This article contributes to the development of a medical anthropology of sensation through providing a thick ethnographic description of pain's significance in the context of a particular community's - Yap (Federated States of Micronesia) - understandings of subjectivity, social action, and morality. After first proposing an attentional-synthetic model of the patterning of sensory experience, t...

The papers in this volume demonstrate the pervasiveness of multimodal utterances. The collaborative construction of utterances is also well known. In this chapter we explore utterances that are both multimodal and collaboratively constructed; in particular, utterances in which the gesture of one participant stands in a relation of mutual elaboration with the talk of another participant. Drawing...

Knowledge representation is central to Artificial Intelligence, since any intelligent system should include knowledge about the world and provide representations for objects, processes, properties, and relations between objects. The cognitive shift in Terminology has affected the way lexicographers and terminologists understand and describe specialized language, promoting the inclusion of semio...

Outsourcing work relies on the supplier’s interpretation of the work delegated by the client. Existing streams of outsourcing literature tend to assume that the supplier should use the same convention as the client to make sense of the work package. In this research, we use a semiotic lens to challenge this assumption by viewing such sensemaking as a process of decoding symbolic representations...

Almost all fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) use plastic-based packaging because it is easy to shape, can be colored, and raw materials are cheap. Aqua bottle uses PET (Polyethylene Terephthalate) plastic, the problem occurs when disposable becomes waste, difficult decompose, complex recycling process resulting in environmental pollution even become one of factors climate crisis. presents Life ...

HTTP transactions have semantics that can be interpreted in many ways. At a low level, a physical stream of bits is transmitted from server to client. Higher up, those bits resolve into a message with a specific bit pattern. More abstractly, information, regardless of the physical representation, has been transferred. While the mechanisms associated with these abstractions, such as content nego...

In recent years, Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) has received much attention in linguistics and pedagogy. Based on a single case analysis, it will be shown how a detailed sequential analysis of video-recordings of naturally occurring classroom interaction enables us to understand how an explanation can be accomplished collaboratively by participants in a specific language-learni...

This paper offers a conceptual framework on test design from the perspective of social semiotics. Items are defined as arrangements features intended to represent information, convey meaning, and capture information examinees’ knowledge or skills given content. The typology semiotic resources used create items discusses item representational complexity—the multiple ways in which an related each...