Introduction: Semiotics of food

Semiotics and Intelligent Systems Development: An Introduction

Sometimes, in order to mature, a methodology operates outside the mainstream for a period of time; it becomes the mainstream methodology only after this phase. This happened, for example, with neural networks, which appeared in the early 60's, but became the mainstream in research only 25 years later, after the development of the backpropagation algorithm as its learning algorithm. It happened ...

Semiotic modelling of biological processes: an introduction to Peircean semiotics

potentiality, Quality is closer to a blend of Firstness and Thirdness, than to pure Firstness. Such a treatment seems to be compatible with Peirce’s categorical scheme, since, as Potter (1997: 94) stresses, the categorical structure which Peirce uses is ‘highly subtle and complex, admitting of various combinations’. For Murphey, there is a transition from the notion of meaning as a qualitative ...

Urban The semiotics of tabooed food : The Shokleng case

Museum as Text An Introduction to the Relationship between Semiotics and the Museum as an Institution

The Reading of Museum is the title of a book by Reza Dabirinezhad that has just been published and is available to the Iranian academic and cultural community. The author is a museum specialist and one of the renowned executives of the country's museums, who uses the methodology of semiotics to analyze the mechanism of the interpretation of museum objects and the Semantic System in museums. Sin...

Introduction: Food Matters

carrie bradshaw: When a girl gets backed up against a wall she can’t afford, she has to consider renting others (sniffing through open window). Do . . . Do I smell curry? realtor: There’s an Indian restaurant downstairs. cb: Delia, I ask you, how can this apartment be $2,800 a month? I pay $750 for something that’s twice the size and it don’t smell like takeout. realtor: You have a rent-control...