Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Linguistics - Semantics

Im Blickpunkt der Arbeit steht das Textsortenspektrum von Fachzeitschriften der Medizin, um Veranderungen im fachinternen Wissenstransfer festzustellen. Im Besonderen werden bewusste Gestaltungsprozesse und Prasentationsformen nachvollzogen, sodass Traditionen und Neuerungen in der deutschen Wissenschaftskultur der Fachzeitschriften, die als Leitgattung der Wissenschaft angesehen werden, ausfindig gemacht werden konnen.
Als Fallbeispiel dienen drei medizinische Fachzeitschriften, insgesamt 1136 Exemplare, deren Texte uber einen Zeitraum von 30 Jahren hinsichtlich ihrer Veranderungen...

This book is the study of all codes of life with the standard methods of science. The genetic code and the codes of culture have been known for a long time and represent the historical foundation of this book. What is really new in this field is the study of all codes that came after the genetic code and before the codes of culture. The existence of these organic codes, however, is not only a major experimental fact. It is one of those facts that have extraordinary theoretical implications. The first is that most events of macroevolution were associated with the origin of new...

Sprachliche Auerungen, seien es einzelne Worter oder Texte, werden in der Regel intuitiv verstanden und hinsichtlich des Verstandnisses herrscht in der Regel weitgehender Konsens. Warum so und nicht anders interpretiert wird, kann dabei in den seltensten Fallen zufriedenstellend angegeben werden. Dieses handbuchartige Kompendium erklart Semantik auf allen systematischen Rangen von der Morphem- bis zur Diskursebene nach einem einzigen Grundprinzip - sprachliche Zeichen verweisen auf andere sprachliche Zeichen - und leitet daraus ein komplexes Regelwerk ab, das der Interpretation...

Scientific Discourse examines the nature of scientific inquiry in the primary school classroom to show how this interacts with early literacy. Through an examination of the texts used and produced by pupils studying science the author shows how what is at work in this context of scientific discourse is actually multiliteracy. The teacher aids the pupils' learning using different forms of literacy spread across the spoken word, written text, visual text and physical action. The result of this diverse approach is a growth not only in scientific knowledge, but basic literacy....

Following the heyday of Levi-Straussian structuralism in the 1970s-80s, little attention has been paid by scholars of religion to semiotics. Semiotics of Religion reassesses key semiotic theories in the light of religious data. Yelle examines the semiotics of religion from structural and historical perspectives, drawing on Peircean linguistic anthropology, Jakobsonian poetics, comparative religion and several theological traditions. This book pays particular attention to the transformation of religious symbolism under modernization and the rise of a culture of the printed book....

Building on a range of disciplines - from biology and anthropology to philosophy and linguistics - this book draws on the expertise of leading names in the study of organic, mental and cultural codes brought together by the emerging discipline of biosemiotics.

The book's 18 chapters present a range of experimental evidence which suggests that the genetic code was only the first in a long series of organic codes, and that it has been the appearance of new codes - organic, mental and cultural - that paved the way for the major transitions in the history of life.

While the...

This historical semantic study examines Otto von Bismarck's use of the term Volk ('people') and its synonyms such as Nation or Stamm ('tribe'). It shows that the expressions are multiply polysemous and that individual meanings can be bundled together into concepts (state community, cultural community etc.). Bismarck employs certain repetitive patterns of argument and an 'open system' of expressions with Volk to prosecute or legitimise political aims depending on the time, situation, text-type and addressees.