Semiotic Approach Research Articles

The concept of building security of the network with elements of the semiotic approach

The object of research: First, to identify and discuss the security problems of cyber-physical systems associated with the emergence of qualitatively new technologies and qualitatively new affordable artificial intelligence software. Secondly, building the concept of the security structure of a cyber-physical system based on the Zero Trust Security approach. Creation of a new secure load transfer structure based on the semiotic approach.
 Investigated problem: Information system security problems continue to cause significant costs and damage to organizations. Sustainability requires comprehensive and integrated security platforms that reach customers, whether they work at headquarters, in a branch office, or individually from random touchpoints.
 The main scientific results: the concept of a structured protection system with the Zero Trust Security approach has been developed. The structure of the semiotic analysis of the segmentation of the transmitted load on the blocks is proposed. Blocks by signs are subjected to individual analysis. According to the features, the blocks are transformed by the selected representation into an object/groups of objects. Groups for transmission in the load are tagged, have different coding severity (depth), depending on the risk assessment. Groups are transmitted through the network in different ways (paths) – VPN (different ESP), unencrypted tunnel, open access, etc.
 This solution improves the throughput of malicious load analysis prior to transmission. The performance overhead for encoding/decoding the load and encapsulating/de-encapsulating during transmission is reduced. The transmission bandwidth is increased.
 The area of practical use of the research results: businesses requiring secure access to on-premise resources and mission-critical cloud environments. Organizations using employees in distributed networks. Specialists in the deployment and analysis of the protection of cyber-physical systems.
 Innovative technological product: The semiotic security concept extends the zero-trust security model, which focuses on protecting network traffic within and between organizations. This concept uses load traffic segmentation, which combines an advanced analysis and transfer load transformation framework.
 This concept provides for integration with other cybersecurity technologies such as endpoint discovery and response (EDR) and security information and event management (SIEM) to provide a more comprehensive security solution.
 This solution improves the throughput of malicious load analysis prior to transmission. Reduced performance resources for encode/decode load and encapsulate/deencapsulate in transit.
 Scope of the innovative technological product: this concept can be applied to enterprises that already have some elements of zero trust in their corporate infrastructure, but cannot strictly control the state of the requested assets, are limited in implementing security policies for certain classes of users. This deployment model can also be applied to enterprises that use cloud services for individual business processes.
 It can be useful for researchers and administrators in the development of corporate cybersecurity plans, which uses the concepts of zero-trust and covers relationships between components, workflow planning, and access policies.

Gaya Kepengarangan dalam Puisi Populer Indonesia Berdasarkan Sistem Tanda dan Makna Simbolik

The sign system in poetry is an element that builds poetry. Therefore, each poem displays a different style based on the use of symbolic signs. The purpose of this study is to classify the style of authorship in Indonesian popular poetry based on the system of signs and symbolic meanings used by the author. The approach used to analyze the sign system and the symbolic meaning is a semiotic approach. The style of authorship is analyzed based on a stylistic approach. The method used for data analysis is a qualitative-descriptive method. The results showed that the sign system and symbolic meaning in Indonesian popular poems are signs in the form of symbols. The symbols are divided into four, namely symbols in the form of phonemes, words, sentences, and typography. Based on the system of signs and symbolic meanings, the styles of authorship in Indonesian popular poems are classified, namely: 1) styles that rely on phonemes; 2) word-based style; 3) sentence-based style, and 4) style that relies on typography. The conclusion of this research is that there are four sign systems and four types of writing styles. The style of authorship based on the sign system in the form of phonemes, words, sentences, and typography is the level of the sign system that is the center of meaning in a poem.

Analyzing verbal and pictorial Arab’s Facebook posts During the Israeli attack on Gaza Strip in 2021

Arab users of social media could express their political views regarding the Palestinian-Israeli conflict between March and June 2021 amid the repressive policies adopted by social networking sites during that period (see e.g., Rayhan-uddin, 2021; Al-Grtly, 2021). In order to evade such policies, Arab users have used some tricks that are worth analysis from a linguistic perspective. The current study analyzes verbal and pictorial Arab’s posts circulated on Facebook during the Israeli attack on Gaza Strip in 2021, and it investigates the attitudes of Facebook Arab users regarding the Palestinian case. The data of the current study consisted of (55) written posts and (47) visual posts collected from the accounts of selected Arab caricaturists and activists. The model of analysis, which was adopted from Kress and van Leeuwen's social semiotic approach, clarifies different messages in visual posts that are categorized according to Kress and van Leeuwen’s representational process types. This study asserts that visual encoding can carry implicit messages that require analysis to uncover the hidden symbolic meanings as well as the interactions between the various signs in caricatures and their ideological and social impacts. The study highlights an ignored part of visual communication in the Arab world and presents novel implications for the domains of semiotics and discourse analysis. Furthermore, this study pursued to provide the field of semiotics with new insights through examining how signs, (e.g., in verbo-pictorial images), can participate in denoting meaning pertinent to the social and political standards of a specific community.

Semiotic Approach to the New Perspectives on Inner Speech.

The article aims at identifying the new perspectives on the study of inaudible internal communication, known as inner speech. This is done by addressing the role of semiotic approach in the contemporary studies of inner speech, emphasising the role of contemporary culture in the formation of human inner communication processes, as well as by critically addressing the recent publications that outline the new directions in inner speech research, more specifically "New Perspectives on Inner Speech" edited by Pablo Fossa (2022). The article develops and expands the framework of the new perspectives on inner speech by focusing on such aspects of inner speech research as the language of inner speech, the role of contemporary digital culture in the formation of inner speech and the advances in the recent research methodologies. The discussions established in the article are based on the recent inner speech studies, as well as the author's own diverse experience in researching inner speech within his PhD research (Fadeev, 2022) and his experience at the inner speech research group at the Department of Semiotics at the University of Tartu.

Communicating Public Health Crisis: Mobile Social Media as a Multimodal Discourse in Times of COVID-19

Mobile social media have been conceptualized as a multimodal discourse that employs semiotic resources to represent public health communication in the context of the pandemic (COVID-19). This study considers Malaysia’s third COVID-19 wave in retrospect and seeks to investigate how this epidemiological crisis in Malaysia is visually communicated on mobile social media. Based primarily on Coleman’s (2010) concept of visual framing and van Leeuwen’s (2008) visual actor network, the present investigation is conducted as a qualitative inquiry from a critical social semiotic approach into 280 pictures presented on a popular WeChat Official Account in China (Weimalaysia (微大马). Much evidence is observed that visuals on mobile social media selectively emphasize certain features of the pandemic crisis in Malaysia. The findings indicate that Malaysia has an acceptable level of control over the pandemic and is generally positive in its outlook on combating COVID-19. The visual misinformation related to “intolerance” elements is not found. Findings not only testify the significance of visuals as valuable information resources in public health crisis communication but also demonstrate the effective role of WeChat official accounts, as a new mobile media discourse, in information dissemination and meaning construction on and around COVID-19.

PLURALITAS MAKNA DALAM “BEN GO TUN” KARYA SAINI K. M. MELALUI SEMIOTIKA BARTHESIAN

This article discusses one of Saini K.M’s drama plays entitled Ben Go Tun (1977), which was published in a book titled Five Witnesses (1999, 2000). The play is regarded as one of the best texts written by this senior playwright , which emphasizes on social problems and inequality in the setting of the New Order Era . Through literature studies and Barthesian's semiotic approach, this paper intends to explore various meanings in the text, in which a literary work is seen as a plural sign system. In its analysis processes, this approach follows a number of steps or procedures that include: 1) the division of the text into units of analysis (lexia), 2) the interpretation of lexias, and 3) a list of codes and their interpretations. Through hermeneutic, semic, symbolic, proairetic, and cultural codes, a number of interpretations are obtained , which illustrate that in the Ben Go Tun manuscript , there are some voices and perspectives in seeing the problems that arise in the story. The drama script is very dynamic in presenting the characters. It also presents various social criticisms with symbols that appear in diverse characters.

The history of the creation of the K-2 residence in Leningrad: an example of Soviet modern architecture

The article is devoted to the government residence "K-2" (dacha - reception house of the Leningrad City Executive Committee) in Leningrad – St. Petersburg. The article offers a comprehensive study of the architectural project (head A.V. Zhuk) and its implementation as an architectural phenomenon in the socio-cultural dimension. The research methodology is based on historical-chronological, structural-functional and semiotic approaches. Based on the historical and cultural analysis of the dynamics of building architecture creation, the article highlights several innovative techniques and functions performed by the residence, such as: representative; memorial, recording outstanding results of the creative team and builders; artistic within the framework of the ensemble perception of the object. The sources of the search for the artistic solution of the project in the process of working on it are indicated. The article illustrates the solutions embodied in the construction, reflects the scale of construction and the improvement of professional methods and techniques. Documents contemporary to the architectural design and its implementation, texts of memoirs by A.V. Zhuk and art historians are analyzed. Based on the conducted research, it is concluded that the reception house is an object perfect in function and artistic image, reflecting the synthesis of innovative techniques, taking into account the specific features of the landscape. The relevance of the preservation of the object is associated with its characteristics unique to the space of St. Petersburg.

On the Concept of Russian Environmental Education in the International Context

The paramount importance of mankind in solving environmental problems, the acuteness of which continues to increase, gives rise to a planetary discourse around the concepts of education for sustainable development. The discussion focuses on the issues of their goals, priorities, organization principles, correlationwith environmental education. The article confirms the conclusion of foreign researchers that today there is not a single serious discussion about the transition to sustainable development, which would not include, on the one hand, the change of goals and methods of education and, on the other hand, would not be connected with the mission of environmental education to form a culture of sustainable development. On the example of comparison of conceptual approaches to environmental education in Western (USA) and Eastern (India) countries the author makes a conclusion about their originality as well as similar understanding of problems of environmental education for sustainable development, its goals, principles of realization, place in education for sustainable development. In the light of solution of raised problems, typical for different countries, main provisions of domestic Conception of environmental education in the system of general education (2022) are considered. Both its adherence to general world tendencies and novelty of solutions suggested by it are proved. Ways of making environmental education for sustainable development “transversal” and interdisciplinary character in the general education system are considered: development of metalanguage, common for all school subjects; introduction of basic model of personal environmental culture as a result of environmental education; realization of general subject ecologization technology; use of scientifically grounded system of criteria and indicators of environmental education, as well as combination of its forward-looking and regenerative orientation. The article notes that the key provisions of the concept have been tested for over 10 years in the course of experimental studies in 18 regions of the country in interdisciplinary research, combining pedagogical, culturological, activity, axiological and semiotic approaches.

A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of TikTok FYP Video

This study contains the presentation of the results of critical discourse analysis on the FYP TikTok video which has now turned its function into a hedonistic lifestyle on an account with the initials TI because it displays a 10-second video with a description of you being married, I who are supported. This research has a basis for visually analyzing FYP videos on tiktok. This study uses a semiotic approach with the main focus on multimodal which includes linguistic, visual, audio, and body gestures aspects. Based on the results of the analysis, the sentence can represent that she really likes and enjoys her situation that even though she is not married to someone's husband, she still gets 'subsistence' or money. For that, she thanked his wife that she had let her husband provide for her needs. She also thanked her husband that she was very happy to have been given what she needed.

Kajian Semiotika dalam Sajak “Bilang” dan “Memilikimu” Karya Tere Liye

The article entitled Semiotic Studies in the Poems "Bilang" and "Memilikimu" by Tere Liye is a semiotic study that discusses two poems by Tere Liye entitled, "Memilikimu" and "Bilang". The purpose of this research is to produce an interpretation that contains the theme of humanity with the problem of love in the two poems and to describe the meaning through signs that produce interpretations through the study of Semiotics. Analysis of the two titles of this poem uses a qualitative descriptive method. The approach used is Aart Van Zoest's semiotic approach. The technique that we use is the reading technique. The researcher reads the entire poem and then records the words, phrases and clauses to find signs that result in an interpretation that contains the theme of humanity with the value of love in the two poems. The results of the research are the poems entitled "Bilang" and "Memilikimu" which contain the theme of humanity which contains the meaning of love that does not reach and cannot have. In both poems, the dominance of incomplete sentence patterns was found, the dominance of phrases/words with meaningful denotations, and five figures of speech were found, including repetition, cynicism, allegory, hyperbole and parallelism. Meanwhile, the isotopes used in the two poems are character isotope, perception isotope, movement isotope, nature isotope, human isotope and space isotope. I lyrics in both poems use singular personal pronouns and plural personal pronouns. In addition, these poems are advice from poets to readers regarding matters of love.

Semiotic representations of neoliberal dystopia in Black Mirror

ABSTRACT Neoliberalism as phenomenon has been noted for its pervasiveness, persistence and negative impact in society. The uncertainty, pessimism and tension associated with neoliberal societies have found expression in popular culture entertainment, more specifically in dystopic depictions of societies influenced by neoliberal logic. These dystopic presentations offer fantastical depictions as allegories, holding up our current realities for critique. While many studies have examined presentations of dystopia from various scholarly perspectives, we employ here a social semiotics approach to examine how semiotic resources are deployed in dystopic presentations of neoliberalism – neoliberal dystopia – to engender critical stances and attitudes. Using excerpts from the Netflix science fiction series Black Mirror, our study shows how combinations of semiotic resources are employed to draw critical attention to representations of neoliberal realities and society. The use of a social semiotics approach offers systematicity in the examination of representations of meaning via the utilization of established analytical frameworks, adding to already-existing commentaries on neoliberal dystopia.

KEPEMIMPINAN PERSPEKTIF ALQURAN; INTERPRETASI SEMIOTIK QS. AL-BAQARAH (2): 30-34

This paper discusses the issue of leadership in QS. Al-Baqarah (2): 30-34. The data in this paper will be analyzed through Charles Sanders Pierce's Semiotics approach. This article describes several factors that are often used as benchmarks for becoming a leader, namely spiritual piety, lineage and knowledge capacity. According to the Alquran, leadership is not about how pious or descended from blue blood or aristocracy, but rather who has the capacity (knowledge) to become a leader regardless of the origin of their descendants

Transformation of Architecture of Rumoh Aceh: An Encoding Process Through Semiotic

Rumoh aceh is a Acehnese traditional house which is one of the products and artifacts of the Acehnese culture. Efforts to preserve rumoh aceh often focus on physical aspects or aspects of form that are seen directly. This has led to the discovery of many new buildings that adopt the architectural form of rumoh aceh directly without a more comprehensive elaboration and transformation process. A concerted effort is required to present rumoh aceh architecture in a modern context. Transformation is one of the methods in architectural design to be able to present new ideas that are creative and innovative. The transformation in this paper is obtained through an encoding process that employs a semiotic approach as a method for bridging the rumoh aceh architecture transformation process. The encoding process is carried out by reinterpreting the values of rumoh aceh architecture obtained from previous research. The aim of this paper is to gain knowledge regarding the architectural design process that can present a creation that represents regional culture, in this case to present rumoh aceh architecture in a modern context.

Social Distancing During the Pandemic: A Semiotic Approach to Organizational Response through Commercial Branding

Social distancing is one of the most practical and most widely emphasized non-pharmaceutical interventions recommended globally in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Even though its efficacy remains debatable, social distancing continues to be advocated as a strategy to “flatten the curve” by reducing individual infections. This study aims to decode the semiotics of COVID-19 pandemic from one side and to show how commercial branding transformations took place from another. Global organizations have aligned themselves with social distancing precautions by adapting their commercial branding for visual messaging. This study takes a semiotic approach to the commercial branding of companies that could transform their branding during the pandemic and those that did. The two questions addressed by the study are: (1) How did commercial branding transform during the COVID-19 pandemic, and (2) what semiotic codes are evident in these transformations? The findings show that organizational branding was separated or reworded or took a two-pronged approach (combining rewording and transformed images).

Imaginaries of Abya Yala: Indigenous filmmaking in Latin America from a multimodal semiotic perspective

ABSTRACT This article argues that multimodal semiotics can provide an analytical lens to critically understand recent film and media production by Indigenous people and communities in southern and central Abya Yala (or Latin America). It suggests precise ways to analyse this film and media production as the emergence of alternative public or ‘counter-public’ spaces that allow for the expression of ‘emergent’ forms of Indigeneity that contest dominant modes of representation. The argument focuses not only on these Indigenous texts’ semiotic contents (their design and production) but also on their discursive features, distribution and reception. The article ends up revealing that a multimodal semiotic approach provides a very useful toolbox to make sense of the complex and multi-layered nature of the various emerging cinemas of Abya Yala. The article argues that this approach allows for a better appreciation of the diversity of Indigenous film production, while also facilitating a critical engagement with the issues this media production raises in terms of authorship and modes of representation, among other issues.

Thesaurus modelling of English mythological terminology (semantic field for the term «God»)

It is found that in the mythological discourse of English-speaking countries there are many concepts that are represented in the minds of people who study English as a fuzzy set of isolated concepts. This leads to difficulties that hinder the understanding and correct use of mythological terminology. The purpose of the study is to systematize the English-language mythological discourse and its terms using the thesaurus approach, which involves the construction of semantic fields and the identification of the information-semiotic nature of the studied terminology. To identify the meaning of the terms under study, we chose a semiotic approach, since in it each linguistic sign is considered as a sign consisting of the signified or content side of the linguistic sign and the signifier (otherwise called the MY? expression). It is in the signified of the linguistic sign that the meaning components are laid, which allow revealing the semantic nature of the term. Thus, it is the information-semiotic nature of the terminology Greek mythology that acts as the subject of research. In the course of the study, the semantic field god was constructed with two schemes of semantic relations; a dictionary entry was written for each term of this field. The study showed that the identification of the information-semiotic nature of English mythological terminology contributed not only to the differentiation of nuances in the meaning of mythological terms due to the creation of new dictionary entries, but also helped to clearly illustrate the connection of terms within the field by constructing schemes intended for the title term God. The results obtained can be used in the process of professional training of linguists, as well as for the development of lecture courses and for conducting seminars on foreign literature

The construction of interactive and multimodal reading in school—a performative, collaborative and dynamic reading

This study aims to demonstrate how interactions between a Visual Analytics (VA) application and students shape an interactive and multimodal reading practice. VA is a technology offering support with analysing vast amounts of data through visualisations. Such information-rich interactive interfaces provide possibilities for students to gain insights, find correlations, draw conclusions and gain insights, but they also generate complexities concerning how to ‘read’ multimodal information on a screen. Inspired by Design-Based Research, interventions were designed and conducted in five social science secondary classrooms. The interactions between the VA application Statistics eXplorer and the students were video captured. A socio-material semiotic approach guides the analyses of how interactions between all actors (the interactive visualisations, the written text, the teachers, students, etc.) produce a reading network. The results show a reading characterised by being performative, collaborative, and dynamic. A combination of visuals and text supports the reading. However, visuals such as colour, highlighting and movement dominantly attract students’ attention, while written text often becomes subordinate and sometimes even ‘invisible’. Hence, this paper argues that it is vital for teachers to didactically support students’ visual reading skills.

WORDSWORTH'UN “BİR BULUT GİBİ TEK BAŞINA GEZİNDİM

This present study tries to explore meaning of symbols in Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud” (Daffodils). In order to reveal the symbolic meaning of the poem, Charles Sander’s Peirce the process of triadic in other words Peirce’s triadic model is used in the study. Qualitative descriptive method is used in the study to explore the data. In this regard, semiotic approach is used in this paper in order to analyze nature oriented symbols in the poem. Based on Peirce’s triadic model, this study concludes that the poet uses nature oriended symbols in order to convey the natural life experiences and positive side of natural life versus industrialism. In addition, natural beauty, miracles of universe are conveyed by means of symbolic meanings and connotations. As implied earilier, the current study is based on qualitative interpretive based on Peirce’s triadic semiotic approach. This paper deals with symbols and their explicit and implicit meaning. Denotatively, the poem’s main subject is not about the daffodils. Connotatively, the poem focuses on natural views, nature oriented experiences. Mostly, the sign of the daffodils construct positive connotations related to natural views and natural life. The poem is based on a traveler while travelling in the countryside. The concept of countryside in terms of context and setting plays a significant role in the poem. Because it establishes positive tone in other words positive connotations and symbols in the poem. Many literary devices are used in the poem such as simile, metonymy, personification. This present study focuses on symbols and their explicit and implicit meaning in the poem. As mentioned before, Peirce’s semiotic model is used in order to analyze the symbols in the poem. In addition, the narrator of the poem’s state of mind and his feelings and emotions are explored based on Peirce’s triadic model. In this respect, the study focuses on symbolic meaning of the poem. This present study concludes that the poet uses natrure oriented signs in other words symbols in order to construct “natural”scene of meaning.

Pulkovo Airport Terminal in Leningrad is a Masterpiece of Domestic Modernism

This article is devoted to the Pulkovo airport terminal complex in Leningrad – Saint-Petersburg. The article offers comprehensive research on the architectural project (the project leader A.V. Zhuk) and its implementation as an architectural phenomenon in a sociocultural context. The research methodology is based on historical, chronological, structural, functional, and semiotic approaches. Based on historical and cultural analysis of the transformation and improvement of the project during the period of its realisation, the article shows a few innovative functions of the airport, besides its primary technological function, such as: representative function; memorial function, preserving results of the creative team's work and builders work; artistic function within the ensemble perception of the project. The article also shows the project's dynamic of development and enhancement throughout fulfilled work on it. The article illustrates the design solutions embodied in full in the construction, reflects the scale of construction and improvement of professional methods and techniques. The author also reviewed and analysed texts and documents contemporary to the architectural conception and its implementation. Based on the research, the author makes a conclusion about the Pulkovo airport being an object, perfect by its function and artistic image, representing a synthesis of innovative methods, taking landscape features into account, and translating the author's cultural experience. The relevance of the preservation of the airport is related to its characteristics, which are unique for world architecture and Saint-Petersburg's environment. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the statement about the building of Pulkovo airport being a perfect example of an embodiment of rationalism ideas in conjunction with the creation of vivid artistic imagery. Also, the thesis is presented, about the creative team successfully combining bold technological innovations with a humanistic focus of the functional object.

Charles Sanders pierce and tricotomic relations (icons, index and symbols) in the Surah al-Kahf Verse 83-101: semiotic approach

Charles Sanders pierce and tricotomic relations (icons, index and symbols) in the Surah al-Kahf Verse 83-101: semiotic approach