The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction

Ulmer, Gregory L.; Culler, Jonathan

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“…The first group is, in effect, the researchers from semiotics in general and literary semiotics in particular. The main figures in the domain of semiotics are Kristeva (1981), Riffaterre (1978), Frow (1986), Culler (1981), Meinhof and Smith (2000) and Chandler (2005). Researchers on the domain of semiotics mainly concern to explore the complex and heterogeneous nature of literary works through conducting intertextuality analysis.…”

Section: Review Of Literaturementioning

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An Investigation into the Representation of Intertextuality in the ELT Series Four Corners

Vahdani¹,

Saeed²

2015

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Abstract-The major intent of this study was to investigate the way through which intertextuality has being utilized in the Four Corners series. To this end, Fairclough's (1992) framework in dealing with intertextuality were deployed. Hence, ten reading passages were selected randomly among the passages of the series which were analyzed in terms of intertextuality types and ways of reporting. The results of the investigation revealed that sequential and manifest intertextuality was deployed in the reading passages in which different texts or discourse types were alternated and merged in a more separable way. Furthermore, the results of the study showed that the reading passages relied heavily on direct reporting in some cases on indirect and narrative reporting strategies of intertextuality. Hence, the findings of the study showed that intertextuality were utilized for imposing some particular relationship between a specific text and a genre and also the relationship between a text and its cultural context. Index Terms-intertextuality, sequential intertextuality, mixed intertextuality, indirect reporting, narrative reporting of speech act

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Section: Review Of Literaturementioning

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An Investigation into the Representation of Intertextuality in the ELT Series Four Corners

Vahdani¹,

Saeed²

2015

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“…is that elements of a text do not have intrinsic meaning as autonomous entities but derive their significance from oppositions which are in turn related to other oppositions in a process of theoretically infinite semiosis'. 96 This perspective still attempts to control the irreducible plurality of the given circumstances by pressing them into a predetermined scheme. It operates with the idea of a recognizable underlying 'syntax' structuring the legal operations.…”

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Carl Schmitt's Fear: Nomos – Norm – Network

Augsberg¹

2010

Leiden Journal of International Law

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Carl Schmitt is still astonishingly present in the legal discourse. Yet instead of indulging in the study of his explicit 'lesson' and its possible impact on contemporary legal problems, it might be worthwhile to survey the primary cause of his greatest fear. Following this perspective, the article analyses Schmitt's concept of the nomos, distinguishing it from the traditional normativist approach on the one hand and confronting it with a more recent understanding of law in terms of the network conception on the other. Thus Schmitt's view of the developing legal system in the twentieth century proves to be relevant to our current efforts to grasp newly emerging legal phenomena in the twenty-first century.

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“…For it is the shock effect of references to breaches of moral taboo which gives myth its 'meaning'... the moral point is made clear by emphasising the over-whelming disasters which are directly associated with the mythical breach of non-nality. (Leach 1973in Culler 1981 Given this , it begins to become clearer as to why media stories about child stars hold such power to shock. The child who has transgressed into adult territory creates 'vicarious excitement', the immoral behaviour of greedy parents who are supposed to protect their children shocks us and we feel a sense of satisfaction at learning of the downfall of such ambiguous individuals who represent a threat to our shared social order.…”

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The Cultural Significance of the Child Star

O’Connor

2010

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This study provides a sociological account of the child star as both a universal and culturally specific phenomenon. Arguing against dominant 'common-sense' definitions of child stars as precociously deviant, I relocate the child star as a product of wider social contradictions and constructions surrounding children and childhood more generally.Through an analysis of the way in which child stars are constructed in the textual media I demonstrate two central and competing discourses in relation to this group -one which focuses on their powerlessness due to their 'abnormal' status in relation to 'normal' children and the other which celebrates their power due to their 'natural' talents and redemptive qualities. These contradictory-positions are identified through a consideration of the historical and mythological antecedents of today's child stars as well as an analysis of the contemporary discourses which inform news stories about such individuals.I argue that such ambiguity towards child stars can be identified as symptomatic of complex attitudes towards children in our society. The hostility which subjectifies child stars and generates powerlessness can be understood as emanating from the habitual association of performing children with precocious sexuality, the commercialisation of childhood and the fear that children are 'growing up too quickly'. In contrast, the adoration of child stars which imbues them with the power to be reinvented with every new generation can be related to a more profound universal need to reify and admire a small number of 'special' children -a practice which is identifiable across the myths and folklore of the world (Jung 1959).By identifying child stars as both powerless and powerful because of their difference to 'normal' children this study exposes how dominant constructions serve to demonise certain experiences of childhood and validate others, as well as highlighting the important role the child star plays in symbolising hope, innocence and futurity in our society.

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The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction

Cited by 145 publications

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An Investigation into the Representation of Intertextuality in the ELT Series Four Corners

An Investigation into the Representation of Intertextuality in the ELT Series Four Corners

Carl Schmitt's Fear: Nomos – Norm – Network

The Cultural Significance of the Child Star

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