This article argues that, to understand where find the study object ‘Islam’ and how address it, researchers in Islamic studies need be theoretically methodologically aware of importance implications power practices. By discussing enunciations associated with Islam, problems reification, power, cognitive naming, semiotic resources mobilised by enunciations, proposes ways operationalise grand sca...

This study examines the visual aesthetic function of English signs in line with ethnographic approaches as a means of achieving various symbolic and communicative implications in the linguistic landscape (LL) of Jordan. Having coded the data in 6 urban streets of the major Jordanian cities, the social semiotic analysis centers on the visual layout of signs based on the typographical features of...

In the present talk I intend to discuss the validity of a model (or better, a class of models) of learning and deuterolearning processes in cognitive systems, constructed combining set-theoretical and proof-theoretical concepts. This class of models is based on ideas coming from different disciplines: 1) Gregory Bateson’s systemic-relational theory of learning and change; 2) G ̈odel’s incomplete...

ion and explanation A CR approach to the explanation of concrete phenomena such as semiosis analyses them as conjunctions of structures and causal powers co-producing specific effects. To do this it abstracts these structures, identifying them and considering their respective causal powers and liabilities. Having done this, it then moves back towards the concrete, combining the abstracted const...

In this paper we study Language, Εmbodied Learning and other semiotic systems as an integral means through which students express emotions, reasoning and scientific meanings when they realize scientific theatrical performances. Four characteristics of Embodied Learning examined, those of gestures, whole body movements, emotional involvement and facial expressions combined with two semiotic syst...

This research paper deals with one part of a comprehensive study called "Causality of narratological-semiotic aspects of the structure of film expression and paradigms of reception of Croatian feature film". It is conceived as a response to the hypothesis that the expression of narrative-semiotic terms correlate with the reception of the Croatian feature film audience and all them leads into a ...

The concept of meme misidentifies units of cultural information as active agents, a shorthand similar to what misleads our understanding of genes and obscures the dynamic logic of evolution; but the concept does offer hope by contributing something missing from many semiotic theories. In treating memes as replicators, Dawkins fails to distinguish mere patterns from information (and replication ...

The concept of meme misidentifies units of cultural information as active agents, which is the same "shorthand" that misleads our understanding of genes and obscures the dynamic logic of evolution. But the meme concept does offer hope by contributing something missing from many semiotic theories. In treating memes as replicators, Dawkins fails to distinguish mere patterns from information (and ...