Roland Barthes: A Reminiscence

Elements of Semiology by Roland Barthes

In his Course in General Linguistics, first published in 1916, Saussure postulated the existence of a general science of signs, or Semiology, of which linguistics would form only one part. Semiology therefore aims to take in any system of signs, whatever their substance and limits; images, gestures, musical sounds, objects, and the complex associations of all these, which form the content of ri...

Reminiscence as autobiographical memory: a catalyst for reminiscence theory development

Research on the psychological outcomes of reminiscence techniques has led to equivocal findings. The goal of this paper is to advance current theory guiding research on reminiscence by examining the implications of viewing reminiscence as a type of autobiographical memory. Butler’s classic paper on reminiscence as ‘ life review’ () is examined, and revisions to this approach are proposed ba...

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Roland Bluhm

The aim of this paper is to discuss the potential benefit of corpus analysis, a (partly) empirical method from linguistics, for philosophy� ‘Corpus analysis’ is not only the name of the method, but also a rough description of it, because the method consists in analysing data taken from linguistic text corpora� In linguistics, using such text corpora is an established practice� A fair number of ...

Reminiscence Systems

This paper discusses the role of reminiscence systems, used to support reminiscing work. It is intended to provide an overview of the area of reminiscing research and to define the technologies that are used in such research. Recommendations on future directions in reminiscence systems research are provided.