Han characters (kanji) used in written Japanese come from China, but there are created separately Japan called kokuji. This research aims to investigate the formation of kokuji according Peirce’s semiotics and rikusho (traditional classification Chinese characters) by Xu Shen, one additional proposed character category—namely, kaii-keisei class. The method this study is library research. Of 87 ...

unlike ordinary language, signs or elements of a literary language tend to develop a loose connection with their innate meanings and conceptions, and there appears to be no logical and natural tie between the words and their possible meanings. this fundamental gap or difference pushes a literary language  further to be dynamic and brings along various vistas for reading. what is important in de...

There are two models based on Semiotic Engineering aimed to assist designers in modeling the interface: Manas and MoLIC. This work shows the result of the application of these models in two collaborative systems and contrasts the results between models and within each model, assessing which aspects were represented by each model and in what level of abstraction, as well as the possibility of a ...

This response to Kress agrees that it is vital to identify gains and losses afforded by changing media but questions his reliance on binaries and periodization. It suggests a return to James Gibson’s affordances; more precise analysis of semiotic objects; and sociohistoric theories that link semiotic artifacts, individual development, and social practice. © 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

handicaps to effective introduction of semiotic achievements into software development in the spheres related to human perception such as interfaces, computer languages, DB queries, arise due to the absence of analysis and modeling methods adequate to the complicity of the investigated objects. A formal model that expresses basic semiotic notions in species of structures is presented in the pap...

This paper aims to reflect on the role of Culture of Participation in fostering an Ethics of Design, as a means of true innovation in contemporary society. Participation often stands on commonalities, empathy and the desire to share our own beliefs and world views. The design of artifacts has as its first, though implicit purpose, to convey a message. Our economy relies even more on knowledge-i...

This qualitative study aimed to know in what ways the verbal (oral mode) and non-verbal (visual mode gestural semiotic resources help Dove meet criteria of femvertising. The used Multimodal approach analyze data. writer collected analyzed data from Dove’s My Beauty Say video. findings showed that femvertising by orally informing audiences about problems arguments are faced women video how they ...

This study was an attempt to investigate the application of Fairclough's (2003) Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) approach and Social Semiotic Approach (SSA) proposed by Kress and van Leeuwen (2006) in analyzing ads discourse i.e. an approach that combines textual analysis with semiotic analysis in studying advertising. This combined approach was checked in two sample ads extracted from 'Time' ...