Alexandros Ph Lagopoulos
Biographic Data
| ID | 953772 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexandros Ph Lagopoulos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexandros Ph |
| FAMILY NAME | Lagopoulos |
| SIGNATURE | LAGOPOULOS A P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6953-0611 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The semiotics of the pandemic
By: Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos and Karin Boklund-Lagopoulou ARTICLE INFO: Volume: 07 Issue: 01:2021 ISSN: 2459-2943 DOI: 10.18680/hss.2021.0010 Pages: 148-164 Lic.: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 André Helbo (ed.), 2020 Crise sanitaire et marqueurs sémiotiques. La variation. Special double issue of Degrés, No. 182-183, Summer-Autumn 2020. 174 pp. Subscription €70.00 (ISSN 07708378). Download full text: [...]
Theory and Methodology of Semiotics: The Tradition of Ferdinand de Saussure
The book is an in-depth presentation of the European branch of semiotic theory, originating in the work of Ferdinand de Saussure. It has four parts: a historical introduction, the analysis of langue, narrative theory and communication theory. Part I briefly presents all the semiotic schools and their main points of reference. Although this material is accessible in many other Anglophone publications, the presentation is marked by specific choices…
The cultural transformation of the proprioceptive senses
The research question of the present paper is what relation exists between biology and cultural semiosis and I examine as a token of this question the relation between the physiological senses of proprioception and the cultural concepts corresponding to them. While the origins of semiosis are biological, the origin of proprioceptive concepts is debated. Against the biological view that the proprioceptive senses define directly the concepts corres…
Land-Use Planning Methodology and Middle-Ground Planning Theories
This paper argues that a monolithic land-use planning “grand narrative” is not sufficiently flexible, but that the fragmentation into innumerable “small narratives” goes against any sense of the existence of an established domain of knowledge. Its aim is to explore the epistemological possibility for “middle ground” theories. The methodology adopted for this purpose is to take as a standard reference the methodological components of comprehensive…
Clarifying Theoretical and Applied Land-Use Planning Concepts
Land-use planning is currently characterised by three weaknesses: a relative lack of systematic analysis of the theoretical and technical aspects of planning, a neglect of methodology and a lack of interest in clarifying key concepts. The present paper attempts to address these issues in a systematic manner on the basis of an explicit epistemological background. The strategy adopted is to focus on ten critical concepts covering the key areas of t…
Introduction: The role of methodology in semiotic theory building
Karin Boklund-Lagopoulou & Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos Punctum, 3(2): 5-32, 2017 DOI: 10.18680/hss.2017.0013 What are the criteria for a well-built scientific theory? Each scientific field incorporates four levels of operations. The first level is that of epistemology, the integration, explicit and conscious or implicit and empirical, of any theory into one of the larger paradigms marking [...]
The Classification of Urban Uses
The classification of uses is one of the central issues of urban planning, since it is only by referring to groups of uses that we can achieve the simplification and, ultimately, the understanding of urban space. However, contemporary planning theory has shown very little interest in a theoretical approach to this issue. The present paper addresses the issue by integrating it into the development of an analytical theory of urban uses which it cal…
A meta-theoretical approach to the history and theory of semiotics
The object of this paper is the domain of semiotic theories, from "traditional" semiotics to poststructuralism and postmodernism, excluding "semiotizing" approaches such as phenomenology or cultural studies. Thus, it is metatheoretical. It is based on two matrices. The first maps semiotic theories on the basis of the continuity or discontinuity between them. The second displays the logical categories of the relationship between semiotics and Marx…
Semiotics, culture and space
Space, in the environmental sense, holds a rather marginal position in semiotics. We shall try, however, to show in this paper that its importance is greater than thought previously, not only because it may establish one of the main sub-fields of semiotic research, but also because it has repercussions on other semiotic systems and even semiotic theory as such. We start by reviewing the main positions of the Theses of the Tartu-Moscow School and …
The Symbolism of Space in Ethiopia
The present study starts from an Amhara text, Śǝrʿatä mängǝśt, “the first Ethiopian Constitution”, the basic elements of which were already in place in the fourteenth century, and which we analyze using a semiotic methodology. We argue that the concept of classification system is central to an understanding of culture and the semiotic systems constituting it, and we use a specific definition of the semiotic concept of code in order to study the s…
Subjectivism, postmodernism, and social space
The aim of this paper is to review the main aspects of a major super-paradigm running through spatial studies, a paradigm that I have called "subjectivism" and that may also be called the "conceptual" paradigm, with emphasis placed on postmodern approaches to space; it is opposed to another super-paradigm, the "objectivist" or "materialist" paradigm. While the objectivist paradigm approaches space as a material entity, the conceptual paradigm stu…
Introduction: Signification and space
The semiotics of the Vitruvian city
The Vitruvian city in De architectura is founded on an eight-part windrose. Vitruvius describes how to trace the direction of the eight winds astronomically and relates the tracing of the street network of the city to the form of the windrose, but his description is extremely laconic. Ever since the Renaissance, the customary interpretation is that the form of the proposed city is radial-concentric, a pattern that exercised a powerful influence o…
The social semiotics of space: Metaphor, ideology, and political economy
The aim of the present article is the study of the connotative meaning of space, but special theoretical attention is given to the wider theoretical context of such an enterprise. I argue that the whole domain of spatial studies is split between two major and conflicting epistemological paradigms: ‘objectivism,’ which studies ‘space’ as an external object, and ‘subjectivism,’ which approaches space as ‘place,’ that is, as a meaningful, semiotic e…
Monumental urban space and national identity: The early twentieth century new plan of Thessaloniki
Codes, space, and national identity: The 1918 plan for the city of Thessaloniki
Static structuralism versus the dynamics of structure
S'il est communement admis que la semiotique traite de la signification, cette evidence n'est pas suffisante pour guider une analyse concrete de la signifiation. Une telle analyse ne peut en effet pas etre effectuee sans theorie, et il existe differentes approches theoriques en semiotique qui conduisent a differents types d'analyse semiotique et donc a differents resultats analytiques. L'A. se propose ici de passer en revue ces differentes theori…
A global model of communication
Les systemes semiotiques sont des systemes de signification qui interviennent lors de la communication entre les etres humains. L'A. se concentre exclusivement sur le circuit de la communication qui constitue la forme la plus elementaire de la communication. Alors que les composants structuraux de ce circuit apparaissent peu nombreux et simples, l'A. montre, a partir d'une approche plus precise, la complexite et la richessse de ces composants. La…
The semiotic and the social in Prieto’s thought
L'A. analyse un aspect de l'œuvre de Prieto : les relations entre la semiotique et le social. L'analyse prend en consideration trois facettes de cet aspect : la premiere de nature epistemologique, la suivante de nature socio-culturelle, et la derniere de nature socio-semiotique
Meaning and Geography: The Social Conception of the Region in Northern Greece
Postmodernism, Geography, and the Social Semiotics of Space
The nucleus of postmodern philosophy and theory is derived primarily from French neostructuralist writings. The ontological foundation of such literature is the idealist rejection of the possibility of knowing reality and, as a consequence, the enclosure of the subject within the signifying universe, which in turn results in the exaltation of the signifying processes as the only social processes. The same emphasis, but through nonverbal means, is…
The City and the Sign: An Introduction to Urban Semiotics
The City and the Sign: An Introduction to Urban Semiotics
1988). The City and the Sign: An Introduction to Urban Semiotics. Economic Geography: Vol. 64, No. 1, pp. 77-80
Social formation and settlement network in Greece
Analyse sémiotique de l’agglomération européenne précapitaliste
Postmodernism, Geography, and the Social Semiotics of Space
The nucleus of postmodern philosophy and theory is derived primarily from French neostructuralist writings. The ontological foundation of such literature is the idealist rejection of the possibility of knowing reality and, as a consequence, the enclosure of the subject within the signifying universe, which in turn results in the exaltation of the signifying processes as the only social processes. The same emphasis, but through nonverbal means, is…
The City and the Sign: An Introduction to Urban Semiotics
1988). The City and the Sign: An Introduction to Urban Semiotics. Economic Geography: Vol. 64, No. 1, pp. 77-80
Semiotics, culture and space
Space, in the environmental sense, holds a rather marginal position in semiotics. We shall try, however, to show in this paper that its importance is greater than thought previously, not only because it may establish one of the main sub-fields of semiotic research, but also because it has repercussions on other semiotic systems and even semiotic theory as such. We start by reviewing the main positions of the Theses of the Tartu-Moscow School and …
Clarifying Theoretical and Applied Land-Use Planning Concepts
Land-use planning is currently characterised by three weaknesses: a relative lack of systematic analysis of the theoretical and technical aspects of planning, a neglect of methodology and a lack of interest in clarifying key concepts. The present paper attempts to address these issues in a systematic manner on the basis of an explicit epistemological background. The strategy adopted is to focus on ten critical concepts covering the key areas of t…
Monumental urban space and national identity: The early twentieth century new plan of Thessaloniki
L'image mentale de l'agglomération
Lagopoulos A.-Ph. L'image mentale de l'agglomération. In: Communications, 27, 1977. Sémiotique de l'espace, sous la direction de Pierre Boudon. pp. 55-78
The Classification of Urban Uses
The classification of uses is one of the central issues of urban planning, since it is only by referring to groups of uses that we can achieve the simplification and, ultimately, the understanding of urban space. However, contemporary planning theory has shown very little interest in a theoretical approach to this issue. The present paper addresses the issue by integrating it into the development of an analytical theory of urban uses which it cal…
The social semiotics of space: Metaphor, ideology, and political economy
The aim of the present article is the study of the connotative meaning of space, but special theoretical attention is given to the wider theoretical context of such an enterprise. I argue that the whole domain of spatial studies is split between two major and conflicting epistemological paradigms: ‘objectivism,’ which studies ‘space’ as an external object, and ‘subjectivism,’ which approaches space as ‘place,’ that is, as a meaningful, semiotic e…
Static structuralism versus the dynamics of structure
S'il est communement admis que la semiotique traite de la signification, cette evidence n'est pas suffisante pour guider une analyse concrete de la signifiation. Une telle analyse ne peut en effet pas etre effectuee sans theorie, et il existe differentes approches theoriques en semiotique qui conduisent a differents types d'analyse semiotique et donc a differents resultats analytiques. L'A. se propose ici de passer en revue ces differentes theori…
Land-Use Planning Methodology and Middle-Ground Planning Theories
This paper argues that a monolithic land-use planning “grand narrative” is not sufficiently flexible, but that the fragmentation into innumerable “small narratives” goes against any sense of the existence of an established domain of knowledge. Its aim is to explore the epistemological possibility for “middle ground” theories. The methodology adopted for this purpose is to take as a standard reference the methodological components of comprehensive…
A meta-theoretical approach to the history and theory of semiotics
The object of this paper is the domain of semiotic theories, from "traditional" semiotics to poststructuralism and postmodernism, excluding "semiotizing" approaches such as phenomenology or cultural studies. Thus, it is metatheoretical. It is based on two matrices. The first maps semiotic theories on the basis of the continuity or discontinuity between them. The second displays the logical categories of the relationship between semiotics and Marx…
Meaning and Geography: The Social Conception of the Region in Northern Greece
Social formation and settlement network in Greece
Analyse sémiotique de l’agglomération européenne précapitaliste
L'image mentale de l'agglomération
Lagopoulos A.-Ph. L'image mentale de l'agglomération. In: Communications, 27, 1977. Sémiotique de l'espace, sous la direction de Pierre Boudon. pp. 55-78
Analyse sémiotique de l’agglomération européenne précapitaliste
Social formation and settlement network in Greece
The City and the Sign: An Introduction to Urban Semiotics
The City and the Sign: An Introduction to Urban Semiotics
1988). The City and the Sign: An Introduction to Urban Semiotics. Economic Geography: Vol. 64, No. 1, pp. 77-80
Postmodernism, Geography, and the Social Semiotics of Space
The nucleus of postmodern philosophy and theory is derived primarily from French neostructuralist writings. The ontological foundation of such literature is the idealist rejection of the possibility of knowing reality and, as a consequence, the enclosure of the subject within the signifying universe, which in turn results in the exaltation of the signifying processes as the only social processes. The same emphasis, but through nonverbal means, is…
Meaning and Geography: The Social Conception of the Region in Northern Greece
The semiotic and the social in Prieto’s thought
L'A. analyse un aspect de l'œuvre de Prieto : les relations entre la semiotique et le social. L'analyse prend en consideration trois facettes de cet aspect : la premiere de nature epistemologique, la suivante de nature socio-culturelle, et la derniere de nature socio-semiotique
A global model of communication
Les systemes semiotiques sont des systemes de signification qui interviennent lors de la communication entre les etres humains. L'A. se concentre exclusivement sur le circuit de la communication qui constitue la forme la plus elementaire de la communication. Alors que les composants structuraux de ce circuit apparaissent peu nombreux et simples, l'A. montre, a partir d'une approche plus precise, la complexite et la richessse de ces composants. La…
Codes, space, and national identity: The 1918 plan for the city of Thessaloniki
Static structuralism versus the dynamics of structure
S'il est communement admis que la semiotique traite de la signification, cette evidence n'est pas suffisante pour guider une analyse concrete de la signifiation. Une telle analyse ne peut en effet pas etre effectuee sans theorie, et il existe differentes approches theoriques en semiotique qui conduisent a differents types d'analyse semiotique et donc a differents resultats analytiques. L'A. se propose ici de passer en revue ces differentes theori…
Monumental urban space and national identity: The early twentieth century new plan of Thessaloniki
Introduction: Signification and space
The semiotics of the Vitruvian city
The Vitruvian city in De architectura is founded on an eight-part windrose. Vitruvius describes how to trace the direction of the eight winds astronomically and relates the tracing of the street network of the city to the form of the windrose, but his description is extremely laconic. Ever since the Renaissance, the customary interpretation is that the form of the proposed city is radial-concentric, a pattern that exercised a powerful influence o…
The social semiotics of space: Metaphor, ideology, and political economy
The aim of the present article is the study of the connotative meaning of space, but special theoretical attention is given to the wider theoretical context of such an enterprise. I argue that the whole domain of spatial studies is split between two major and conflicting epistemological paradigms: ‘objectivism,’ which studies ‘space’ as an external object, and ‘subjectivism,’ which approaches space as ‘place,’ that is, as a meaningful, semiotic e…
Subjectivism, postmodernism, and social space
The aim of this paper is to review the main aspects of a major super-paradigm running through spatial studies, a paradigm that I have called "subjectivism" and that may also be called the "conceptual" paradigm, with emphasis placed on postmodern approaches to space; it is opposed to another super-paradigm, the "objectivist" or "materialist" paradigm. While the objectivist paradigm approaches space as a material entity, the conceptual paradigm stu…
The Symbolism of Space in Ethiopia
The present study starts from an Amhara text, Śǝrʿatä mängǝśt, “the first Ethiopian Constitution”, the basic elements of which were already in place in the fourteenth century, and which we analyze using a semiotic methodology. We argue that the concept of classification system is central to an understanding of culture and the semiotic systems constituting it, and we use a specific definition of the semiotic concept of code in order to study the s…
Semiotics, culture and space
Space, in the environmental sense, holds a rather marginal position in semiotics. We shall try, however, to show in this paper that its importance is greater than thought previously, not only because it may establish one of the main sub-fields of semiotic research, but also because it has repercussions on other semiotic systems and even semiotic theory as such. We start by reviewing the main positions of the Theses of the Tartu-Moscow School and …
A meta-theoretical approach to the history and theory of semiotics
The object of this paper is the domain of semiotic theories, from "traditional" semiotics to poststructuralism and postmodernism, excluding "semiotizing" approaches such as phenomenology or cultural studies. Thus, it is metatheoretical. It is based on two matrices. The first maps semiotic theories on the basis of the continuity or discontinuity between them. The second displays the logical categories of the relationship between semiotics and Marx…
Introduction: The role of methodology in semiotic theory building
Karin Boklund-Lagopoulou & Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos Punctum, 3(2): 5-32, 2017 DOI: 10.18680/hss.2017.0013 What are the criteria for a well-built scientific theory? Each scientific field incorporates four levels of operations. The first level is that of epistemology, the integration, explicit and conscious or implicit and empirical, of any theory into one of the larger paradigms marking [...]
The Classification of Urban Uses
The classification of uses is one of the central issues of urban planning, since it is only by referring to groups of uses that we can achieve the simplification and, ultimately, the understanding of urban space. However, contemporary planning theory has shown very little interest in a theoretical approach to this issue. The present paper addresses the issue by integrating it into the development of an analytical theory of urban uses which it cal…
Land-Use Planning Methodology and Middle-Ground Planning Theories
This paper argues that a monolithic land-use planning “grand narrative” is not sufficiently flexible, but that the fragmentation into innumerable “small narratives” goes against any sense of the existence of an established domain of knowledge. Its aim is to explore the epistemological possibility for “middle ground” theories. The methodology adopted for this purpose is to take as a standard reference the methodological components of comprehensive…
Clarifying Theoretical and Applied Land-Use Planning Concepts
Land-use planning is currently characterised by three weaknesses: a relative lack of systematic analysis of the theoretical and technical aspects of planning, a neglect of methodology and a lack of interest in clarifying key concepts. The present paper attempts to address these issues in a systematic manner on the basis of an explicit epistemological background. The strategy adopted is to focus on ten critical concepts covering the key areas of t…
The cultural transformation of the proprioceptive senses
The research question of the present paper is what relation exists between biology and cultural semiosis and I examine as a token of this question the relation between the physiological senses of proprioception and the cultural concepts corresponding to them. While the origins of semiosis are biological, the origin of proprioceptive concepts is debated. Against the biological view that the proprioceptive senses define directly the concepts corres…
Theory and Methodology of Semiotics: The Tradition of Ferdinand de Saussure
The book is an in-depth presentation of the European branch of semiotic theory, originating in the work of Ferdinand de Saussure. It has four parts: a historical introduction, the analysis of langue, narrative theory and communication theory. Part I briefly presents all the semiotic schools and their main points of reference. Although this material is accessible in many other Anglophone publications, the presentation is marked by specific choices…
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