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...

theatre enjoys the highest status in social relationships and this trait arises from two characteristics: the first one is that theatre is formed at the time and place of performance. theatre is created in specific time on stage for the audience. the second one is direct presence of the audience which is the third basic element of theatre. theatre is created through direct encounter of actors a...

A semiotic perspective of mathematical activity provides an alternative way of conceptualising the teaching and learning of mathematics. For it rejects the wholly psychological perspective that focuses exclusively on mental structures and functions. It also rejects the straightforwardly assessment or performance focussed perspective that is concerned only with student behaviors. Instead it offe...

in this paper the sociological approach of janet wolff and john thompson is used to identify and interpret the relationship between the evolution of persian carpet and its social context. the social context includes socio-economic, ideologican and political conditions surronding this evolution. to study persian carpet from the pazric rug from its initiation to the present time, based on numorou...

This paper deals with the sign up issue in social networks populated with Web services. These social networks can be used for example, to ease the discovery of Web services. Based on Web services’ functionalities three social networks are built: competition, substitution, and collaboration. In competition and substitution social networks, Web services offer homogeneous functionalities. In the c...

The study of social networks is a burgeoning research area. However, most existing work is on networks that simply encode whether relationships exist or not. In contrast, relationships in signed networks can be positive (“like”, “trust”) or negative (“dislike”, “distrust”). The theory of social balance shows that signed networks tend to conform to some local patterns that, in turn, induce certa...

the meaning theory of lucla and mouffe and their theory of sociology are very integrated. the sphere of society is like sinology system in which each sign wants to find it’s meaning .to obtain this, they challenge each other . the social sign system and it’s related concepts such as signifier and signified try to define the word in it’s specific approach. so it can identify the social subjects ...