women as half of human societies have different roles in different areas of social life. so content analysis of the media is necessary in the about of women. this study uses two methods: content analysis and semiotics. so content analyzed a statistical week from the first six months of 1393 kayhan, iran and shargh newspapers. then by using semiotics, printed images of women in these newspapers ...

These observations have motivated the implementation of a series of situated language processing systems in my lab. I will report on my ongoing attempt to develop a computational framework for language grounding that distills lessons learned from these implementations. Drawing from ideas in semiotics and constructivism, knowledge is represented in terms of signs which are causally connected to ...

The treatment of social meaning in sociolinguistic variation has come in three waves of analytic practice. The first wave of variation studies established broad correlations between linguistic variables and the macrosociological categories of socioeconomic class, sex, class, ethnicity, and age. The second wave employed ethnographic methods to explore the local categories and configurations that...

Thinking and reasoning about evaluating conceptual models and modeling languages has a long, intricate history (e. g. [BCN92], [LSS94], [MS94], [Ma96], [Fr98], [Fr00], [Po02], [Wy04], [Fr07], [Fe12]) entailing enlightening controversial debate (e. g. [Sc99], [Ka99], [Sc00], [Ka00], [Wy06a], [Wy06b]). The discussion includes numerous proposals for evaluation criteria and corresponding methodic g...

What is organizational semiotics? Organizational semiotics tries to understand organizations based on the use of signs, texts, documents, sign-based artefacts and communication, thereby using the results of for instance psychology, economics, and information systems science as basic disciplines. One of the aims of organizational semiotics is showing what you are doing when you are trying to und...

Social proverbs contain life philosophies and experience as well as moral standards; aspects of social life are reflected in the mirror of social proverbs. Social proverbs are of both language and culture. Because of their abundant cultural information, social proverbs have been studied from the point of culture in many researches. Modern semiotics has been widely applied to cultural studies as...

the present study aims to investigate the system of the visual transitivity by analyzing the images of american english file (2014) and cutting edge (2005) series based on halliday’s (1976) systemic functional linguistics and kress and van leuween’s (1997-2006) social semiotics. the system of visual transitivity refers to a type of process which determines how represented participants are label...

This article discusses certain aspects of Peircean semiotics as they can contribute to the social analysis of material artifacts. It focuses on the concepts of iconicity and indexicality, paying particular attention to their roles in mediating contingency and causality, and to their relation with possible actions. Because iconicity and indexicality themselves ‘assert nothing,’ their various soc...

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...

In this article, it is argued that, in the making of a transdisciplinary theory of signification and communication for living, human, social and technological systems, C. S. Peirce’s semiotics is the only one that deals systematically in an evolutionary perspective with non-conscious intentional signs of the body as well as with language. Thus – in competition with the information processing pa...