adopting a humanistic, communicative-based approach to semiotics, this paper aims at investigating the status of linguistic signs and their interaction with other communicative signs. the status of linguistic sign is first studied in semiotic theories spanning ancient, middle ages and modern era. based on the commonalities envisaged in four contemporary semiotic theories done in the spirit of t...

3 "Humans are no longer the only and lonely ones that are capable of, and to some degree dependant on, the interpretation of signs." Frieder Nake

There are many attempts to explain success and failure in information systems. Many of these refer to a purported sociotechnical gap. In this chapter, we develop an alternative approach that does not impose such a strong dichotomy, but regards social and technical rather as dimensions along which to study work practices. The developed theory involves not only the “social” and “technical” constr...

The symbol on the wooden carving of Toraja traditional house (Tongkonan) is an important part its construction, so purpose this article to describe and analyze power. This exploration uses subjective interpretive examination techniques, breaks down describes significance things that are concentrated considering reality ground, involves key witnesses as sources information, utilizes essential op...

The emergence and evolutionary history of semiotic systems and processes are among the topics that attract the most remarkable number of researchers in a variety of theoretical and experimental fields. As 'behavior associated with the language does not fossilize' (Hauser et al., 2000), the most important developments are theoretical, comparative and computational modeling (Christiansen & Kirby,...