Categorizes attempts to account for how viewers garner meanings from motion pictures as either semiotic, realist, or conventionalist. Proposes an alternative explanation based on J. J. Gibson's ecological theory of perception. Offers his concept of "affordances" as the key to an explanation of how meanings in motion pictures are…

Argues that the contention that media texts have no meaning is problematic. Repositions the concept of "text" within the context of general semiotic theory. Uses an approach culled from literary, film, and communication perspectives to reanalyze canonical research on television texts. Proposes a new research agenda. (PRA)

Reflections on Tobin's "Semiotics and Linguistics" and Shaumyan's "Semiotic Theory of Language" are offered. (23 references) (LB)

A semiotic approach explains why native speakers use alternative ways to express the same linguistic or communicative function without being aware of why they choose one form over the other. The explanation uncovers an aspect of language awareness not previously explored in traditional word and sentence-oriented approaches. (19 references)…

Summarizes the work of Marcel Danesi who, drawing on the fields of semiotics and neuro-psycholinguistics, has developed an excellent text for the teaching of Italian ("Adesso: A Functional Approach to Italian"). This text, along with his numerous manuals and articles on language teaching, documents his contribution to the field of…

Argues that structural and poststructural notions of language, as they form the basis of critical theory, are alien to the assumptions of communication theory. Posits that poststructuralists confuse sounds with signifiers, and separate language from intention, thus making their approach irrelevant to communication. (RDS)

Focuses on the utility of ideology in understanding educational practice. Comprehending the relationship between appearances and reality is facilitated by semiotics--the study of symbols and signs. Using field study data from three schools, ideology is described as socially constructed and based partially on policymakers' connections to a larger…

Argues that Rene Magritte's experiments with words and images are preceded by other experiments with his surrealist friends in Brussels. States that the surrealists' failure to adequately represent women causes Magritte to treat both images and words as mere representations, subject to an equally radical splitting from the "real" thing…

States that the painted words in Jasper Johns' art act in two different capacities: concealed words partake in the artist's interrogation of visual perception; and visible painted words question classical representation. Argues that words are Johns' means of critiquing modernism. (RS)

Asserts that it is as historical creatures that humans have the power of choice; language--the means of naming and renaming, or representing and articulating the options--provides the saving image of transformation. Argues that consciousness of the power of language liberates the imagination, the active mind with its power of memory and…

Explores a semiotic consideration of the differences between the aesthetic philosophy and David Elliot's praxial philosophy of music education. Explains Alfred Lang's semiotic theory in detail as a means to examining the two theories. Concludes that there is neither a "significant difference" between the philosophies nor a new philosophy in music…

Includes "The Origins of Organizational Development"; "Restructuring Bureaucracy"; "The Emergence of Organizational Culture and Symbolic Intercourse"; "Organizational Development and the Art of Connoisseurship"; "Managing Change and Organizational Development"; "Skills, Values, or Impression…

Investigates ways in which students use signs and endow them with meaning in their very first encounter with the algebraic generalization of patterns. Provides accounts of students' emergent algebraic thinking. Uses ethnographic qualitative methodology supported by historic epistemological research. Focuses on a discussion held by a small group of…

Examines an area of sociolinguistic methodology that thus far has received relatively little theoretical attention: the composition and analysis of orthographic transcriptions of non-standard speech. Addresses the following aspects: linguistic/semiotic properties of orthographic transcription, and the different functions of orthographic writing…

Discusses a selection of ideas and writings by Michael Foucault into competition with those of Jacques Derrida. Consisted of a single game of references for which the references were those cited in a sample of master's theses produced recently at Queen's University. Examined master's dissertations, because these are the usual means by which…