Semiotika
type: channel
description: Founded in 1994 and dedicated to analysing different issues in semiotics and application of semiotic access in the analysis of cultural discourses.
publisher: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla / Vilnius University Press
language: en
publication name: Semiotika
issn: 1392-0219
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items: Pratarmė Literatūros organonas
items: Bodily Self-Reflection in Sigitas Parulskis’s Naked Clothes
items: The Semiotic Monad as a Prefiguration of the Window: Trajectories of Theoretical Imagi­nation in Juri Lotman’s Semiotics of Culture
items: Psychoanalysis and Literature: The Problem of the Discursive Subject
items: Emotion, Law, and the Novel
items: Apie pyktį
items: Apie prasmę II
items: Apie poetinio diskurso teoriją
items: Foreword. Organon of Literature
items: Bibliographical Data
items: Foreword
items: Pratarmė
items: Editorial Board and Table of Contents
items: In Memoriam Professor Kęstutis Nastopka (1940–2024)
items: Régimes d’espace
items: A Geography of the Moving Image
items: Récits d’espace
items: The City in a Different Way: Space in the Essay “Rational Decisions” by Giedra Radvilavičiūtė
items: Vilnius Cinematic Spaces: Eitvydas Doškus’ Dialogue with Almantas Grikevičius in Once Upon a Vilnius
items: Israeli Demonstration Posters: Spatial Semiotics of Silence
items: Towards a Chronotopical Analysis of Urban Squares
items: Corporeal Spaces in L. S. Černiauskaitė’s “The Jasmin Chamber”
items: Dramatic Space: Translating Euripides’ Medea into Lithuanian, Latvian, and Estonian
items: Harsh Noise Wall: Transformation of Sound and Space
items: Gražiausia Don Žuano meilė
items: Table of Contents
items: Heterotopic Moments of Being in Clarice Lispector’s The Besieged City
items: Gamta ir kultūra Merimee "Lokyje". Iš prancūzų kalbos vertė Kęstutis Nastopka
items: Pramanas ar portretas? Semiotinis Prospero Merimee „Lokio" skaitymas
items: Lokys. Iš prancūzų kalbos vertė Ramutė Ramunienė

Pratarmė Literatūros organonas
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description: -
subject: Front Matter
  topic: section
subject: -
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creator: Loreta Mačianskaitė
creator: Jurgita Katkuvienė
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-05-22
publication date: 2025-05-22
starting page: VIII
ending page: XII
doi: 10.15388/Semiotika.2025.13

Bodily Self-Reflection in Sigitas Parulskis’s Naked Clothes
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description: <span lang="en-US" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Examining corporeality in Parulskis’s <em class="italikas" lang="en-US" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Naked Clothes<span lang="en-US" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">,<em class="italikas" lang="en-US" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"> <span lang="en-US" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-si…
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: S. Parulskis
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subject: body parts
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subject: corporeality
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subject: Naked Clothes
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subject: symbolic castration
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creator: Izabelė Skikaitė
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-05-21
publication date: 2025-05-21
starting page: 156
ending page: 186
doi: 10.15388/Semiotika.2025.7

The Semiotic Monad as a Prefiguration of the Window: Trajectories of Theoretical Imagi­nation in Juri Lotman’s Semiotics of Culture
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description: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">The article addresses the problem of whether the figurative expressions appearing unexpectedly in Juri Lotman’s metalanguage should be seen as integral to his theoretical system rather than incidental. To explore this issue, the study examines two seemingly unrelated descriptions of meaning mechanisms from Lotman’s late period – the semiotic monad (1989) and the window (1992) – which are relatively minor, brief, and appear in his texts from different years. In seeking a meaningful connection between these descriptions, the article aims to conceptualize the semiotic monad from the perspective of figurativity, interpreting its “entrance” and “exit” mechanisms as a prefiguration of the window. The interpretation proceeds in three steps: (1) presenting the structure of the semiotic monad; (2) clarifying the connection between the aforementioned descriptions and situating it within the broader context of Lotman’s spatial mode of thought; (3) discussing how the interpretation of the semiotic monad engages with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s philosophical concept of the “windowless” monad. The study reveals a trajectory of Lotman’s theoretical imagination that moves from abstract reflection on complex semiotic processes toward a more tangible and visually articulated form.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Lotman
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subject: Leibniz
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subject: monad
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subject: window
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subject: figure
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subject: semiotics of culture
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subject: metalanguage
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creator: Ieva Šileikaitė
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-05-21
publication date: 2025-05-21
starting page: 131
ending page: 155
doi: 10.15388/Semiotika.2025.6

Psychoanalysis and Literature: The Problem of the Discursive Subject
type: item
description: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">The article examines the concept of the discursive subject in psychoanalytic interpretation of literature. The relevance of the problem is grounded in two contradictory factors: (i) the tendency of classical psychoanalytic literary criticism to focus on the author or the reader as a substitute for the patient, and (ii) the formalist and structuralist assumption that discourse becomes a work of art only when it is enclosed and detached from empirical reality, including both the creator and the perceiver. This situation encourages testing the potential of the psychoanalytic perspective to account for this closure, which, according to Gérard Genette’s system of poetic theory, is associated with the fictionality of the text. For this purpose, the perspectives of three classics of psychoanalysis – Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein and Jacques Lacan – are used to present three approaches to the same work – Giedra Radvilavičiūtė’s essay “Šiąnakt aš miegosiu prie sienos“ (literal translation: “Tonight I Will Sleep by the Wall”). The study concludes that Lacan’s concepts surpass the methodological tools of other theorists in that they enable and even encourage the separation of the discursive subject from the empirical author. And although this is based on a different concept of reality than the one that traditionally figures in studies of essays, documentary literature, and so-called autofiction, it calls for not a suspension, but a new way to raise and resolve the question of the boundary b…
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: psychoanalysis
  topic: keywords
subject: literature
  topic: keywords
subject: subject
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subject: fiction
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subject: reality
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creator: Augustas Sireikis
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-05-21
publication date: 2025-05-21
starting page: 104
ending page: 130
doi: 10.15388/Semiotika.2025.5

Emotion, Law, and the Novel
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description: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">“From emotion to law”, or “From emotional discourse to legal discourse”, the semiotic approach, enriched by its theory of passions, allows us to trace the path that leads from one to the other. Against the backdrop of the current ecological crisis, I first analyse the gradual transformation of the passionate and militant discourse of anger (Greta Thunberg) into an institutionalised discourse, the ultimate form of which is achieved in the legal document (the <em class="italikas" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Paris Climate Agreement<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">, 2015). In a second part, I extend the discussion to a more global re…
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: law
  topic: keywords
subject: semiotics
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subject: discourse
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subject: emotion
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subject: passion
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creator: Denis Bertrand
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-05-21
publication date: 2025-05-21
starting page: 78
ending page: 103
doi: 10.15388/Semiotika.2025.4

Apie pyktį
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description: -
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: -
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creator: Algirdas Julius Greimas
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-05-21
publication date: 2025-05-21
starting page: 54
ending page: 77
doi: 10.15388/Semiotika.2025.3

Apie prasmę II
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description: -
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: -
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creator: Algirdas Julius Greimas
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-05-21
publication date: 2025-05-21
starting page: 40
ending page: 53
doi: 10.15388/Semiotika.2025.2

Apie poetinio diskurso teoriją
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description: -
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: -
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creator: Algirdas Julius Greimas
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-05-21
publication date: 2025-05-21
starting page: 8
ending page: 39

Foreword. Organon of Literature
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description: -
subject: Front Matter
  topic: section
subject: -
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creator: Loreta Mačianskaitė
creator: Jurgita Katkuvienė
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-05-21
publication date: 2025-05-21
starting page: XIII
ending page: XVII
doi: 10.15388/Semiotika.2025.14

Bibliographical Data
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description: -
subject: Back Matter
  topic: section
subject: -
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creator: Irina Melnikova
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 334
ending page: 334

Foreword
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description: -
subject: Front Matter
  topic: section
subject: -
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creator: Inga Vidugirytė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: XV
ending page: XXI
doi: 10.15388/Semiotika.2024.15

Pratarmė
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description: -
subject: Front Matter
  topic: section
subject: -
  topic: keywords
creator: Inga Vidugirytė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: VIII
ending page: XIV
doi: 10.15388/Semiotika.2024.14

Editorial Board and Table of Contents
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description: -
subject: Front Matter
  topic: section
subject: -
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creator: Irina Melnikova
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: I
ending page: VII

In Memoriam Professor Kęstutis Nastopka (1940–2024)
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description: -
subject: Other
  topic: section
subject: -
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creator: Dalia Satkauskytė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 332
ending page: 333
doi: 10.15388/Semiotika.2024.13

Régimes d’espace
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description: -
subject: Translations
  topic: section
subject: -
  topic: keywords
creator: Eric Landowski
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 300
ending page: 331
doi: 10.15388/Semiotika.2024.12

A Geography of the Moving Image
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description: -
subject: Translations
  topic: section
subject: -
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creator: Giuliana Bruno
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 272
ending page: 299
doi: 10.15388/Semiotika.2024.11

Récits d’espace
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description: -
subject: Translations
  topic: section
subject: -
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creator: Michel de Certeau
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 250
ending page: 271
doi: 10.15388/Semiotika.2024.10

The City in a Different Way: Space in the Essay “Rational Decisions” by Giedra Radvilavičiūtė
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description: The article deals with the writing/production of space in Giedra Radvilavičiūtė’s essay “Rational Decisions”. In contemporary (literary) geography, the writing of space presupposes that space is perceived not as an empty container/stage where the action takes place, but as the space of relationships and networks of human and non-human characters which create the relational space or space as a place-event. The understanding of relational space comes from human geography, which also proposes a new ontology of the city, as outlined in Cities: Reimagining the Urban (2002) by Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift. According to these authors, what continously happens in a city is life, made up of countless human and non-human activities, communication, networks and communities. One form of community, they argue, is everyday life itself, in which unpredictable human connections and their effects are realised. The paper argues that, in “Rational Decisions”, the narration creates a new mode of Lithuanian urban literature, in which urban space is written / produced as a place-as-event of everyday life. The concept of ‘domestic disorder’ used in this essay could be one of the concepts sought by the new urban theory to bring research closer to the reality of the contemporary city.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: city in literature
  topic: keywords
subject: relational space
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subject: writing of space
  topic: keywords
subject: city networks
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subject: place-event
  topic: keywords
creator: Inga Vidugirytė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 222
ending page: 249
doi: 10.15388/Semiotika.2024.9

Vilnius Cinematic Spaces: Eitvydas Doškus’ Dialogue with Almantas Grikevičius in Once Upon a Vilnius
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description: This article compares two works of poetic documentary that depict Vilnius: Almantas Grikevičius’ Time Passes Through the City (1966) and Eitvydas Doškus’ Once Upon A Vilnius (2022). Employing a geocritical approach, the analysis investigates the interplay between the city and its cinematic representations. It highlights the thematic and aesthetic dialogue between the two films, contrasting Grikevičius’ modernist vision of Vilnius as a convergence of history and modernity with Doškus’ portrayal of a city in constant evolution, blending local heritage with global influences. The article aims to reveal the historically shifting strategies of Vilnius’ representation and to analyse the city’s resulting imagery and its impact. It argues that both films not only document transformations in Vilnius but also craft a distinctive perception of the city as a dynamic, intertextual, and intermedial space.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Vilnius representation
  topic: keywords
subject: poetic documentary
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subject: geocriticism
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subject: urban identity
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subject: urban space
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creator: Gintarė Bidlauskienė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-27
publication date: 2024-12-27
starting page: 198
ending page: 221
doi: 10.15388/Semiotika.2024.8

Israeli Demonstration Posters: Spatial Semiotics of Silence
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description: Israel’s coalition effort (2023) to introduce a “(judicial) reform” was perceived by many Israelis as endangering Israel’s standing as a democratic state. The salience of silence as a theme and a form in the posters exhibited in the demonstrations supporting and opposing the coalition’s move triggered the examination of the semiotic roles played by silence in those posters and whether this use of silence differed by reform support/opposition. Two-hundred and twenty posters partaking in the demonstrations’ linguistic landscape were examined. Implementing an algorithm based on Ephratt’s (2022) model for identifying different types of silences revealed that fifty six of the posters alluded to one of the six categories of silence (stillness, symptomatic silences, silencing, pauses, the unsaid or verbal silence). These posters served as the data for a qualitative-thematic methodology, iteratively abstracting semiotic roles. Silences and silencing reoccurred as a theme concerning political discourse, particularly the matter of voice. The need for parsimonious use of crucial signantia on posters transformed into a semiotic strategy in which leaving out expected signantia served iconically to communicate absence, conatively activate the observers or express consent, metalinguistically convey the shortage of words, legally circumvent possible charges and create a hiatus that provides soothing qualities, enhancing in-group and out-group tolerance. The differing use of silence in the posters, depending on reform support/opposition, is explained in terms of horror vacui and motivation. Finally, the individual posters, as material texts, did not appear nor function in isolation: they took an active part in producing the demonstrations’ spatial semiotics.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: judicial crisis
  topic: keywords
subject: demonstration posters
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subject: political discourse
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subject: verbal silence
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subject: linguistic landscape
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subject: horror vacui
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creator: Michal Ornan-Ephratt
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-20
publication date: 2024-12-20
starting page: 160
ending page: 197
doi: 10.15388/Semiotika.2024.7

Towards a Chronotopical Analysis of Urban Squares
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description: This research aims to develop semiotic tools for analysing emergent and recently (re)designed urban everyday spaces, an emergent, changing and internally heterogeneous sociocultural phenomenon. Interlinking environmental semiosis of material space, interpretations by users in (inter)actions and textualisation in culture, the framework of chronotopical analysis is proposed and explored, together with broadening it from literary studies to the domain of urban space. Its application is exemplified in the material of recently (re)designed town squares in Estonia, an outcome of a nationwide program to revitalise small towns and develop the appreciation of public space in Estonian culture. The study outlines the framework of chronotopical analysis and demonstrates its potential for the integrative semiotic analysis of the multi-layered and dynamic character of recently designed urban spaces.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: urban semiotics
  topic: keywords
subject: semiotics of space
  topic: keywords
subject: chronotopical analysis
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subject: town squares
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subject: Great Public Space
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creator: Tiit Remm
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-19
publication date: 2024-12-19
starting page: 142
ending page: 159
doi: 10.15388/Semiotika.2024.6

Corporeal Spaces in L. S. Černiauskaitė’s “The Jasmin Chamber”
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description: The description of space in Greimas’ classical semiotics is based either on the subject’s narrative program and its relationship with the object of value or on the plastic properties of space, which determine the actor’s way of moving. In both cases, the relationship with space depends on the moving body; however, in literary texts, not only is motion important, but also the perception of space and the feelings it evokes. Usually, in literary criticism, the emotional relationship with space is regarded as a mental representation of the character. The analysis of Laura Sintija Černiauskaitė’s novelette “The Jasmin Chamber” highlights the limitations of this perspective, which assumes a one-sided link between the body and space. In the text, the character establishes a reciprocal bond with the home space. The home possesses corporeal properties, appears active and inviting, and the character functions as a sensitive and responsive body. In the novelette, a homology exists between the architectural structure and the individual body, both of which share the same category: continuous / discontinuous. The analysis of space shows that the characters connect only with family, driven by an unconscious desire for lasting relationships and continuity in their living space. Different characters’ interactions with space uncover the duality of desire: the wish to possess an object of value is intertwined with an unconscious pursuit of intense experiences.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Laura Sintija Černiauskaitė
  topic: keywords
subject: space
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subject: corporeality
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subject: perception
  topic: keywords
subject: sensations
  topic: keywords
creator: Izabelė Skikaitė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-19
publication date: 2024-12-19
starting page: 91
ending page: 122
doi: 10.15388/Semiotika.2024.4

Dramatic Space: Translating Euripides’ Medea into Lithuanian, Latvian, and Estonian
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description: This article analyzes the translations of Euripides’ Medea into Lithuanian, Estonian and Latvian languages. It investigates how translators convey or adapt the original space of ancient theatre and drama in the meta-discourse and discourse of tragedy. The article has three main parts devoted to Benediktas Kazlauskas’ Lithuanian translation, Augusts Ģiezens’ Latvian translation, and Tiit Palu’s Estonian adaptation. Each part is divided into subsections, where the mimetic and diegetic space of ancient drama, stage directions, and objects of space: house, bed, and door are analyzed. The meta-discourse of Kazlauskas and Ģiezens is compared to the English translation by David Kovacs. The study examines what new symbolic meanings Euripides assigns to spatial objects and how he reinterprets the meanings of home as a place of security and family, giving it new connotations. The article concludes that the translations of Euripides’ Medea from the three Baltic countries represent the dramatic space differently because the translators adhere to different ideologies. The philological translations of Kazlauskas and Ģiezens are similar due to the rendering of the ancient meter and are focused on the reader, while Tiit Palu’s adaptation is made for the theatre. Kazlauskas calls Medea’s house a “palace”, giving the space epicness, solemnity and formality. It can also be seen that his euphemistic language reflects the censorship of the Soviet era – not to translate words denoting the sexual sphere. Ģiezens’ translation into Latvian emphasizes the personal and intimate aspects of the drama. Tiit Palu’s Estonian adaptation focuses on the psychological depth of the drama, partially preserving the spatial and architectural integrity of the original while contextualizing ancient myth in the contemporary situation to make it more accessible for a modern audience. Each translator adapts the dramatic space to suit cultural contexts, balancing fidelity to Euripides’ original with accessibili…
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Euripides
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subject: Medea
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subject: ideology in translation
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subject: space in translation
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subject: Greek tragedy
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creator: Jovita Dikmonienė
creator: Līva Bodniece
creator: Maria-Kristiina Lotman
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-09
publication date: 2024-12-09
starting page: 59
ending page: 90
doi: 10.15388/Semiotika.2024.3

Harsh Noise Wall: Transformation of Sound and Space
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description: This article describes the authentic experience of a harsh noise wall, revealing the changing relationship between space and sound. The article focuses on the listener’s experience while listening to this subgenre of music live. To identify the elements that contribute to the creation of meaning, the analysis includes paramusical factors that are semiotically related, though not structurally specific to a particular musical discourse. To investigate this issue Philip Tagg’s semiotic method of music analysis is used. It is based on video recordings of performances by noise artists The Rita (USA), Merzbow (JPN) and Vomir (FR), with accompanying listener reviews. The study examines how listening mode, listening location, listener activity and cultural location alter the listener’s experience. Harsh noise wall, which first appears to be a homogeneous genre, becomes a heterogeneous object of musical and sensory experience. This article develops the idea that not only can the performance space affect the sound and the listener’s experience, but there is also the potential for this relationship to be reversed, as sound transforms the space and changes the visual notion of it.
subject: Articles
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subject: noise music
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subject: harsh noise wall
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subject: space of experience
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subject: music semiotics
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subject: Philip Tagg
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creator: Greta Statkauskaitė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-09
publication date: 2024-12-09
starting page: 33
ending page: 58
doi: 10.15388/Semiotika.2024.2

Gražiausia Don Žuano meilė
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subject: Articles
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creator: Barbey d'Aurevilly
rights: Copyright (c) 1994 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 1994-12-30
publication date: 1994-12-30
starting page: 3
ending page: 23
doi: 10.15388/Semiotika.1994.1.2

Table of Contents
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subject: Front Matter
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creator: Kęstutis Nastopka
rights: Copyright (c) 2009 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 1994-12-30
publication date: 1994-12-30
starting page: 1
ending page: 2

Heterotopic Moments of Being in Clarice Lispector’s The Besieged City
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description: The paper examines the novel A Cidade Sitiada, 1949 (The Besieged City, 2019) by Clarice Lispector, a work often overlooked yet rich in the exploration of urban transformation and subjective experience of city life. Through the character of Lucrécia Neves, Lispector presents a multifaceted view of São Geraldo, a fictional city undergoing significant change, and captures the psychological impact of these shifts on its inhabitants. The analysis focuses on what I term heterotopic moments of being, instances where the protagonist’s perception of her environment reveals the city’s layered and shifting nature. These moments draw on the Foucauldian concept of heterotopia, combining it with the notion of “moments of being” introduced by Virginia Woolf. By examining the moments, I aim to highlight how Lispector negotiates the boundaries between permanence and transience and fluidity and solidity in urban spaces. Methodologically, the study involves close reading and the concepts of literary urban studies in the examination of the passages from The Besieged City that vividly depict the transformations of the city. My study seeks to reveal how Lispector’s work contributes to the literary portrayal of urban space as an orienting and disruptive force, shaping characters’ perceptions of self, place, and the fluid boundaries between them.
subject: Articles
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subject: moments of being
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subject: heterotopia
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subject: Clarice Lispector
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subject: city
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subject: The Besieged City
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creator: Tetyana Kasima
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Tetyana Kasima https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-19
publication date: 2024-12-19
starting page: 123
ending page: 141
doi: 10.15388/Semiotika.2024.5

Gamta ir kultūra Merimee "Lokyje". Iš prancūzų kalbos vertė Kęstutis Nastopka
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subject: Articles
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creator: Michele Simonsen
rights: Copyright (c) 1995 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 1995-12-28
publication date: 1995-12-28
starting page: 78
ending page: 95
doi: 10.15388/Semiotika.1995.3

Pramanas ar portretas? Semiotinis Prospero Merimee „Lokio" skaitymas
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subject: Articles
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subject: -
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creator: Kęstutis Nastopka
rights: Copyright (c) 1995 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 1995-12-28
publication date: 1995-12-28
starting page: 40
ending page: 76
doi: 10.15388/Semiotika.1995.2

Lokys. Iš prancūzų kalbos vertė Ramutė Ramunienė
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subject: Articles
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subject: -
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creator: Prosper Merimee
rights: Copyright (c) 1995 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 1995-12-28
publication date: 1995-12-28
starting page: 4
ending page: 38
doi: 10.15388/Semiotika.1995.1