Juri Lotman on proper name
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12636820 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ülle Pärli (University of Tartu, corresponding author), Eleonora Rudakovskaja (University of Tartu) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 577-591 |
| Publication date | 2002-12-31 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sign Systems Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1406-4243 • E-ISSN: 1736-7409 |
| Publisher | University of Tartu (PUBLISHER • EE) |
| DOI | 10.12697/sss.2002.30.2.13 |
| OpenAlex | W76595531 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
The article treats the concept of proper name in Juri Lotman’s semiotics, taking into account also studies in the same field by other authors of the Tartu-Moscow school (V. Ivanov, B. Ogibenin, V. Toporov, B. Uspenski). Focus is laid at three sub-topics: name and myth, name and text, name and artistic creation. One of the sources of treating proper name for both the program article by J. Lotman and B. Uspenski (“Myth — Name — Culture”), and works by several other semioticians of the Tartu–Moscow school is confidence in the connection between proper name and mythical (a-semiotic) thought: semiosis equals here with nomination. Proper name plurality, different re-namings affirm the continuing importance of mythical thinking in later culture. Proper names (such as personal names, place names) belong, in addition to natural language, also into a certain individual system, forming thus an interlinguistic layer located on the boundary of language. J. Lotman stresses that art has a specific power of uniting general and proper name (proper name characterized here by individuality, explosiveness). An artistic work is even doubly of proper name character: both the act of creation and its reception are by nature individual and unrepeated. In the opinion of the authors the treatment of proper name by the Tartu-Moscow school contains fruitful and promising standpoints for the analysis of contemporary culture that, however, have been applied unjustifiably little
Art · Character (mathematics · Linguistics · Literature · Mythology · Onomastics · Proper noun · Semiosis · Semiotics · Sociology · Totem · Anthropology · Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication · Language, Communication, and Linguistic Studies · Mathematics · Philosophy · Translation Studies and Practices
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
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| Citation span | 2011 - 2022 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |