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DOI	10.12697/SSS.2014.42.4.02
	Semiotics, culture and space
	Lagopoulos, Alexandros Ph; Boklund-Lagopoulou, Karin
通讯作者	Lagopoulos, AP (corresponding author), Aristotle Univ Thessaloniki, Sch Architecture, Thessaloniki 54124, Greece.
来源期刊	SIGN SYSTEMS STUDIES
ISSN	1406-4243
EISSN	1736-7409
出版年	2014
卷号	42 期号:4 页码:435-486
英文摘要	Space, in the environmental sense, holds a rather marginal position in semiotics. We shall try, however, to show in this paper that its importance is greater than thought previously, not only because it may establish one of the main sub-fields of semiotic research, but also because it has repercussions on other semiotic systems and even semiotic theory as such. We start by reviewing the main positions of the Theses of the Tartu-Moscow School and compare them to Lotman's concept of the semiosphere. We conclude that a sociologically sound framework for culture is missing and try to demonstrate that culture is not the only factor composing a society, but there also exists a concept of a material, extra-semiotic society. This framework is systematically developed in relation to geographical space in our second section. We examine the place of space in semiotics according to two different axes of analysis. The first axis, discussed in our third section, corresponds to the semiotics of (geographical) space. We approach this field from two different perspectives. The first perspective is the direct study of urban space as a text, that is, it is focused on space-as-text. Three case studies are discussed, all drawn from pre-capitalist societies: the semiotic urban model in ancient Greece, the Ethiopian military camp and the spatial organization of the traditional Libyan oases. To the second perspective corresponds the semiotic study of the geographical spaces constructed by literary texts, that is, space-in-text. Here, we discuss two case studies: the ideal Platonic city and the medieval Arthurian courtly romances. These analyses are followed by an overview of the semiotics of space in pre-capitalist societies, to which we compare Lotman's views. The second axis, discussed in our fourth section, concerns the importance of space for semiotic theory. We show that space can serve as a tool for the analysis of texts from other semiotic systems and focus on the use of space by different spatial metalanguages.
英文关键词	semiotics of space anthropology of space Tartu-Moscow School Juri Lotman spatial metalanguage
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	DOAJ Gold
收录类别	AHCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000350193300002
WOS类目	Humanities, Multidisciplinary
WOS研究方向	Arts & Humanities - Other Topics
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/361340
作者单位	[Lagopoulos, Alexandros Ph] Aristotle Univ Thessaloniki, Sch Architecture, Thessaloniki 54124, Greece; [Boklund-Lagopoulou, Karin] Aristotle Univ Thessaloniki, Sch English, Thessaloniki 54124, Greece
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Lagopoulos, Alexandros Ph,Boklund-Lagopoulou, Karin. Semiotics, culture and space[J],2014,42(4):435-486.
APA	Lagopoulos, Alexandros Ph,&Boklund-Lagopoulou, Karin.(2014).Semiotics, culture and space.SIGN SYSTEMS STUDIES,42(4),435-486.
MLA	Lagopoulos, Alexandros Ph,et al."Semiotics, culture and space".SIGN SYSTEMS STUDIES 42.4(2014):435-486.