Dan Scorpio Language Page This index page, which has been significantly restructured, leads to several articles discussing language and patterning. Several practical experiments are offered, which may be exercised as forms of enhancing awareness or meditation should the reader so desire, as well as examples of various forms of novel form, English language restructuring and allegorical ...

Learn about Samoan and Polynesian culture, psychological anthropology and semiotics as you follow a doctoral candidate on her fieldwork in American Samoa. Rated G ...

A Chronotope of Revolution: The Palindrome from the Perspective of Cultural Semiotics By Erika Greber (Univ. of Munich / UC Irvine) Take the word ropot , Cincinnatus' brother-in-law, the wit, was saying to him, and read it backwards. Eh Comes out funny, doesn't it - Voz'mi-ka slovo ropot, - govoril Cincinnatu ego shurin, ostriak, -- I prochti obratno. A Smeshno poluchaetsia Vladimir Nabokov, ...

This article has been published in Sign Systems Studies vol. 27, pp. 9-23 (1999). Cultural semiotics and culture Peeter Torop At the end of 1998, in Tartu University, there was the celebration of the 25th anniversary of Theses on the Semiotic Study of Cultures that was first published in 1973, both in Russian and English. Its title contains a specification: As Applied to Slavic Texts (Eng ...