One of the most sustainable ways of improving the landscape value is the valorisation of the countryside dirt road network with the purpose of creating a greenweb, a communication system able to improve the territory attractiveness. The study assumes an axiological approach to land planning, including a qualitative valuation model and an interactive multicriteria tool based on the combination o...

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...

This study explores the ways in which master thesis writers position their research field of English language teaching a context where academic literacies are still developing field. From social semiotic perspective, this paper aims to identify resources use represent object and provide justification for research. The analysis focuses on ideational textual metafunctions account patterns meaning...

This study aims to achieve a semiotic understanding of collective memory of the Iran-Iraq war. For this purpose, samples of images in virtual social networks shared in response to the news of discovery and return of the bodies of more than 175 divers have been analyzed. Visual signs in photographs, cartoons, graphic designs, prints, paintings and posters, in methods of historical pictures and f...

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,...

The subject of the research in article is Russian revolutionary political discourse as an object artistic reflection. analysis was carried out on material most novel by F.M. Dostoevsky Demons. main method semiotic analysis, which revealed totality basic values and challenges revolution Dostoevsky's interpretation: categories power (a new person his attribute self-will, a society, friends enemie...