{"title":"Preface to the special issue “Championing global semiotics: in honor of Paul Cobley”","authors":"Hongbing Yu","doi":"10.1515/css-2022-2087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/css-2022-2087","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52036,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Semiotic Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"1 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45916377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract This paper explores how short web videos uploaded to the Truth Commission’s TikTok official profile are formulated. The Truth Commission (Comisión de la Verdad) is a Colombian state entity created to clarify patterns and causes of Colombia’s internal armed conflict and recognize victims’ and society’s right to the truth. The Commission’s aim is to avoid repetition of violence through an ample and plural participation process to construct a stable and lasting peace. To explore the debate and the importance of recognizing crimes against humanity committed in the context of the armed conflict in Colombia – specifically, sexual violations against ethnically and territorially defined women – two videos were selected under thematic, territorial, ethnic, and gender-unity criteria from among 60 short videos published on TikTok between February 2020 and March 2021. The nuclear axis of the videos corresponds to the semiotic theory at the core of the multimodal and multimedia critical discourse analysis (MMCDA). The digital discourse is multimodal, as its design, production, and distribution process draws from various and coexisting sign systems: visual-graphic (image-color), visual-verbal-graphic, verbal-sound, and sound-musical. These devices are proposed as “memory devices” that allow viewers to witness human rights violation events in the context of Colombia’s current armed conflict.
{"title":"A semiotic-discursive insight into short videos on memory and peace","authors":"Neyla Graciela Pardo Abril","doi":"10.1515/css-2022-2100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/css-2022-2100","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper explores how short web videos uploaded to the Truth Commission’s TikTok official profile are formulated. The Truth Commission (Comisión de la Verdad) is a Colombian state entity created to clarify patterns and causes of Colombia’s internal armed conflict and recognize victims’ and society’s right to the truth. The Commission’s aim is to avoid repetition of violence through an ample and plural participation process to construct a stable and lasting peace. To explore the debate and the importance of recognizing crimes against humanity committed in the context of the armed conflict in Colombia – specifically, sexual violations against ethnically and territorially defined women – two videos were selected under thematic, territorial, ethnic, and gender-unity criteria from among 60 short videos published on TikTok between February 2020 and March 2021. The nuclear axis of the videos corresponds to the semiotic theory at the core of the multimodal and multimedia critical discourse analysis (MMCDA). The digital discourse is multimodal, as its design, production, and distribution process draws from various and coexisting sign systems: visual-graphic (image-color), visual-verbal-graphic, verbal-sound, and sound-musical. These devices are proposed as “memory devices” that allow viewers to witness human rights violation events in the context of Colombia’s current armed conflict.","PeriodicalId":52036,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Semiotic Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"137 - 159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47286429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract Paul Cobley stated that the semiotics of narrative should not be conflated with narratology. This statement becomes a starting point for an inquiry into the semiotics of narrative by looking at the concept of narrative signs and its future as a new theory of narrative. Narrative signs embedding semiotic processes convey the meaning of narrative in the areas of the prelinguistic, the linguistic, and the extralinguistic by way of signs, models, and semiosis. What is more, the concept of narrative modeling for Cobley enables further inquiry into cultural activity through the act of narration for transvaluation. In this regard, a new theory of narrative involves time, emotion, abduction, and the dialogic self, leading to the narrative-related ideas of cognition, identity, and human subjectivity. Based on Peirce’s semiotics and a biosemiotic approach, narrative modeling makes human beings participate in sign activity, that is, cultural activity through dialogic interaction between culture and nature. Consequently, this paper proposes that the study of the mysterious narrative through narrative modeling is geared to seeing how it affects humans and also how they see and make a world through various cultural practices.
{"title":"Narrative modeling and its implications for cultural practices","authors":"Yunhee Lee","doi":"10.1515/css-2022-2091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/css-2022-2091","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Paul Cobley stated that the semiotics of narrative should not be conflated with narratology. This statement becomes a starting point for an inquiry into the semiotics of narrative by looking at the concept of narrative signs and its future as a new theory of narrative. Narrative signs embedding semiotic processes convey the meaning of narrative in the areas of the prelinguistic, the linguistic, and the extralinguistic by way of signs, models, and semiosis. What is more, the concept of narrative modeling for Cobley enables further inquiry into cultural activity through the act of narration for transvaluation. In this regard, a new theory of narrative involves time, emotion, abduction, and the dialogic self, leading to the narrative-related ideas of cognition, identity, and human subjectivity. Based on Peirce’s semiotics and a biosemiotic approach, narrative modeling makes human beings participate in sign activity, that is, cultural activity through dialogic interaction between culture and nature. Consequently, this paper proposes that the study of the mysterious narrative through narrative modeling is geared to seeing how it affects humans and also how they see and make a world through various cultural practices.","PeriodicalId":52036,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Semiotic Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"39 - 55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42553033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract The postdigital condition is discussed from the perspective of Paul Cobley’s biosemiotic approach to culture. While semiotics is often concerned with cultural criticism, there has been no explicit biosemiotic approach to culture, until only recently with Cobley unfurling such a research program. The key to this is the biosemiotic notion of modeling, which accounts for co-evolutionary processes encompassing biology and culture. This approach responds to recent calls in the humanities and social sciences to understand culture as constituted through technology, but also as something not strictly human (more-than-human). By undermining both vitalism and reductionism, biosemiotics avoids biologism and culturalism, which is of much importance for theorizing culture and learning in light of evolution. This has consequences for construing cultural pluralism. Mainstream notions of multiculturalism rely on cultural holism and, hence, advocate the separation of communities and languages for the pretense of maintaining diversity. Cobley’s theory avoids this pitfall, offering a view of cultures as intrinsically heterogeneous and open systems. This suggests further implications for how we understand the aims of literacy and state-run education. We present an account of biocultural learning that accommodates contemporary posthumanist and postdigital orientations. Construing learning as ecologically contextual is necessary for addressing ongoing technological transformations.
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Abstract An interesting article by Hongbing Yu (Yu, Hongbing. 2019. Meaning generation. Chinese Semiotic Studies 15(3). 429–447) “Meaning generation” led me to reconsider an unpublished paper from 15 years ago on Roman Jakobson’s much-criticized basic communication model, and the functions of language published in the Closing Statement of Style in language (Jakobson, Roman. 1960. Linguistics and poetics. In Thomas Sebeok (ed.), Style in language, 350–377. New York: MIT Press). In this article it is about using the semiotic nonagon operative model, derived from the three Peircean categories, to review Jakobson’s model, and in turn, think about the limits of agency for the production of meaning in relation to three other authors like Jacques Lacan, Louis Althusser, and Charles S. Peirce himself.
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Abstract In the past, I have published papers on the use of language within the realm of fictional narratives, how the structure of postmodern films and novels operates to affect the reader or viewer, and on the purely objective worlds constructed within the confines of literature. Most recently, I submitted a newly written paper to my friend Paul Cobley for his casual feedback. He got back promptly, saying only that the paper did not have enough references. I pressed Paul: Was it not possible to write a philosophy paper where one just philosophized, without alluding to things written on the subject matter in the past, and wasn’t it ok not to cite references if you came up with the idea independent of any outside reading? His reply was: “No.” Time passed, and I was asked to write this article celebrating Paul’s 60th birthday. Looking for something I hadn’t read already, I discovered his book, Narrative (2014). This paper addresses one of the reference entries most definitely missing from my prior investigations on literature and cinema, one which should have informed – and now does my own thoughts on fiction and film.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-28DOI: 10.18287/2782-2966-2022-2-4-59-65
K. Pozdnyakov
The article theme is topical for the reason that Ilya Ilf in Zapisnye knizhki criticizes the socialist realism the art that propagandized and did not pay attention to the artistic expression quality and originality. In recent decades we can witness return of social realistic writing in the works of such authors as A. Ivanov, Z. Prilepin, K. Silvanova and E. Malisova. It appears that in the course of studying the classic Stalinist social realism and critical reflecting it is possible to understand certain patterns of the modern literature process. The research objective was to study Ilf's critique peculiarities and its objects. The article basic research methods comprise semiotic and intertextual analyses. The article beginning considers the context of Ilf's writing in 1930-s years. The stories by Ilf and Petrov, E. Zozulja and Barricady [Barricades] novel by P. Pavlenko were considered as the empiric material. As a result of the research, two thematic dominants of the writing were distinguished: 1) critical judgment of I. Ilfs literature colleagues who started working in social realistic manner in 1930-s years; 2) ironic attacks at the forming social realistic canon. Both of the writing thematic domains are polar opposite to Ilf and Petrov's artistic expression within the specified period. The coauthors created several social realistic texts, and some parts of Odnoetazhnaya America [One-storied America] are semantically compliant with the key Soviet ideology intentions. Thus, it is possible and necessary to distinguish between Ilfs independent creative working and the coauthors late works, where E. Petrov was an evident leader.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-28DOI: 10.18287/2782-2966-2022-2-4-44-52
Gunther Scholz
In the 19th century philology became the most important human science following history, and the interpretation methods were refined. However, in the 20th century, fundamental doubts arose about the possibility and the sense of the interpretation procedure, and an increasingly sharp criticism was expressed. It was aimed at the presupposition of a certain, unchangeable meaning of the texts. The diversity of interpretations seemed to confirm that. The interpretations could also be called "fictions". However, this essential doubt about a certainty of the text meaning contradicts the linguistic communication in the society. These critics ignore the fact that there are very different forms of texts and the interpretations in different cultural areas pursue very different objectives. It is reasonable to distinguish between criticism and hermeneutics to regulate the controversy of interpretations: while the latter tries to explore the author's perspective, in criticism the interpreter is allowed to bring his own perspective to bear. These two concepts are usually related in the interpretation process, but can be separated in case of controversy.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-28DOI: 10.18287/2782-2966-2022-2-4-8-14
D. Bylieva
The Christian traditional theme of love and freedom is reflected in the man-robot relationship. The Christian ethics opposes love with the observance of formal rules. Thus, the robot needs to find either universal ethical rules (whose difficulty is shown in both scientific and fiction literature), or allow him to find freedom and love. The popular cultural theme of robots rebelling against the code that prescribes their actions is now being replaced by images of autonomous and freely operating robots. Such changes are motivated by not least the success of the connectionist approach that made it possible to train artificial intelligence (AI) without predetermined rules. The AI image as a comrade, colleague and romantic partner is gaining more and more space both in mass culture and in life, and the discourse about its rights, ethics and freedom is becoming more topical.
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