This paper is an overview of a new ap proach to requirements the exposition takes formality and informality as its theme The approach considers that requirements are information and that informa tion is social Ethnomethodology and semiotics are used to explore the nature of information and require ments Some limits of formalization and the impor tance of tacit knowledge and evolution motivate n...

This article is devoted the semiotics analysis of concepts «meaning» and «interpretation». On the basis of the analysis the conclusion becomes, that the sign can display a reality only in the course of human activity. Meaning of a sign is a way of its use and interpretation. From the point of view of the theory of interpretants are checked and described conformity, associated with other sign. T...

is book (Chinese title Suoxuer yanjiu zai zhongguo) is a collection of thirty-three papers, selected from among three hundred papers published by the end of 2003. e collection is headed by the editor’s introduction, followed by papers divided into four sections, Introduction to Saussure (2 papers), Bibliographical Studies of Saussure’s Works (4 papers), e Roots of Saussure’s Ideas (3 papers)...

Is music a sort of non-verbal language conveying meanings to listeners? In this article, one part of this old controversial subject is approached experimentally. Reasons are given for the hypothesis that the works of music signify interpersonal tendencies which are understood and reacted to by the listeners who in this way participate in fantasy on the interpersonal transactions of the composer...

The use of semiotics has been proposed in studying the ways in which information is mediated in computer systems, particularly in user interfaces. Goguen's algebraic semiotics provides a formal tool for studying the systematic use of signs in computer systems, and for presenting formal comparisons of diierent interface designs. The formal elements of algebraic semiotics make it a kind of algebr...

Acknowledgements: The early draft of this paper has been orally presented at the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy (ASCP) Annual Conference 2004 “Critique Today”, sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, Division of SCMP, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 8-10 December, 2004, session 17 “Phenomenology, Semiotics, Ethics”. Th...

In this paper I consider the usefulness of the compositional hierarchy model in understanding the information flows involved in group behaviors in animals. I propose that short-term memory can function to transduce information across scale, thereby connecting different modes of information and mediating coherent group motions. This transduction I propose to be mediated by the “sign” as understo...

This paper reflects on the importance of social to analysis historical multimodal texts and how some concepts analytical tools from SFL can prevent researchers getting most their data. Building work Ledin Machin (2018), it looks at three main areas concern when dealing with texts—context, attention micro, meso macro levels, historically-developed affordances—and uses examples Edwardian book ins...

We have systems rich in information but poor in knowledge. The paper shall sketch a framework in which information and knowledge could be properly integrated. Our initial hypothesis is that passing from information to knowledge involves the elaboration of a well structured theory of semiotic units. The latter is codified by a three-fold structure: an expression, a content and an ontological com...