Artistic communication as an object of semiotics and linguistic aesthetics by Vladimir Feshchenko

“…Semiotic methodologies for modelling the sign and the communicative act, developed in the works of Gottlob Frege, Gustav Shpet, Jan Mukařovský, Roman Jakobson, Juri Lotman, Umberto Eco, Suren Zolyan, and some other semioticians, are discussed with a focus on the models of aesthetic sign and the corresponding models of semiosis in relation to artistic systems. …”
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The Late Lithuanian Greimas: Intentions and Reception by Loreta Mačianskaitė

“…The theoretical context of Juri Lotman’s cultural semiotics is a more permanent intellectual context for this study, and some of the terms are useful in more than one aspect. …”
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Prisons as total institution semiospheres by Erik Kõvamees

“…The main objective of this article is to combine Juri Lotman’s theory of the semiosphere – including its concepts of boundary, core, and periphery – with Erving Goffman’s theory of the total institution. …”
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“Have you not heard, my soul [...]?”: The Great Kanon of St Andrew of Crete as a multimodal autocommunicative text by Jason Van Boom, Alin Olteanu

“…To study this complex liturgical hymn that occupies a key role in the ritual practice of Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic Christians we employ a theoretical framework rooted primarily in Juri Lotman’s theory of autocommunication, as complemented by more recent developments in social and cognitive semiotics, particularly ideas of multimodality and viewpoint. …”
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Reflections on religion and the status of ‘the outside’ in the Lotmanian understanding of culture by Thomas-Andreas Põder

“… The article explores the question whether the way in which Juri Lotman uses the categories of semiotic explosion and unpredictability enables and necessitates the need to give space not only to different descriptions, but also to various self-descriptions (auto-communications) of religion in culture. …”
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Considerations about the ‘right to a biography’: Saints and intellectuals in contemporary culture by Jenny Ponzo

“… Taking its cue from Juri Lotman’s essay “Pravo na biografiyu”, this paper re-formulates the categories proposed by Lotman in relation to the two models of the saint and the modern intellectual, the former exemplifying the perfect realization of the norm and the latter the rejection of the norm in the name of an individual rule. …”
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The spatial representation of the Blessed Mary in Italian poetry at the time of the Second Vatican Council by Magdalena Maria Kubas

“…In more recent periods, this figure is often placed in the space of earthly life, with which the lyrical subject (the enunciator) is more familiar. Juri Lotman’s perspective on the space of the typological description of culture shows that divinities belong mainly to the exterior (E) space of culture. …”
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La sémiosphère de la mémoire individuelle : un modèle sémiotique et intermédial by Emmanuelle Caccamo

“…S’inscrivant dans les études sur la mémoire (memory studies), ce modèle convoque en particulier la sémiotique de la culture de Juri Lotman, s’accorde aux principes de la sémiotique peircienne et repose sur une fine compréhension études intermédiales. …”
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La sémiosphère de la mémoire individuelle : un modèle sémiotique et intermédial by Emmanuelle Caccamo

“…S’inscrivant dans les études sur la mémoire (memory studies), ce modèle convoque en particulier la sémiotique de la culture de Juri Lotman, s’accorde aux principes de la sémiotique peircienne et repose sur une fine compréhension études intermédiales. …”
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Jüri Talveti filoloogiline teekond: hispaaniakeelsest maailmast Eestisse ja tagasi / Jüri Talvet’s Philological Journey: from the Spanish-speaking World to Estonia and Back by Rein Veidemann

“…Talvet’s method follows the theories of Mikhail Bakhtin and Juri Lotman, the essays of Michel de Montaigne’ and the 20th century existentialists Miguel de Unamuno, Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre. …”
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Religion og politik. Kommunikation, epistemologi og etik by Jeppe Sinding Jensen

“…Religion og politik har et højt niveau af auto-kommunikation til fælles, som defineret af den sovjetiske semiotician Juri Lotman, og en høj grad af standardiseret kommunikativ handling både verbal og non-verbal. …”
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Stockage des déchets nucléaires : la communication à travers les millénaires. L’hypothèse cléricale de Sebeok réinterprétée avec Latour et Lotman by Simon Levesque

“…En prenant appui sur les travaux en sociologie des sciences de Bruno Latour et ceux sur la sémiosphère de Juri Lotman, une relecture de l’hypothèse cléricale est opérée. …”
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Stockage des déchets nucléaires : la communication à travers les millénaires. L’hypothèse cléricale de Sebeok réinterprétée avec Latour et Lotman by Simon Levesque

“…En prenant appui sur les travaux en sociologie des sciences de Bruno Latour et ceux sur la sémiosphère de Juri Lotman, une relecture de l’hypothèse cléricale est opérée. …”
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Crossing the textual frame and its transmedial effects by Elżbieta Chrzanowska-Kluczewska

“…The year 2022 marks the 100th anniversary of Juri Lotman’s birth. On this occasion, I propose to return to one of Lotman’s concepts, namely that of frame. …”
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Maailmakirjanduse mõõtmisest meil ja mujal / Conceptualizations of World Literature in Estonia and Elsewhere by Liina Lukas

“…The theory of periphery as an area, where semiotic processes accelerate and the creative and dialogical function of borders developed in Tartu by Juri Lotman, explains a great deal about the history of Comparative Literature in Tartu: the peripheral location of Tartu, its changing identity turns out to be the crossroad and meeting point of diverse cultures. …”
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Vägivaldne surm Aischylose tragöödias „Agamemnon“ / Violent death in Aeschylus’s tragedy “Agamemnon” by Karina Talts

“…In the context of Juri Lotman’s cultural semiotics and his theory of boundaries, the opposition between „in“ and „out“ allows death to be placed on the life/afterlife, seen/unseen, known/unknown axes. …”
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Sõjakas kaitse – konfliktid loodus- ja kultuuripärandi hoiu kujundamisel / Warlike Protection – Conflicts in Shaping the Preservation of Natural and Cultural Heritage by Tõnno Jonuks, Atko Remmel, Lona Päll, Ulla Kadakas

“…Such an approach proceeds from Juri Lotman’s suggestion that it is not agreements, but contradictions that make a dialogue fruitful.  …”
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Domestication Strategies in the Poem "Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season" Based on Lotman's Theory by Akbar Shayanseresht, Zahra Khoshamen

“…(ibid: 227)In this article, we will answer the questions in the direction of literary localization, what changes did the poem "Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season" have in the process of being inspired by "The Waste Land" and to what extent have the localization solutions added to the beauty and power of the poem "Let Us Believe..."? Literature ReviewJuri Lotman, the founder of the Tartu-Moscow school of cultural semiotics, has discussed the semiotic theory of culture in his various pieces, such as Culture and Explosion, The Structure of the Artistic Text, and The Universe of the Mind. …”
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Russisches für die Insel-Bücherei. Zum Übersetzungskonzept Alexander Eliasbergs im Spiegel der Verlagskorrespondenz by Carmen Sippl

“…Understanding the culture of translation as a semiosphere (according to Jury Lotman’s definition) furthers the insight into the dynamics and the (historical, sociocultural) conditions of the process of Russian-German cultural mediation. …”
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