Publisher: Estonian Semiotics Association, 2005

Editors: Elin Sütiste and Silvi Salupere

The articles in the present volume deal with various topics, including literature and film as well as literature in film, transformation of cultural identities, media and political communication, visual culture, traditional culture. The collection also features articles on biosemiotics and theoretical semiotics.

Contents:

Peeter Torop Text in intersemiotic space [abstract]
Mihhail Lotman Poetry as art of war [abstract]
Marina Grishakova On some semiotic models in film and fiction: mirrors and doubles [abstract]
Berk Vaher Exploiting and expanding exotica: George Psalmanazar and his Formosa [abstract]
Urve Eslas The language of the Other: dialogue without communication [abstract]
Andreas Ventsel The construction of the concept of we in political rhetoric of Soviet Estonia in 1940-1941 [abstract]
Andres Kõnno Towards culture-oriented semiotics of media [abstract]
Timo Maran On mimicry in the context of communication between species [abstract]
Dario Martinelli Introducing anthropological zoosemiotics: a semiotic approach to human-other animal relationship [abstract]
Auli Kütt Behavioural norms related to sacred trees and groves of native Estonians [abstract]
Kristi Jõeste Kihnu skirt as an object of semiotics [abstract]
Kaie Kotov Culture, identity and self-description [abstract]
Tiit Remm On representing the city on postcards [abstract]
Jelena Grigorjeva Post-soviet persuasion: 10 years of advertising [abstract]

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