Võõra semiootiline modelleerimine Eesti lähiajaloos
Semiotic modelling of other in contemporary history of Estonia

Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on construction of identity and the transformation of it in the period of radical changes in socio-cultural setting. Identity can be seen as a coherent discourse (or text) through which the homogeneity of a cultural system is established. This system implicitly demarcates itself from the extra-semiotic reality or a reality of certain other semiotic system. Our research topic is migration of people in Estonia’s recent past. Specifically we are interested in those non-Estonian speaking migrants that came to Estonia in 1960s. How different kind of practices of signification have been used and how they transform and co-exist also in Estonian nowadays public (declared) discourse are the questions which we try to discuss by using theoretical ideas of the Tartu-Moscow School of cultural semiotics, the concept of dialogue by Mikhail Bahktin and George Schöpflin’s concept of identity.

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