Semiotics of textscapes and cultures
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4474247 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Stockinger (0000-0003-1037-2118, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) , 75013 Paris , France, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 2017 |
| Issue | 219 |
| Pages | 543-561 |
| Publication date | 2017-11-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Semiotica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-1998 • E-ISSN: 1613-3692 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/sem-2017-0083 |
| OpenAlex | W2593134257 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 9 |
This article presents a general outline of a theoretical and methodological framework for analyzing textscapes. Textscapes are signifying perceptual surfaces that form the interface with the meaning universe of a semiotic eco-system (of, for instance, the life-world of a social actor such as a person, a social group, a community, etc.). In this sense, textscape descriptions and comparisons are of central importance for a semiotics of cultures understood as a text- or discourse-based approach to the description of meaning systems that possess a constitutive and normative status for a semiotic eco-system. The description of such meaning configurations composing the doxa (visions, beliefs, values and norms, know-how, etc.) of a social actor has to rely on a structured approach for dealing adequately with textscapes as the principal data to be studied. Research tasks include the identification of relevant textscapes, the techniques for collecting and conserving them, the analysis of corpora of textscapes or the experimentation with textscapes. In order to illustrate our purpose, we will study two examples of textscapes in a broad sense, understood as signifying 3D-surfaces of the lifeworld of social actors: a typical European open market in Vienna and a middle-class European kitchen. A third example in Hong Kong studies a modern urban communicational textscape
Epistemology · Linguistics · Semiotics · Semiotics of culture · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Philosophy · Translation Studies and Practices
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| Citations per year | 0,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |