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AÇIL KAPI AÇIL VE AÇIL BAHÇE AÇIL ADLI ESERLERE GÖSTERGEBİLİMSEL AÇIDAN KARŞILAŞTIRMALI BİR YAKLAŞIM

Author(s): Berkant Örkün,Medine Sivri / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 01/2013

It is vital to do research in the field of children’s and youth literature in order to improve the field which is new and has made much progress in Turkey in the last decade. The contemporary author of children’s and youth literature Aytül Akal aims to bring the child into a subject rather than an object and handle the child’s reality in modern conditions in her poetry and prose. Semiology, which has emerged as a result of the developments in linguistics at the beginning of the 20th century and which flourished in the 1960’s and being used to analyze works in several fields, such as photography, architecture, theatre, fashion, cinema, has been adopted by many theorists. This method is especially used to analyze written texts. Semiology tries to re-read the creation process of the meaning in texts and exposes all the formation stages including surface structure and deep structure by examining the layers of the meaning of a text. The aim of this study is to re-read the creation process of the works Açıl Kapı Açıl (Open Door!) and Açıl Bahçe Açıl (Open Garden!) created for children aged of 5-7 by author Aytül Akal and illustrator Mustafa Delioğlu through a semiological approach and to make a comparison between the two texts in terms of narrativity and discursivity. We also analyze intersign relations of front covers and back covers. This study is based on the semiological model of Algirdas Julien Greimas.

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O semiotici i književnosti

Author(s): Miroslav Beker / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 2/1986

The author discusses a variety of semiotic approaches to literature. The first three studies (considered in the paper) take Greimas as their starting point: Fredric Jameson historicizing his basic pattern, Everaert-Desmedt accepting Greimas without reservations, while Angelika Sparmacher is sceptical about the universal applicability of his semiotics. Robert Scholes offers a more eclectic version of semiotics applied to literature, willie Eco's deliberations are based on the philosophy of language of Ch. S. Peirce. The relationship between semiotics anu literature is far from clear-cut which makes the uncertain concerning the value and perspective of semiotic research.

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Role semantyczne Piłata (na materiale dawnego piśmiennictwa pasyjnego)

Author(s): Ewa Woźniak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 53/2008

The article proposes applying the concept of semantic roles of predicate’s arguments to study profiled in texts character’s image. Old Polish passion writing (until 1577) has been exploited as a source material, whereas potential for semantic roles methods has been presented on Pontius Pilate example. In shaping the image of this character one can observe lack of directly expressed value. The roles methods analysis however permits to reveal indirect valuation mechanisms. Following roles have been distinguished in Pontius Pilate image: agent of modal and causative acts, agent of prime mover speaking, agent of will, agent of knowledge and mental operations. Profiling the will and intelect sphere in Pontius Pilate image is used to valuate positively the character.

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Subjekti konstrueerimine järelevalvesüsteemides

Author(s): Ott Puumeister / Language(s): Estonian Issue: 8/2011

The article deals with surveillance systems and their relations to the subject, it focuses on power relations constituted in surveillance systems. Attention is also paid at how these systems construct the identities of subjects and groups. The main theoretical foundation is Michel Foucault's approach to discourse and power; as an example of surveillance systems, the closed and whole structure of school environment is viewed with the help of Foucault's concepts 'panopticon' and 'heterotopy. Juri Lotman's concept of autocommunication helps us to deal with the problem of subjects' autonomy in surveillance systems. To theoretically approach the more extensive surveillance functioning in society, the concept of surveillant assemblage is used. It describes surveillance systems that are closed only temporarily and are actualized through power relations which are not organized around a fixed centre and do not have stable boundaries. Giorgio Agamben’s concept 'biopolitics' and, again, Foucault's concept 'governmentality' support the understanding of management and governing practices of subjects and groups. Building on these foundations, the article studies the surveillance systems' power of constructing the subject and how different system organizations construct different subject positions. To help the understanding of how the differently organized systems are capable of cooperating, the examples of surveillance in Laagri school as well as in the schools of Great Britain are used. Since there does not exist any unified theoretical framework for considering surveillance systems, this article – by uniting different concepts and approaches – tries to give a humble contribution to an understanding of a modern social problem.

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Kultuur kui (de)konstruktsioon. Eelmärkused Juri Lotmani ja Jacques Derrida teooriate võrdlemiseks

Author(s): Daniele Monticelli / Language(s): Estonian Issue: 8/2011

If, in the political and sociological jargon and public rhetoric of the last decades, the concept of ‘culture’ has gradually replaced such discredited and unusable concepts as ‘race’, ‘ethnos’, even ‘nation’, it nevertheless seems to have inherited their position in conservative agenda. In the politics of identity culture is imagined and described as a closed system with clear-cut boundaries whose internality must be defended from possible contamination. Drawing on the Saussurean conceptual universe, Derrida and Lotman both construct their theory of language and culture on the basis of a thorough (antistructuralistic) critique of that kind of internalizing selfenclosure which allowed Saussure to delimit and describe langue as the object of linguistics. The article tries to pinpoint and compare the fundamental instruments of this critique in Derrida’s and Lotman’s thought, touching upon the notions of ‘mirror structure’, ‘binarism’, ‘numerousness’. There emerges an understanding of mediation which is not reducible to any kind of Aufhebung and frustrates the pretences of identity by constantly dislocating and deferring any attempt at semiotic self-enclosure. In the article I compare Lotman’s ‘translation of the untranslatable’ (or ‘dialogue’) and Derrida’s différance as similar ways of describing this kind of mediation. Derrida and Lotman offer us important instruments to deconstruct from a theoretical point of view the conservative understanding of culture used today as a new (old) kind of ideological justification for sociopolitical conflicts. The (de)constructive nature of culture, as described by Lotman and Derrida, challenges any attempt at theorizing structural cultural constraints as sources of definitive and irreducible identities/differences.

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Joannis Barclaii “Icon Animorum” (1614): Euroopa rahvaste ja rahvuste varane karakteristika

Author(s): Vilmos Voigt / Language(s): Estonian Issue: 8/2011

Culture mediation today follows different ways of communication. There is a long tradition of comparing European cultures, but that material was not often studied in semiotics. In my paper I discuss one of the earliest and most interesting books on that topic. The famous political essayist and writer John Barclay (1582–1621), born to a Scottish teacher of law and a French mother, was an English nobleman, who spent most of his life on the Continent, writing exclusively in elegant Latin on European state affairs and social life. His first important book was the "Satyricon" (1603), a picaresque novel in three parts, mirroring everyday life. The next book "Icon Animorum" (London 1614) was understood by the contemporary European public as the fourth book of the "Satyricon", presenting its theoretical summary. After a dedication to the French king, there are two chapters of introduction (on the four ages of man, on genius seculorum et regionum) and seven descriptive chapters according to states and peoples (Gallia, the English, Scots and Irishmen, Germans and Belgians, Italians, the Spanish, Hungarians, Poles and Muscovites, the Turks and Jews). Then seven synthetic chapters follow, about mental capacities, characterology, types of power and rulers, men in the service of courts, magistrates and patrons, divine experience and religious leaders. No explanatory notes, maps or illustrations are included. In the later (German) editions of the book exhaustive commentaries have been added. Barclay’s book is an excellent source for the historical culture mediation. Especially the third topic in the book – description of a dozen European peoples – offers good material for comparative semiotics. It will be analysed in the framework of later characteristics of the European peoples/cultures.

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Autometakirjeldus eesti luules IV

Author(s): Maria-Kristiina Lotman,Mihhail Lotman,Rebekka Lotman / Language(s): Estonian Issue: 8/2011

The purpose of the paper is to systematize the sign mechanisms in Estonian poetry. Special attention is paid to these forms which Roman Timenchik has called autometadescriptive (1975). The subject of the study is Estonian poetry in its entirety, beginning with Kristjan Jaak Peterson and ending with contemporary authors. Full analysis has been made of the authors of the end of the 19th century – the beginning of the 20th century and of the end of the 20th century, selectively also the texts from the 1930–1980 have been studied. The fourth part of the paper studies rhythm.

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Mis on kollektiivne autor?

Author(s): Margus Tamm / Language(s): Estonian Issue: 8/2011

A plural author is not an unknown neither a new form of authorship, yet, what emerges in descriptions of contemporary plural authors, is an emphasis towards counter-cultural, towards undermining of the traditional author figure. One could say that this often disregards the productive aspects of collective authorship and reduces the plural author into nothing more than a group of critics for the Author, into an illustration to the Death of the Author. Yet many plural authors have been very productive, influential and even institutionally recognised, also censored – it means that they have possessed the qualities of the Author in a way which cannot be reduced barely to the level of parody or deconstruction. In his essay “What is Author?” Michel Foucault also mentions some plural authors such as Homer and, from the 20th century, Nicolas Bourbaki. Because of what is stated above and even more because of the great influence of his essay, I use some tools from Foucault’s toolbox to analyse the author’s positions of plural authors with the purpose of closely observing the aspects into which the plural authors fit and how they fill author’s functions, as well as the aspects which conflict with the latter. As the objects for this analysis I take three quite well known plural authors – Luther Blissett (Italian writer and media persona), Nicolas Bourbaki (French mathematician) and Subcomandante Marcos (Mexican guerilla-leader, writer and essayist).

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Teksti kultuuriline võõrasus kui tõlkeprobleem

Author(s): Terje Loogus / Language(s): Estonian Issue: 8/2011

Relying on the on-going discussions on translation studies in Germany – especially in the Göttingen school of literary translation – this article considers foreignness originating from the culture of texts and translation problems arising from that. To begin with, the article gives an overview of the concept of culture, discusses the role of culture in translation studies and defines the relationship between the notions of the 'Self' and the 'Other'. Subsequently, the article looks at the cultural foreignness of texts and ways to cope with this in the translation process. Foreignness is primarily defined through culture-specific elements. For the translator, a text is "foreign" if it contains features which the translator who relies on his own language and culture cannot straightforwardly interpret and integrate into the translator’s own language and culture without any difficulty. The said foreignness of the text may entail both translation problems and the translator’s internal decision conflicts. Based on Huntemann and Rühling (1997), a distinction between two types of foreignness – cognitive and discriminatory – is made in the article. A text or its elements are cognitively foreign to the translator if the latter lacks the theoretical or practical knowledge necessary for understanding the text. Discriminatory foreignness rests on negative allocations of an object and its class or of objects belonging into different classes. By analysing cognitive and discriminatory foreignness, also cultural-specific translation problems are sought to be defined. When a source text contains foreignness manifesting itself in one or another way, the translator is faced with not only inevitable difficulties, but also with contingent problems. As anticipated, the translator needs to deal with problems related to transmission of the cultural other as well as contingently subjective cognitive foreignness. The translator’s problem is not only lessening the cognitive foreignness of the text for himself, but also finding a way to convey the discriminatory foreignness in the form of a translation to the target text receivers, drawing on the potentialities of his own language and culture.

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Semantic Configuration of the Spatial Concept “Behind” in English

Author(s): Birgit Gösser,Ignasi Navarro i Ferrando / Language(s): English Issue: 10/2011

The paper shows the proposal of semantic structure for the English preposition behind, on the grounds of a semantic model based on three meaning dimensions of the spatial relationship, namely, topology, force-dynamics, and function. The proposal derives from data analysis on 1000 examples drawn from the BNC. The examples were analysed manually, and the senses were worked out taking different contextual parameters into account. The resultant semantic structure shows a core set of meanings and a peripheral set of extended meanings.

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К вопросу рационального и иррационального начал в метафоре: перспективы научного развития

Author(s): Vera Barbazyuk / Language(s): Russian Issue: 3/2014

This article is devoted to the identification of rational and irrational in a metaphor. Analysis shows that this aspect, not widely developed, is very promising, and convinces the need for a narrative-dynamic approach in order to better study the sensuous and rational sides of a metaphor.

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Los ilustradores de los Quijotes infantiles y juveniles en Serbia

Author(s): Jasna Stojanović / Language(s): Spanish Issue: 4/2013

In this paper, we present the drawings of five illustrators made for various Quixotes for children and teenagers in Serbia. We examine the adaptations of the novel published in 1931, 1942, 1958, 1967, and 2008, focusing mainly on the graphic material that accompanies them. Through the analysis of these contributions, we intend to figure out if the selection of the episodes and the approach to Cervantes’ text are reflections, and to what grade, of the socio-cultural milieu and the period of its creation, as well as of the personality of each artist.

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Prozor kao znak: višestrukost semiotičkog čitanja

Author(s): Marina Katnić-Bakaršić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 03+04/2011

The paper explores the denotative, connotative (particularly metaphorical) and symbolic meaning of window from the perspective of social semiotics. Windows may be viewed as architectural signs, but at the same time they can be symbolically regarded as the eyes of the house. Together with doors, windows are markers of boundaries, dividing space into outside and inside, but at the same time making the boundary potentionally permeable. Their function is more passive and static than the function of doors. The different meanings and functions of window are related to different contexts and cultures. These meanings are interpreted in everyday life, in architecture, in literature and in art in general.

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Stigmatized by language – representations of people with disability in Poland and the United States

Author(s): Anna Ślebioda / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2013

Language is one of the elements that create reality. The following paper aims at showing the role of particular languages in constructing the image of disability. Speaking in a particular way, people portray different items, persons etc. The process of the construction may result in shaping varied attitudes and emerging different labels. The paper is a comparison of words used in the field of disability in two countries: Poland and the United States. The vocabulary comes from two sources: in the case of Poland it is the website niepelnosprawni.pl while in the case of the United States – the resources of Disability History Museum, which are available online. There are two reference points for the analysis. The first one is the Stigma concept by Erving Goffman. It implies stereotyping and labeling. On the other side there is the Other – the idea by Emmanuel Levinas. In turn, the basis of his approach are respect and love. The paper aims at demonstrating in which country the vocabulary used is closer to the Levinas` theory. It is also a try to show where the usage of words may be more challenging.

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A linguistic picture of the world and expression of emotions through the prism of expressive lexis

Author(s): Danka Siroka / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2013

This paper deals with expressive lexis, which is understood as the expression of emotions. Through this prism we would like to present a picture of the world which is formed by the opposites, emotional – rational. This picture would also present some examples of speech that is created in the mind as a result of man’s preferences and values. The relation of language and mind, formation of a picture of the world on the basis of both linguistic and extralinguistic foundations, projection of emotions and assessments on language – all of these components are inspiring avenues and this paper trys to enlighten the basis of expressive linguistic inventory of the users of the Slovak language.

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Analiza językowa seksistowskich wypowiedzi Janusza Korwin-Mikkego

Author(s): Kamila Kuros / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2011

In the following paper the author has performed a linguistic analysis of several chosen sexist remarks by Janusz Korwin-Mikke in order to prove how stereotypically women are regarded by the famous politician. This conservative man treats stereotypes as a proof of good orders and fights to prevent women from trying to change what for thousands of years has given the general order and happiness for male sex and, in his opinion, for female sex. Significant for the author’s paper has been the importance of antifeminist’s texts within pragmatic and semantic aspect. The paper has concentrated on solely the linguistic aspect - in detail there have been discussed among other things: aphorisms and neologisms which are used by the controversial politician. In the paper the author has tried to prove that J. Korwin-Mikke’s language provokes and insults the opposite sex.

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„Czerwony Kapturek był śliczną dziewczynką, a Kopciuszek wyszedł za księcia…”- rozbieżności między rodzajem gramatycznym a naturalnym ...

Author(s): Aleksandra Szczurek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2011

The article presents the problem of the differences between grammatical and natural gender of the names of main female protagonists in the tales of Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood. It shows the examples of usage of different gender categories in the text telling about the protagonists. It is possible to mix the gender identity of the protagonists in the texts. It stresses the most logical solution – using the natural gender which, in this situations, should be more important than the grammatical one.

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Sztuka, postsztuka, autosztuka i ...

Author(s): Kamil Wnuk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2011

The purpose of art is to aim at eliminating everything, branding injustice. The art works uncover al attitudes and often cross the forms and conventions, become helpless and accept such situation. Artists are said to play a diversionary game against lancing and commercialisation. But the result is completely opposite. The phenomenon of postartappears (the form of participation in a game for domination of following cultural actualities.Postart artifact are: events, performance, products). Postart can be defined as that what must be called art because of market trends. It is a different phenomenon than art, which follows different rules and methods.

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Manipulacja ramami w specjalnym wydaniu tygodnika „Time” z 20 V 2011 roku

Author(s): Mateusz Marecki / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2012

On 20 May 2011, the Time weekly published a special report issue in its entirety covering the killing of Osama bin Laden. Clearly, owing to its thematic coherence, the Time Special Report issue could be examined through the lenses of qualitative content analysis tools. This paper, howe- ver, applies Goffman’s Frame Analysis. Based on two basic assumptions: (1) that the “frame” amo- unts to the structured knowledge and (2) that the language of media reports is never neutral, but highly constructed, the paper argues that the examined Time issue is fundamentally built on three frames: the “war on terror” frame, the “hero” vs. the “enemy no. 1” frame and, ﬁnally, the “inde- structible USA” vs. the “primitive, yet promising Islamic countries” frame. In addition, drawing on the cognitive concepts of ﬁgure/ground organization and focalization, as well as the notion of metaphor, it investigates how the above distinguished frames are manipulated and modiﬁed.

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Mogući svjetovi i semantika priče

Author(s): Gajo Peleš / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 3-4/1995

After the theory of mimesis literature is imitation of the real world. In this way narrative meanings are contaminated by extratextual Objects. The theory of possible worlds ensures the ontological status of narrative entities. They are taken to be non-existant Objects and can be compared with the entities of the real world. The semantic analysis of the story obtains in this way a firm theoretical basis enabling us to make a clear distinction between the reconstructed (concretized) narrative units (characters, groups, spaces, time, ideologemes, etc.) and extratextual Objects. The narrative figures (units, objects) are clusters of properties (meanings) and they are semantically delimited from all extratextual entities. The meaning of a name from the real world (e.g. Napoleon, Paris) is separated from the narrative units of the same name. The narrative unit (its individuality) obtains its genuine basis of meaning which can be determined even in cases when it becomes a lexical unit (lexeme), for example »bovarism«.

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