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 paper presents some key concepts and underlying assumptions of three current fields of research: the Theory of Organized Activity, Organizational Semiotics and Language Action Perspective. All these fields are related by a human/social/organizational common view of Information Systems. In our analysis and, within Organizational Semiotics field Ronald Stamper’s theory was chosen, while with...

Within the IS research field, there are many views on how to understand the use of IT systems. Within the community of organisational semiotics, Stamper’s semiotic framework has been used as a tool to understand information systems at different abstraction levels. Another theory related to organisational semiotics, Information Systems Actability Theory (ISAT), argues that social action theories...

yuri lotmn (1993-1922) is the founder of the moscow-tartu school. he has a distinguished role in introducing and developing the “theory of intercultural semiotics”. in lotman’s opinion, cultural semiotics considers each text as a cultural totality. the existing signs in the text could indicate the way in which the significances are produced to achieve a certain specific meanings in a culture. h...

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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...

Technical proficiency has not enabled our profession to deliver value for money in terms of improved organisational performance. Evidence of this failure is adduced. The recommended change is to approach organisations as the information systems we develop. To achieve this we need a better understanding of information, the key resource, better ways of modelling organisations in information terms...

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...