capable of diagrammatic reasoning very well, but use a different method for this purpose, namely the method of inductive reasoning. Such method can effectively provide the mind with the data nec...

Nowadays, Web systems generate an enormous amount of data that need to be organized, managed and retrieved in a more efficient and accurate way. Literature has brought these concerns, trying to develop techniques to allow the use of content by machines through Semantic Web technologies, such as Web ontologies. However these are still insufficient to adequately deal with aspects of information m...

In the year 2020, in context of SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, Mexico’s government implemented health policies “social distancing”. this essay, we make a theoretical reflection on policies’ effects signs’ production. The paper begins with our definition communicational habitus and semiotic relationship social distancing to analyze systems’ evolutionary control from systemic-semiotic approach.

Abstract The field of (im)politeness studies has been steadily growing and developing but the role conventionality type semiotic system (e.g., language vs. gesture) for impoliteness perception not sufficiently explored. We used a cognitive-semiotic framework combining reaction-time experiment in-depth interviews with sixty participants to explore how Russian Swedish native speakers evaluate des...

Abstract In this article, the purpose is to develop a consumer-focused understanding of authenticity within corporate heritage research. Our research question as follows: “What makes brand authentic for consumers?” We employ Peirce’s semiotic concepts icon, index and symbol analyse consumers’ perceptions Finnish Fazer , founded in 1891. study shows that childhood memories, consumer experiences ...

In this paper we discuss the semiotic functions of the psychological borders that structure the flow of narrative processes. Each narration is always a contextual, situated and contingent process of sensemaking, made possible by the creation of borders, such as dynamic semiotic devices that are capable of connecting the past and the future, the inside and the outside, and the me with the non-me...

Music structure description, i.e. the task of representing the high-level organization of music pieces in a concise, generic and reproducible way, is currently a scientific challenge both algorithmically and conceptually. In this paper, we focus on semiotic structure, i.e. the description of similarities and internal relationships within a music piece, as a low-rate stream of arbitrary symbols ...