Paul Bouissac
Biographic Data
| ID | 174518 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Bouissac |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Bouissac |
| SIGNATURE | BOUISSAC P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3889-8453 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Lecture de l’image érotique: Théorie d’une pratique
LE. CHOIX DE L'IMAGE EROTIQUE comme terrain d'enquête relève d'une stratégie de recherche qui consiste à aborder un problème par l'étude d'un cas limite. Le pari heuristique qui est ainsi fait ·consiste à poser "hypothèse que le phénomène considéré n'est pas une anomalie, mais, au contraire, révèle des caractéristiques essentielles par une exagération naturelle de ses traits les plus importants. Le problème de la lecture de l'image vise en effet …
Body, in Interaction
From arctic to tropical climates, on land and sea, the human body must meet numerous challenges, both physical and social, to survive and reproduce in an environment defined by the laws of gravity and evolution. As a social organism, the human primate develops and matures through a dense net of interactions with other humans and animals. The evolution of tool making provided the body with extensions that helped humans to successfully mediate thes…
Ethno-semiotics of a circus act: Mirko and his goats
Paul Bouissac Punctum, 2(2): 14-23, 2016 DOI: 10.18680/hss.2016.0012 Abstract This article addresses the challenges of engaging in ethno-semiotics research of circus performances and provides an example to illustrate the methodological strategy that is proposed. The approach is bottom-up rather than top-down. First a fine-grained description that integrates both perceptual information and emotional experience from the individual [...]
Semiotics as the science of memory
The notion of culture implies the relative stability of sets of algorithms that become entrenched in human brains as children become socialized, and, to a lesser extent, when immigrants become assimilated into a new society. The semiotics of culture has used the notion of signs and systems of signs to conceptualize this process, which takes for granted memory as a natural affordance of the brain without raising the question of how and why cultura…
Gesture in evolutionary perspective
Gesture is mostly a function of the upper limbs of Homo sapiens and is constrained by the skeleton and neuromuscular apparatus which have evolved under the selection pressures of arboreal environments. This article raises the issue of the early adaptations which determined the range of movements which made possible the emergence of gesture both technical and cultural. It addresses the problem of explaining in evolutionary terms the multi-function…
On signs, memes and Mems: Toward evolutionary ecosemiotics
The first issue raised by this paper is whether semiotics can bring any added value to ecology. A brief examination of the epistemological status of semiotics in its current forms suggests that semiotics' phenomenological macroconcepts are incommensurate with the complexity of the sciences comprising ecology and are too reductive to usefully map the microprocesses through which organisms evolve and interact. However, there are at least two ground…
Encyclopedia of Semiotics
The Encyclopedia of Semiotics is the first comprehensive guide to the topics, theories, and thinkers of this rapidly expanding field of knowledge. Drawing on classic and current work in linguistics, philosophy, literary theory, cognitive science, anthropology, and other disciplines, the Encyclopedia of Semiotics provides an unprecedented point of entry for students, teachers, and to a diverse, influential and rapidly growing body of knowledge. Se…
Converging Parallels: Semiotics and Psychology in Evolutionary Perspective
This paper examines the interface between semiotics and psychology, first from the historical point of view of their parallel developments originating in late 18th-century philosophy, then from the theoretical perspective of contemporary evolutionary thinking. Undifferentiated within the speculations of the French `Idéologues', such as Destutt de Tracy (1754-1836), semiotics and psychology progressively acquired distinct epistemological and insti…
Eclaircies de la parole
Art or script? A falsifiable semiotic hypothesis
Introduction: A challenge for semiotics
Article d'introduction sur la semiotique de la Prehistoire definisant la problematique de l'ouvrage. Considerant que l'art parietal, sous toutes ses formes (signes peints ou graves), les grottes, les restes osseux etc. constituent les archives des debuts de l'histoire humaine d'une part et que le nombre de mises au jour de ces archives se multiplie d'autre part, l'A. plaide pour la creation d'une banque de donnees. Celle-ci, sortie des discusions…
Ecology of Street Performance
From calculus to language: The case of circus equine displays
Introduction: The circus — a semiotic spectroscopy
Poèmes en marge: "Les " Limericks
Poèmes en marge : les " limericks "Le limerick est une forme poétique fixe qui articule généralement un contenu obscène et/ou absurde. Situé dans les marges de la poésie, ce genre, très productif, est particulier à l'univers culturel anglophone. Folkloristes et amateurs de limericks ont établi un abondant corpus qui offre à la curiosité de l'ethnologue un objet de choix dans la mesure où il donne accès aux marges de la culture anglo-saxonne, aux …
La pyramide et la roue: Jeux Formels Et Effets De Sens Dans Les Spectacles De Cirque
Paul Bouissac, La pyramide et la roue: jeux formels et effets de sens dans les spectacles de cirque, Anthropologica, New Series, Vol. 27, No. 1/2, Victor Turner: Un Hommage Canadien / A Canadian Tribute (1985), pp. 101-121
General/Theoretical Anthropology: The Anthropology of World's Fairs: San Francisco's Panama Pacific International Exposition of 1915. Burton Benedict
Persiflage de l'institution amoureuse: "Séduction Et Dérision Dans l'Entrée Clownesque Des " Rossignols
Persiflage de l'institution amoureuse : séduction et dérision dans l'entrée clownesque des " rossignols ". Un article de la revue Anthropologie et Sociétés (La dérision des pouvoirs) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Semiotics and Surrealism
Le cirque: Opérations et opérateurs sémiotiques
On peut considrer, du moins titre d'hypothse, que tout numro de cirque est susceptible d'une description abstraite permettant d'y distinguer trois catgories d'vnements : positions de classes, constructions de situations, et oprations effectues sur les premires et sur les secondes. Cette dmarche mthodologique n'est pas l'effet d'un principe a priori, mais le rsultat de nombreuses observations suivies d'analyses exploratoires, clectiquement inspire…
Circus and Culture, a Semiotic Approach
A Descriptive and Bibliographic Catalog of the Circus & Related Arts Collection at Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois
Decoding Limericks: A Structuralist Approach
Circus performances as texts: A matter of poetic competence
Myths vs. Rites: A Study of “Wild” Animal Displays in Circuses and Zoos
Semiotics as the science of memory
The notion of culture implies the relative stability of sets of algorithms that become entrenched in human brains as children become socialized, and, to a lesser extent, when immigrants become assimilated into a new society. The semiotics of culture has used the notion of signs and systems of signs to conceptualize this process, which takes for granted memory as a natural affordance of the brain without raising the question of how and why cultura…
On signs, memes and Mems: Toward evolutionary ecosemiotics
The first issue raised by this paper is whether semiotics can bring any added value to ecology. A brief examination of the epistemological status of semiotics in its current forms suggests that semiotics' phenomenological macroconcepts are incommensurate with the complexity of the sciences comprising ecology and are too reductive to usefully map the microprocesses through which organisms evolve and interact. However, there are at least two ground…
Introduction: A challenge for semiotics
Article d'introduction sur la semiotique de la Prehistoire definisant la problematique de l'ouvrage. Considerant que l'art parietal, sous toutes ses formes (signes peints ou graves), les grottes, les restes osseux etc. constituent les archives des debuts de l'histoire humaine d'une part et que le nombre de mises au jour de ces archives se multiplie d'autre part, l'A. plaide pour la creation d'une banque de donnees. Celle-ci, sortie des discusions…
Myths vs. Rites: A Study of “Wild” Animal Displays in Circuses and Zoos
Le statut sémiotique de l'affiche de cirque
Volumes sonores et volumes gestuels dans un numéro d'acrobatie (pour une expression mathématique des gestes): (Pour Une Expression Mathématique Des Gestes)
Bouissac P. A. R. Volumes sonores et volumes gestuels dans un numéro d'acrobatie (pour une expression mathématique des gestes). In: Langages, 3e année, n°10, 1968. Pratiques et langages gestuels. pp. 128-131
Pour une sémiotique du cirque
Poetics in the Lion's Den: The Circus Act as a Text
Le statut sémiotique de l'affiche de cirque
Myths vs. Rites: A Study of “Wild” Animal Displays in Circuses and Zoos
Circus performances as texts: A matter of poetic competence
A Descriptive and Bibliographic Catalog of the Circus & Related Arts Collection at Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois
Decoding Limericks: A Structuralist Approach
Semiotics and Surrealism
Le cirque: Opérations et opérateurs sémiotiques
On peut considrer, du moins titre d'hypothse, que tout numro de cirque est susceptible d'une description abstraite permettant d'y distinguer trois catgories d'vnements : positions de classes, constructions de situations, et oprations effectues sur les premires et sur les secondes. Cette dmarche mthodologique n'est pas l'effet d'un principe a priori, mais le rsultat de nombreuses observations suivies d'analyses exploratoires, clectiquement inspire…
Circus and Culture, a Semiotic Approach
Persiflage de l'institution amoureuse: "Séduction Et Dérision Dans l'Entrée Clownesque Des " Rossignols
Persiflage de l'institution amoureuse : séduction et dérision dans l'entrée clownesque des " rossignols ". Un article de la revue Anthropologie et Sociétés (La dérision des pouvoirs) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
La pyramide et la roue: Jeux Formels Et Effets De Sens Dans Les Spectacles De Cirque
Paul Bouissac, La pyramide et la roue: jeux formels et effets de sens dans les spectacles de cirque, Anthropologica, New Series, Vol. 27, No. 1/2, Victor Turner: Un Hommage Canadien / A Canadian Tribute (1985), pp. 101-121
General/Theoretical Anthropology: The Anthropology of World's Fairs: San Francisco's Panama Pacific International Exposition of 1915. Burton Benedict
Poèmes en marge: "Les " Limericks
Poèmes en marge : les " limericks "Le limerick est une forme poétique fixe qui articule généralement un contenu obscène et/ou absurde. Situé dans les marges de la poésie, ce genre, très productif, est particulier à l'univers culturel anglophone. Folkloristes et amateurs de limericks ont établi un abondant corpus qui offre à la curiosité de l'ethnologue un objet de choix dans la mesure où il donne accès aux marges de la culture anglo-saxonne, aux …
From calculus to language: The case of circus equine displays
Introduction: The circus — a semiotic spectroscopy
Ecology of Street Performance
Art or script? A falsifiable semiotic hypothesis
Introduction: A challenge for semiotics
Article d'introduction sur la semiotique de la Prehistoire definisant la problematique de l'ouvrage. Considerant que l'art parietal, sous toutes ses formes (signes peints ou graves), les grottes, les restes osseux etc. constituent les archives des debuts de l'histoire humaine d'une part et que le nombre de mises au jour de ces archives se multiplie d'autre part, l'A. plaide pour la creation d'une banque de donnees. Celle-ci, sortie des discusions…
Eclaircies de la parole
Converging Parallels: Semiotics and Psychology in Evolutionary Perspective
This paper examines the interface between semiotics and psychology, first from the historical point of view of their parallel developments originating in late 18th-century philosophy, then from the theoretical perspective of contemporary evolutionary thinking. Undifferentiated within the speculations of the French `Idéologues', such as Destutt de Tracy (1754-1836), semiotics and psychology progressively acquired distinct epistemological and insti…
Encyclopedia of Semiotics
The Encyclopedia of Semiotics is the first comprehensive guide to the topics, theories, and thinkers of this rapidly expanding field of knowledge. Drawing on classic and current work in linguistics, philosophy, literary theory, cognitive science, anthropology, and other disciplines, the Encyclopedia of Semiotics provides an unprecedented point of entry for students, teachers, and to a diverse, influential and rapidly growing body of knowledge. Se…
On signs, memes and Mems: Toward evolutionary ecosemiotics
The first issue raised by this paper is whether semiotics can bring any added value to ecology. A brief examination of the epistemological status of semiotics in its current forms suggests that semiotics' phenomenological macroconcepts are incommensurate with the complexity of the sciences comprising ecology and are too reductive to usefully map the microprocesses through which organisms evolve and interact. However, there are at least two ground…
Gesture in evolutionary perspective
Gesture is mostly a function of the upper limbs of Homo sapiens and is constrained by the skeleton and neuromuscular apparatus which have evolved under the selection pressures of arboreal environments. This article raises the issue of the early adaptations which determined the range of movements which made possible the emergence of gesture both technical and cultural. It addresses the problem of explaining in evolutionary terms the multi-function…
Philosophy (18 works) · Art (16 works) · Semiotics (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Linguistics (11 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Humanities (9 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Cultural Insights and Digital Impacts (5 works)