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by <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia">bakuvia</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/technology"  title="technology">technology</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/linguistics"  title="linguistics">linguistics</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/communication"  title="communication">communication</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/discourse"  title="discourse">discourse</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/multimodality"  title="multimodality">multimodality</a><br/><br/><a href="http://www.dpbolvw.net/click-1907720-10294146" target="_blank" >
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia">bakuvia</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/technology"  title="technology">technology</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/culture"  title="culture">culture</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/semiotics"  title="semiotics">semiotics</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/postmodernism"  title="postmodernism">postmodernism</a>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2006 08:13:28 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_22234_3629</guid><dc:creator>bakuvia</dc:creator><category>technology</category><category>culture</category><category>semiotics</category><category>postmodernism</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/bakuvia</link><description><![CDATA[Interesting study by Chomsky in which he argues that &quot;there is no coherent notion of &#39;language&#39; external to the human mind, and that the study of language should take as its focus the mental construct which constitutes our knowledge of language.&quot;
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia">bakuvia</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/linguistics"  title="linguistics">linguistics</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/cognition"  title="cognition">cognition</a>]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2005 11:02:24 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_11547_3629</guid><dc:creator>bakuvia</dc:creator><category>linguistics</category><category>cognition</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Society of Mind]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/bakuvia</link><description><![CDATA[A fun, easy to read book (lots of pictures and broken up text) that looks at cognition, the brain, theories of mind and memory, of space and meaning, perception, context and ambiguities, framing, expression, mental models, etc.
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia">bakuvia</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/mind"  title="mind">mind</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/space"  title="space">space</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/communication"  title="communication">communication</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/cognition"  title="cognition">cognition</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/memory"  title="memory">memory</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/meaning"  title="meaning">meaning</a>]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2005 10:58:45 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_11546_3629</guid><dc:creator>bakuvia</dc:creator><category>mind</category><category>space</category><category>communication</category><category>cognition</category><category>memory</category><category>meaning</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Culture, Language, and Personality: Selected Essays]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/bakuvia</link><description><![CDATA[A look at culture through the eyes of Sapir - via linguistics, psychology and cultural anthropology. A selection of essays originally published in 1949. Interesting in terms of his view of language: &quot;Language is a cultural or social product and must be understood as such.&quot;
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia">bakuvia</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/culture"  title="culture">culture</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/linguistics"  title="linguistics">linguistics</a>]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2005 10:50:03 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_11544_3629</guid><dc:creator>bakuvia</dc:creator><category>culture</category><category>linguistics</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language, meaning, and context]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/bakuvia</link><description><![CDATA[A review of the meaning - conditional semantics, linguistics and the relationship of semantics to pragmatics. Explores the concept of langauge as an &#39;interlocking system&#39; in which each linguistic unit is dependent on the others not merely on one but on a number of levels. [Interesting in terms of Lotman and in terms of multimodality in general terms].
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia">bakuvia</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/linguistics"  title="linguistics">linguistics</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/modality"  title="modality">modality</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/modelling"  title="modelling">modelling</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/semantics"  title="semantics">semantics</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/pragmatics"  title="pragmatics">pragmatics</a>]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2005 10:42:24 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_11542_3629</guid><dc:creator>bakuvia</dc:creator><category>linguistics</category><category>modality</category><category>modelling</category><category>semantics</category><category>pragmatics</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Theory of Semiotics]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/bakuvia</link><description><![CDATA[An excellent overview of the field of semiotics, its definitions, its areas of focus, its limits, etc. Useful for any student of semiotics. I&#39;m looking forward to this one.
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia">bakuvia</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/linguistics"  title="linguistics">linguistics</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/semiotics"  title="semiotics">semiotics</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/communication"  title="communication">communication</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/semiology"  title="semiology">semiology</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/semantics"  title="semantics">semantics</a>]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2005 10:38:19 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_11541_3629</guid><dc:creator>bakuvia</dc:creator><category>linguistics</category><category>semiotics</category><category>communication</category><category>semiology</category><category>semantics</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Semantics]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/bakuvia</link><description><![CDATA[Semantics presented in the light of linguistics, communication and concept-manipulation. To what extent can the study of language be used to contribute to the study of meaning? An interesting general, but quite extensive, overview of semantics. A good place to start for the beginner.
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia">bakuvia</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/linguistics"  title="linguistics">linguistics</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/communication"  title="communication">communication</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/meaning"  title="meaning">meaning</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/semantics"  title="semantics">semantics</a>]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2005 10:31:36 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_11539_3629</guid><dc:creator>bakuvia</dc:creator><category>linguistics</category><category>communication</category><category>meaning</category><category>semantics</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bakhtin and Cultural Theory]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/bakuvia</link><description><![CDATA[An overview of Bakhtin studies in the form of collected essays, with a particular focus on culture and dialogism. Also contains a new biographical essay on Bakhtin and the Bakhtin circle.
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia">bakuvia</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/culture"  title="culture">culture</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/discourse"  title="discourse">discourse</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/dialogism"  title="dialogism">dialogism</a>]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2005 10:24:14 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_11537_3629</guid><dc:creator>bakuvia</dc:creator><category>culture</category><category>discourse</category><category>dialogism</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading Cultures]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/bakuvia</link><description><![CDATA[Reading and understanding cultural texts... a wide variety. Mostly I&#39;m interested in the chapter on Modernism and one on Cybernetic Aesthetics, Hypertext and Virtual Public Space.
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia">bakuvia</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/culture"  title="culture">culture</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/space"  title="space">space</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/cybernetics"  title="cybernetics">cybernetics</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/virtuality"  title="virtuality">virtuality</a>]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2005 10:04:19 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_11532_3629</guid><dc:creator>bakuvia</dc:creator><category>culture</category><category>space</category><category>cybernetics</category><category>virtuality</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Understanding Changes in Time: The Development of Diachronic Thinking in 7-To 12-Year Old Children]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/bakuvia</link><description><![CDATA[Research report on thinking and diachrony (described as &#39;the capacity to represent transformations over time&#39;). Models of thinking.
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia">bakuvia</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/memory"  title="memory">memory</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/diachrony"  title="diachrony">diachrony</a>]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2005 17:38:20 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_10650_3629</guid><dc:creator>bakuvia</dc:creator><category>memory</category><category>diachrony</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Semiosis, Semiotics and the History of Culture: In Honorem Georgii Lotman]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/bakuvia</link><description><![CDATA[A collection of papers in various languages published by the University of Michigan in 1984 as a tribute to the work of Yuri Lotman (founder of the Tartu School of Semiotics) on his 60th birthday. (No idea, then, why they call him Georgii on the Frontispiece).
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia">bakuvia</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/semiotics"  title="semiotics">semiotics</a>]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2005 17:16:03 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_10635_3629</guid><dc:creator>bakuvia</dc:creator><category>semiotics</category></item></channel></rss>
