From Sign to Text
A semiotic view of communication
Editor
This volume contains selected contributions from the colloquium From Sign to Text' (Ben Gurion University, 1985) and combines the diverse interdisciplinary interests and approaches of the contributors in a fundamentally shared definition of language seen as a flexible and open-ended system of systems' revolving around the notion of signs used by human beings to communicate. The special interrelationship between signs and texts is discussed both theoretically and methodologically. The collection consists of an English and a French section.
[Foundations of Semiotics, 20] 1989. xiii, 545 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 14 November 2011
Published online on 14 November 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Contributors | p. xi
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Introduction | p. 1
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English section
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I. Sign:Context:Text in linguistic analysis
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Why speech seems ungrammaticalFlora Klein-Andreu | p. 25
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On the role of form in going from sign to text and from text to understandingElsa M. Lattey | p. 45
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Space, time, and point-of-view in the Modern Hebrew verbYishai Tobin | p. 61
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Verbal aspects and scripts: An example of interaction between grammatical meanings and cognitive modelsVolkmar Lehmann | p. 93
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Syntagmatic relations and paradigms: Tenses and moods in ancient Greek verbal structure. A semantic analysis of the ancient Greek verb systemCornelis H. van Schooneveld | p. 99
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A study in linguistic sign theory: The suffix -K-A/-KA in modern RussianEdna Andrews | p. 123
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The challenge of polysemyWalter Hirtle | p. 135
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Signs from a growing (creole) languageFlorimon C.M. van Putte | p. 143
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Does sign-oriented linguistics have a future? On sign, text, and the falsifiability of theoretical constructsRobert S. Kirsner | p. 161
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II. The text as sign in literature
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The sheep in wolf’s clothing: Thoughts on modern variations of an ancient fableMarketa Goetz-Stankiewicz | p. 181
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Švejk Don Quixote Jesus ChristHana Arie-Gaifman | p. 191
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The Agnonian text: A study in polaric semiologyEdna Aphek and Yishai Tobin | p. 215
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Open reading of a closed text: Zúñiga’s “Puertas abiertas, puertas cerradas”Elena Reina Carmona and Erica C. García | p. 235
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III. From sign to text in specific text genres
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From sign to text in mathematical discourseJosh Ard | p. 255
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Speaker’s of commitment and involvement in discourseTamar Katriel and Marcelo Dascal | p. 275
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The sign, its addresser and addressee: Aspects of legal and liturgical textsDennis Kurzon | p. 297
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The text as referent: an examination of purim torahZelda Kahan-Newman | p. 307
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From text to sign: exploring translation strategiesMary Snell-Hornby | p. 317
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IV. Signs of deviance in texts
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Normal–deviant–disturbed? The socio-psychological theory of text planningRuth Wodak | p. 333
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On transcribing junkie voicesCharles D. Kaplan | p. 355
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Denial and violence: Signs of a historical context. A comparison of story-telling in two right-extremist youth groupsLena Inowlocki | p. 365
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Deviance in the intonation patterns: A contrastive study of the normal hearing vs. hearing impaired Hebrew speaking Israeli childrenYael Frank | p. 383
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Ethnographic discrepancies in the aesthetic of the Marshfield Paper Boys’ voice disguiseSimon Lichman | p. 393
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French section
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Du signe au texte en linguistique, litterature et dans les arts
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I. Le signe linguistique
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Communication: “Le genre des noms de villes comme signe linguistique”Susanne Feigenbaum | p. 407
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Le signe idiomatique et la production textuelleGertrud Gréciano | p. 415
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Quand le texte ne fait plus signe. Problemes du Francais de France et de l’atlas de l’île-de-FranceMarie-Rose Simoni-Aurembou | p. 425
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Méthodes et problèmes de la lexicologie comparée appliquée a la traductionReiner Arntz | p. 439
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Relativation et conditions d’énonciation: Remarques a propos de certaines relatives “marginales”Michel Pierrard | p. 453
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II. Le texte communicatif
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Entre sens et non-sens dans une perspective textuelleEnrico Arcaini | p. 471
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“Le sens propre du figure”: Questions sur la “texture” linguistique de l’humourMarlena Braester | p. 489
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A la recherche d’une stéganographie dans l’oeuvre romanesque de XVIIe siècleIlana Zinguer | p. 497
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L’image-porche ou la première page enluminée dans les romans médiévauxMartine Dauzier | p. 509
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Les marques de l’énonciation dans le vitrail chartrainJean-Paul Deremble | p. 519
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Name index | p. 529
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Subject index | p. 537
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