Semiotic Means Research Articles

Lexical Representation of Olfactory Semiotics in Worldview of Yakut Language

The article is devoted to the exploration of additional semiotic meanings developed by olfactory perceptual lexicon in the Yakut language. The study analyzes lexicographic data on the vocabulary of olfactory perception, as well as the mechanisms of creating a cognitive-semiotic space of a text using this lexicon based on N. A. Lugynov’s work “Ulatyy keme” (“Time of Change”). Smell is consider ed by the authors as a cognitive-linguistic category, representing in the Yakut language not only the physiological aspect of sensory interaction with the world, but also a broad linguistic and cultural context that expresses the sign function of social, everyday, aesthetic, etc. status. The data from translating and explanatory dictionaries of the Yakut language were processed using classical methods of analyzing dictionary definitions, taking into account the elements of distribution of the studied lexical units. As a result of the study, it was established that the perceptual lexicon of olfactory perception, which allows describing smells as signs-indexes in the system of the Yakut language, implements an additional cognitivesemiotic function of signs-symbols in artistic discourse, revealing the internal state of a person, their socio-domestic relationships in society, attitude towards moral and ethical values and life.

Semiosis of conceptual learning of mathematical inequalities through semiotic meaning triads

The process of semiosis for the conceptual learning of inequalities allows the student to revitalize the interpretation, understanding, and solution of problems both in mathematical contexts and in everyday contexts. This research designed and applied a didactic strategy based on the semiotic theory of semiotic treatments and conversions to develop the semiosis processes of conceptual learning of inequalities through the methodology of the semiotic meaning triad and its three phases applied in class sessions focused on the solution of inequalities, defining the domain and range of functions and interpreting the lipid profile of a person.

On the Semiotic Embodiment of British Satirical Drama Films Take Chaplins Monsieur Verdoux and The Gold Rush as an Example

Film semiotics is a theory within the professional discipline of film and television that is rich in meaning. The works of many playwrights can be referred to as textbooks for the application of film semiotics analysis. This paper focuses on two works of drama legend Chaplins The Gold Rush and Monsieur Verdoux to compare and analyze the meaning of film semiotics. The Gold Rush, with The Gold Rush as the background and money as the symbol, satirizes human greed and unlimited pursuit of money and power, describes the weakness of human nature and the flaws of society, and reminds people to cherish the present moment. Monsieur Verdoux, with love as the clue and emotion as the symbol, embodies modern peoples pursuit of love and marriage, reflecting the changes and diversification of the concepts of marriage and love in contemporary society, and the pursuit of freedom and independence, reminding people to cherish freedom and independence, and the pursuit of true happiness. According to the research findings, the future research on movie semiotics still needs to be studied in depth.

Tempo-spatial construction in human-law-society triangle from the perspective of cognitive semiotics

Time and space, habitually seen as the human psychological background, are increasingly being studied as the cognitive foreground for the development and evolution of matters. Via applying the corpus-based method based on the self-complied corpora of the US, the UK, the EU and Chinese data protection laws, this study examines the basic logic framework of time and space, including human psychological representation, semiotic essence, and function, seeking to present a holistic landscape of tempo-spatial construction in humanity, law and society from the perspective of cognitive semiotics. It finds that the human psychological representations in the tempo-spatial construction process contain cyclical time, linear time, place space and field space; the tempo-spatial essence is to express semiotic meanings through social dialogue and power negotiation among legal subjects in social contexts; and the tempo-spatial functions are manifested in mapping cognitive thinking mode of humanity and constructing law and society. It can be argued that legal discourse is the result of the tempo-spatial dialogue between legal subjects that depends on the interaction between society and its members and the overall evolution of its meaning interpretation; the tempo-spatial construction in human-law-society triangle is thus a typical intersemiotic operation. This study demonstrates the utility of sign of time and sign of space as a cognitive perspective in discourse construction and maps the strong interdependence between humanity, law and society.

Guided Play Supporting Immigrant Children’s Participation and Bilingual Development in Preschools

In recent decades, refugee immigration has had significant impact on educational contexts in Sweden, with preschools the primary arenas for young children’s language learning experiences. The present study examines second language and literacy training practices for immigrant children (aged 1–5) in preschools in Sweden. The empirical data consist of video recordings of teacher-guided play activities. These were designed to create rich linguistic and cultural environments facilitating active and democratic participation by the children. Guided play activities were developed in close collaboration between teachers and researchers during action-based interventions that were aimed at constructing child-oriented participatory language learning practices in ethnically and linguistically diverse ECEC settings. The children’s first languages were Tigrinya, Arabic dialects, Somalian, Kurdish dialects, Russian, Spanish and Swedish. The participatory learning potential of guided play was collaboratively analyzed and assessed, and new and revised activities were implemented, based on the goals of inclusivity and children’s active engagement in play and language learning. The analysis shows that teachers’ use of multimodal semiotic means, such as questions, texts and cultural artifacts (stories, material story-related objects, play spaces) were important strategies for the preparation of appealing play environments and activities that contributed to children’s curiosity and participation. These resources served as affordances for guided play, allowing the simultaneous scaffolding of children’s play competencies and their language learning.

Designing Dua Negeri (Two Countries) Batik Influenced by Indonesia and Thailand Shared Culture to Enrich the Batik Repertoire in Both Countries

The study aimed to explore knowledge about the shared culture between Thailand and Indonesia, the story of Garuda and batik traditions, and develop a new cultural product that represents the two cultures visually in the form of batik based on the findings. Samples were determined purposively from the Mother-Inlay-Pearl doors of the Emerald Buddha Temple at the Grand Palace Bangkok and the Semen Agung Sawat Garuda batik from the collection of King Chulalongkorn. This qualitative-descriptive and comparative study used a compositional interpretation approach to analyze the symbolic meaning of visual styles and text semiotics. The analysis could help develop batik with the Dua Negeri concept based on previous studies, batik expert interviews, and visual experiments. The idea is that one piece of batik displays visual styles from two countries. This study showed that Indonesia and Thailand have a shared culture influenced by Hindu Buddhism due to trade, culture, diplomacy, and kinship relations. Both countries have batik traditions, and each has a distinctive visual style. Therefore, the proposed new Dua Negeri batik design is expected to enrich the batik repertoire in both countries and strengthen cultural relations by respecting each other’s cultures.

Semiotic Meaning and Moral Value of ‘‘Mind Over Matters’’ Song By Young The Giant

Songs are frequently sung or listened to without knowing the meaning of the lyrics. The song “Mind Over Matter” by Young the Giant is one of the American indie rock songs that has meaning within its lyrics. The purpose of this research is to discover the semiotic meaning and moral values found in the lyrics of the song “Mind Over Matter” by Young The Giant. The method used in this research is a descriptive qualitative method, with the semiotic approach of Ferdinand De Saussure to find the semiotic meaning and moral values present in the lyrics of the song “Mind Over Matter” by Young The Giant. The song “Mind Over Matter” has a meaning that refers to struggle, determination, and spirit in facing life’s challenges. This song depicts someone who is ready to overcome obstacles and uncertainties with the power of the mind and determination. The lyrics in this song can be interpreted as a message not to give up and keep moving forward despite obstacles or uncertainties. This song stimulates thoughts about the importance of maintaining enthusiasm and belief in facing change and difficult situations in life.

Introduction: The sociolinguistics of exclusion – Indexing (non)belonging in mobile communities

The special issue on ‘The sociolinguistics of exclusion: Indexing (non)belonging in mobile communities’ delves into the phenomenon of exclusion as a means and outcome of social positioning within diverse communities undergoing continual transformation due to social, demographic, political, and technological changes. Through empirical studies that critically engage with exclusionary discourse practices, this issue analyzes the semiotic means that social actors employ to presuppose and/or entail exclusion. Additionally, it explores the underlying ideological assumptions on which these choices are perceived, rationalized, justified, and/or contested as exclusionary.

“Oy with the Poodles Already!”: Yiddishisms and Non-Jewish Characters on American Sitcoms

Abstract The ever-increasing usage of Yiddish on American sitcoms and other comedic genres encompasses Jewish as well as non-Jewish characters. In this study I offer a metalinguistic analysis of how main or recurring fictional characters who are identified as non-Jewish employ Yiddish loanwords, intonation, and syntax (Yiddishisms) in American comedy television. I argue that Yiddishisms spoken by non-Jewish characters introduce three new tropes: the Yiddish Mask, the Yiddish Tourist, and the Yiddish Connector. In all three tropes, humor derives from the incongruence between the non-Jewish speaker and archetypes or stereotypes associated with speakers of Yiddish; however, the use of Yiddish within the Jewish linguistic repertoire also suggests a range of other semiotic meanings.

PHILOSOPHICAL MEANING OF KLANA UDENG MASK MOVIE

Nowadays, the traditional art of masks from Indramayu can still be found in various art forms, such as mask dance and mask puppetry. In its development, the art of mask tradition was adapted to the medium of film. When adapted into the medium of film, the mask dance performance art changes its function to become part of the educational media and part of the cultural tourism promotion in fulfilling the need to maintain the existence of the traditional art of masks to remain sustainable. This research aims to see the changes that occur and the meanings that arise from the traditional art adapted from mask dance into a movie entitled Klana Udeng Mask and identify the philosophical meanings in the movie. To comprehend the changes and meanings from the traditional art adapted from mask dance into a movie entitled Klana Udeng Mask, the researcher uses qualitative research using visual semiotics. In this research, the movie Klana Udeng Mask is interpreted with a semiotic approach from Roland Barthes. The movie Klana Udeng Mask has a philosophical meaning about gratitude and maintaining the relationship between humans and God Almighty. This philosophical meaning is evident in the opening scene of the mask dancers praying to God Almighty and the closing scene of them performing grateful praying movements to God Almighty. Changes in semiotic meaning in the Klana Udeng Mask movie affect the visual signs of the elements in the movie.

A Semiotic Analysis: Exploring the Verbal Signs Found in Fast Food Online Advertisement

The linguistic landscape has changed due to social media platforms which provide real-time interaction and high dynamism. Moreover, the emergence of new media has left a profound impact on the techniques adopted by businesses to maintain a relationship with customers through digital marketing. Online advertisement is a sort of on social media platforms. Every advertisement contains signs. The language cues used in fast food ads will be examined in this study. The two objectives of this study are to identify the verbal signs in fast food commercials and examine the importance of those verbal signs. A descriptive qualitative approach is used in this study which will utilise Leech's theory of meaning and Saussure's theory of semiotics for the data analysis. The study's findings indicate that language cues were presented in the selected fast-food advertisements. Declarative sentences are used as verbal cues. The results will contribute to the current knowledge in the area pertaining to social media advertisement and its significance.

Making: Place, material and metaphor

The editorial highlights how the practitioners featured in issue 14.2 seek intrinsic value within and through making, supported by relationships with the natural and social world. The contributions are clustered into three themes. In ‘materiality and nature’, Tara Chittenden explores ‘Ceramics in the wild: Deep mapping and the moon jars of Adam Buick’, and how the ceramicist’s vessels represent the cycle of a material, and life itself. Myriam Perret‘s ‘Rhythms in the production and commercialization of crafts in Chaco’ reports upon her ethnographic study of the Qow people of Argentina and their craft of cattail harvesting and weaving, revealing seasonal and weather-related choices. Theme 2, ‘making and metaphor’ includes ‘Data becomes quilt’, by Jayne Jackson, who analyses a range of influences and social semiotic meanings encoded within her own and others quilt-making. The relationship of social meanings and craft activities are researched by Miriam Gibson and Rachel Spronken-Smith’s ‘Learning in online and physical craft groups: Motivations and meanings’, while Linnea Kilpi, whose work is featured on the cover, presents ‘Meaning-making through experimental knitting practices’, supported by the concept of ‘Knittedness’. Theme 3, ‘tradition, heritage and the future’, begins with Sara Sintonen and Mikko Snellman’s portrait of ‘Tarmo Thorström’ whose contemporary craft practice is rooted in the cultural tradition of bobbin lace making in Rauma on the west coast of Finland. Wendy Ward’s review of the exhibition, We Are Commoners, speculates on how historical notions of sharing – as represented by ‘the commons’ and exemplified by the Right to Roam and Right to Repair movements – could be re-imagined as the basis for sustainable craft practice. Sarah Teasley’s (2022) Designing Modern Japan, is reviewed by Marie O’Mahony and the Tradition/Innovation: Craft and Future Intangible Cultural Heritage conference held at West Dean College in March 2023, by Paul Harper.

Vectorize Me! A Proposed Machine Learning Approach for Segmenting the Multi-optional Tourist

Contemporary consumer behavior is characterized by its multidimensionality and complexity, which, at the same time, pushes traditional segmentation approaches to their limits. In response, this methodological study proposes a multistage machine learning-based segmentation process using semiotic-semantic community detection. This innovative method was conducted exemplarily and evaluated on a representative sample of 1,101 German travelers. The main contribution of this study lies in the novel use of word vectors, which result from assigning a semiotic meaning to travel-type images. Thus, high-dimensional data could be used during the segmentation process, overcoming several classical segmentation problems. By using semantic similarities, tourists could be grouped and represented in their multidimensionality. From a theoretical perspective, this study was inspired by postmodern tourism practices in order to better understand the (oftentimes) hybrid and multilayered behaviors of tourists. To make this innovative approach reproducible, recommendations for implementation and all necessary data have been provided.

Teacher self-correction of conceptual error: Fictionalisation and shifting epistemological stance in early childhood education teaching

Teachers making errors in explanation that require subsequent self-correction is presumably common in education. However, it may be difficult to capture in research. In this study, teacher self-correction in the context of early childhood science education within a fictive frame was captured on video when documenting science activities over a prolonged time. How the teachers address the error they discover in their teaching and work in correcting it in subsequent activities are analyzed. The error identified and addressed concerns the distinction between a tornado and a dust devil (dust vortex). The empirical data consist of video recordings of teachers-children interaction in Swedish preschool. The participating children are 4 to 5 years old. The findings clarify how the teachers in addressing and correcting the conceptual error uses different semiotic means, with a particular emphasis on the coordination of gesturing and verbal explication when contrasting and explaining the different phenomena. The analysis also clarifies how the fictive character employed leads to a shift in epistemic status of the teachers to becoming co-learners with the children. How addressing and amending errors in explanation may function in deepening meaning making rather than working detrimental to it is discussed.

Linguistic and semiotic representation of pessimism in The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde

This paper focuses on indirect means of verbalizing the phenomenon of pessimism in the texts of literary fairy tales from the point of view of Linguosemiotics. The study aims to determine the linguistic and semiotic means that create the pessimistic discourse of Oscar Wilde’s The Happy Prince and Other Tales collection. Pessimistic discourse is a person-centred discourse type represented by a complex system of means showing the speaker’s pessimistic worldview and is characterized by its goals, style, and tenor. The study contributes to developing Linguosemiotics, Psycholinguistics, and discourse studies and enriches the knowledge about idiostyles. The study is based on the semantic and lingo-semiotic analysis of the ontological phenomenon of pessimism in fictional texts, applying the content analysis to ensure the results’ reliability and validity. Furthermore, the four-staged methodological procedure used in this research allows us to define a general literary context of the analyzed works, select the research material, establish the frequency characteristics of the symbols as lingo-semiotic means that create the pessimistic tonality and discourse of Oscar Wilde’s collection The Happy Prince and Other Tales. The research determines the symbols of nature (seasons, flowers), material world (colours, things of everyday use), distancing, and death (as an ontological category) as verbal triggers of the author’s pessimism implemented in the narration by the contextual markers of basic, adjacent, and related qualitative features of pessimism, which reflect its social, psychological and cognitive aspects. The suggested methodology of the given investigation is perspective within the scope of various genres. Disclosure statement No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

The Character Values of The Pati Ka Offering Ritual at Kelimutu Lake

The Character Values of The Pati Ka Offering Ritual at Kelimutu Lake

Image Schema as Means of Persuasion: Analysis of American Drama Movie Trailers

This study contributes to an understanding of the nature of achieving persuasion via cognitive semiotic means to the analysis of drama movie trailers. It aims at finding out how persuasion could be achieved through employing a cognitive multimodal analysis of movie trailers. The present study intends to analyze three drama movie trailers by applying Johnson’s (1987) image schema model. Johnson’s model is used to analyze the relation between the meanings of words presented in a trailer and how they are connected to contribute to the trailer’s meaning making and persuasive function. The analysis clarifies how movie producers integrate textual material to persuade audience to watch a movie. Results indicate that the prevailing image schema concept is IDENTITY (32.80%), followed by EXISTENCE (24.84%), and then FORCE (19.11%). LOCOMOTION, MULTIPLICITY/ UNITY, CONTAINMENT, and SPACE follow next with (8.92%), (5.42%), (4.78%), and (4.14%) respectively. Image schema patterns are found to aid in inferring details about the characters and the story events, which arouses the audience’s curiosity and thus enhances the promotive function of the trailer. In conclusion, image schema concepts employed in drama movie trailers contribute to the overall persuasive function of movie trailers, and to the audience’s understanding of the logic behind using such words.

Analisis Semiotika Pada Film Parasite Dalam Makna Denotasi Konotasi Dan Pesan Moral

Semiotic Analysis on Parasite Film is the title in this study. Parasite is a film that tells about the social inequality that occurs between the lives of two families (the Park and Kim families) who have very different economies. The Park family is a very wealthy family living in large and elite housing while the Kim family is a family whose family members are unemployed poor and live in a small semibasement house at the end of the road. The conditions experienced by the Kim Family made them try to get out of their poor life by tricking the Park Family. The storyline of this film finally made the writer interested in researching this film with the aim of analyzing the semiotic meaning of denotation and connotation as well as taking moral messages that can be taken from this film where the Parasite film has a storyline that describes human life today. This study uses Roland Barthes' Semiotic Theory. The unit of analysis in this research is the film parasite, where the author takes 10 scenes that the writer will examine. The data collection technique that the writer uses is by watching the original film that is neither cut nor censored from start to finish, observing the scenes the author studies, conducting direct interviews with informants and observing the film. This study uses a descriptive research methodology with a qualitative approach. The author also tests the validity of the data by testing the credibility or trust in the data by triangulating data sources and checking the data by conducting interviews with informants directly and asking questions related to films that help research.

TWO SIZES TOO SMALL: TWO CATEGORIES OF MINIATURE POTTERY IN MINOAN CRETE

Often assumed to be ritual votives or toys for children, miniature ceramic vessels in the Bronze Age Aegean have been afforded little thorough study. Their presence at peak sanctuaries, sacred caves and shrines on Crete has led to their uncritical association with ritual activity, even outside of sacred areas. When miniature pots are found in domestic spaces, they are often dismissed as objects of household ritual or simple toys. Yet miniature vessels, diverse in form and context, are so common in archaeological investigations of Minoan settlements that they merit further comprehensive study. Considered alongside the abundance of small-scale Minoan material culture, including figurines, seals, miniature wall paintings, and models, miniature pottery appears to be one facet of a larger semiotic ideology – one well-versed in the language and power of the miniature. By analysing 504 miniature pots from 13 sites in central and east Crete, this paper explores the wide range of miniature vessel types used in the Protopalatial and Neopalatial periods and applies contextual analysis to draw out their meanings. Contextualisation and data analysis reveal two distinct categories within the corpus of miniature pots: ‘micro-miniatures’ and ‘small miniatures’. While micro-miniatures were indeed inherently cultic, small miniatures served a variety of practical functions within the world of Minoan Crete and should not be assumed to relate to ritual. To differentiate between the categories, the relationship between the miniature and its prototype, as well as its semiotic meaning are considered. By applying Peircean understandings of iconicity and indexicality to these two categories, the use and significance of Bronze Age miniature vessels are further illuminated, in ritual and beyond.

PARATEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF FOLKLORE DISCOURSE

This paradigm of analysis highlighted in this manuscript stresses the contextual significance of paratexts in addition to covering the texts linguistic and visual breadth. Graphic elements are various parts of written discourse that complement the original texts structure without altering its content. Although they do not completely describe the texts content, paratext elements provide readers a general indication of what they can expect to find and what is being told in the text. The prefix para in the word paratext implies associated with, next to, and generally indicates around the text from an etymology perspective. KEY WORDS: folklore discourse, semiotic means, paratextual analysis, narrator, illustrations, aesthetic effect.