abdullah al-baradouni and jalal ad-din muhammad mawlawi suggest some common ontological themes which are represented in themes like “freedom”, “astonishment”, “estrangement” “death”.  there are lots of similarities between two poets. two poets represent these themes with a sincere mystical approach. theme of freedom is represented in the  poems of two poets by a mystical approach and it means b...

Computational models of semantics infer semantic structure from the analysis of large linguistic corpora. Two approaches are described here. In each case the data consist of a document-by-word matrix, counting the number of times a word was used in a document. Latent Semantic Analysis uses dimension reduction to construct a high-dimensional semantic space from such a matrix. Information in sema...

Recursion or self-reference is a key feature of contemporary research and writing in semiotics. The paper commences by focusing on the role of recursion in poststructuralism. It is suggested that much of what passes for recursion in this field is in fact not recursive all the way down. After the paradoxical meaning of radical recursion is adumbrated, topology is employed to provide some example...

This paper presents a semiotic technique as a means of exploring meaning and understanding in interface design and use. This is examined through a study of the interaction between the ‘file’ metaphor and ‘save as’ command metaphor. The behaviour of these (from a functional or computational basis) do not exactly match, or map onto, the meaning of the metaphor. We examine both the denotation of a...

Legal and economic scholarship generally assumes that people weigh costs and benefits in responding to legal rules. This same scholarship often assumes, however, that trial judges applying the law do not compare the costs and benefits of their own effort when implementing legal rules. Consideration of trial court effort results in the so-called enforcer’s dilemma, a similar problem that infects...