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	LOGOS MULTILINGUAL PORTAL
		In order for these texts to appear real in the eyes of a given semiosphere, it has to translate them into one of the languages within its inner space, i.e.
		For this reason the border points of the semiosphere can be considered similar to the sensorial receptors translating outer stimuli into the language of our nervous system, or to blocks of translation that adapt to a given semiotic sphere, a world that is foreign to it
		At the semiosphere level, it means a distinction between its own from the others', a filtering of the outer communications and their translation into its own language, as well as transforming the outer non-communications into communications, i.e.
	www.logos.it /pls/dictionary/linguistic_resources.cap_1_29?lang=bp (1068 words)

	Peeter Torop - Cultural semiotics and culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Noosphere itself is substantial-spatial, whereas semiosphere is abstract space in which languages, texts, and cultures intertwine.
		Semiosphere is this conditional space without which semiosis would be impossible, but at the same time the notion of semiosphere rather presupposes implication of the notion of intersemiosis.
		Now it is boundary what frames the semiosphere, but the entanglement of boundaries inside semiosphere is just as important: “the boundary of semiotic space is the most important functional and structural position of this space that determines the essence of the semiotic mechanism of it.
	www.ut.ee /SOSE/7torops.html (4757 words)

	A Learner’s Space » Publications
		Semiosphere is the semiotic space, outside of which semiosis cannot exist.
		The division between the core and the periphery is a law of the internal organisation of the semiosphere.
		The levels of the semiosphere comprise an inter-connected group of semiospheres, each of them being simultaneously both participant in the dialogue (as part of the semiosphere) and the space of dialogue (the semiosphere as a whole).
	www.itbubble.com /?page_id=248 (184 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Semiosphere
		Semiosphere is the sphere of semiosis in which the sign processes operate in the set of all interconnected Umwelts.
		Juri Lotman, a semiotician at Tartu University, Estonia, was inspired by Vernadsky's terms biosphere and noosphere to propose that a semiosphere comes into being when any two Umwelts are communicating.
		This implies that the semiosphere may be partially independent of the Umwelts.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Semiosphere (287 words)

	The Semiosphere (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The concept of the semiosphere was originally introduced by the russian-Estonian semiotician Yuri Lotman (Lotmann 1990).
		In my definition the semiosphere is a sphere like the atmosphere, the hydrosphere or the biosphere.
		The semiosphere, however, emanates from within organisms and there is no way it can be kept apart from physiology, biochemistry or molecular biology.
	www.molbio.ku.dk /MolBioPages/abk/PersonalPages/Jesper/Semiosphere.html (4165 words)

	LOGOS MULTILINGUAL PORTAL
		The semiosphere is confined by the space which surrounds it; it can be extrasemiotic (a space where signification processes do not occur, like a natural space) or heterosemiotic (i.e.
		The semiosphere, that can be thought of as larger or smaller according to the definition of its inner and outer boundaries, is a huge translation organism.
		If in every meadow an oak grew, if all the world were made of meadows and so on, if, in other words, in the semiosphere the level of entropy were zero, in the semiosphere there would be no life, the semiotic world would be dead.
	www.logos.it /pls/dictionary/linguistic_resources.cap_1_29_en?lang=en (768 words)

	The Semiosphere
		In my definition the semiosphere is a sphere like the atmosphere, the hydrosphere or the biosphere.
		The semiosphere is a sphere like the atmosphere, the hydrosphere or the biosphere.
		The semiosphere, however, emanates from within organisms and there is no way it can be kept apart from physiology, biochemistry or molecular biology.
	www.imbf.ku.dk /MolBioPages/abk/PersonalPages/Jesper/Semiosphere.html (4165 words)

	Teaching literacy in multicultural classroom: Towards a pedagogy of 'Thidspace'
		In Lotman's scholarship, the semiosphere of culture is in a constant state of mutation.
		The boundaries of the semiosphere are sites of semiotic creativity, which is facilitated by the movement of texts and the sociocultural dynamics of people.
		On the one hand, the notion of semiotic motion within and across the semiosphere of a culture cleaves open its hegemonic political discourse within the bounded notion of cultural space, mapping the turbulent patterns of 'bilingual translation'.
	www.aare.edu.au /02pap/kos02346.htm (5921 words)

	Fundamental Science and M-Theory
		The surface of a semiosphere is a semiotic membrane or 'sembrane'.
		Each of these semiospheres or universes of discourse both in-forms and gives form to the inner universe of awareness that constitutes the scientist's own noosphere.
		The fact that any sembrane or semiosphere consists of a network of mutually related signifiers does not imply that there is no interior semantic depth dimension to these planes or spheres of signification.
	www.newgnosis.co.uk /inniverse/mtheory.html (2829 words)

	TRANS Nr. 15: Tomislav Brlek (Zagreb): Polyphiloprogenitive: T.S. Eliot's Notion of Culture
		The multiform dialectical interaction that is culture crucially involves the notion of community and postulates ongoing interpretation as the lifeline of all cultural activity, predicated as it is on the ceaseless semiotic feedback between the heterogeneous codes that comprise it and the communicative exchange with the "outside" through which its "inside" is actually brought about.
		Whatever else he may be taken to be, T.S. Eliot is generally not thought of as a semiotician, and his work, poetic as well as theoretical, has apparently not received much attention in the form of semiotic analysis.
		For Lotman, the semiotic space of the semiosphere is crucially brought about by "the unifying factor of the boundary, which divides the internal space of the semiosphere from the external, its inside from its outside" (Lotman 1990: 130).
	www.inst.at /trans/15Nr/01_2/brlek15.htm (1961 words)

	Kalevi Kull - On semiosis, Umwelt, and semiosphere (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Semiosphere is the set of all interconnected Umwelts.
		The semiosphere, as a notion used by Hoffmeyer (who came to it independently), seems to have a slightly different meaning than the definition given above.
		59: 'the semiosphere imposes limitations on the Umwelt of its resident populations in the sense that, to hold its own in the semiosphere, a population must occupy a "semiotic niche"') seem to show that semiosphere is something which may be partially independent of the organisms' Umwelts.
	www.zbi.ee /~kalevi/jesphohp.htm (3958 words)

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		Lotman's diachronic approach, seeking to understand the role of the "accidental unstable, (and) extrasystematic" (6) at all levels of the semiosphere, is a necessary correction to the synchronic emphasis traditional in semiotic or structural thinking.
		Lotman's main point about the semiosphere is that, as the ultimate and most all-encompasing semiotic structure, it is marked by the same functional asymmetry that characterizes the semiotic structures enclosed within it.
		From the centre to the periphery of the semiosphere, this untranslatability increases.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /epc/srb/srb/interpretations.html (3356 words)

	TRANS Nr. 15: Tünde Szabó (Budapest): Chaos in Culture - A Dynamic Model of Historical and Literary ...
		The term semiosphere is used to denote a concept of culture put forward by Yuri Lotman, the leading figure of the Moscow-Tartu School of Semiotics.
		In Lotman's concept the semiosphere is both a result and a precondition of the concerted intellectual activity of humanity.
		Any synchronic section of the semiosphere reveals systems at different stages of development, since their speed and developmental cycles show great differences (for example, alterations in language are considerably slower than those in the mental-ideological structures growing out of it).
	www.inst.at /trans/15Nr/05_12/szabo15.htm (1823 words)

	Arbeitsstelle für Semiotik
		Each semiosphere is characterized by its individuality and homogeneity, by its opposition to the exterior, and by irregularity in its internal structure.
		The border between the interior and the exterior of a semiosphere is maintained by the mutual strangeness of sign users, texts, and codes and is partially overcome through processes of translation.
		The irregularity in the internal structure of a semiosphere, which has a center that is surrounded by areas which become increasingly amorphous in the direction of the periphery, is responsible for the inner dynamics of the semiosphere.
	ling.kgw.tu-berlin.de /semiotik/english/ZFS/Zfs90_4_e.htm (896 words)

	Untitled1
		Nor is its key notion, a semiosphere - a sphere different from, but related to semiotics in the cultural sphere and biosphere in natural science.
		Of course, the general proposition that communication among and between organisms in the natural environment is self-evident; communication is not exclusive to human beings, and, by extension there is plenty of evidence to show that the capacity for signification, as part of a communicative repertoire, is not specific to our species either.
		His premise that the sign, not the molecule, is the crucial, underlying factor in the study of life is radically different from the premises of mainstream biology.
	www.semioticon.com /frontline/harries_jones.htm (6166 words)

	The Semiotic Review of Books
		In the chapter "Dialogue mechanisms" Lotman expands the notion of the boundary by an explanation of the process of "transmission" and "reception" in the dialogue of semiospheres represented by distant and unrelated national cultures.
		The receiving culture changes to a state of activity and begins rapidly to produce new texts based on cultural codes which in the distant past were stimulated by invasions from outside, but which now have been wholly transformed into a new and original structural model.
		The receiving culture becomes the centre of the semiosphere and changes into a transmitting culture which issues a flood of texts directed to other, peripheral areas of the semiosphere (Lotman 146-7).
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /epc/srb/srb/2-3edit.html (1889 words)

	3. The world of relation: SEM
		Lotman (1990: 123): By analogy with the biosphere, (Vernadsky's concept) we could talk of a semiosphere, which we shall derive as the semiotic space necessary for the existence and functioning of languages, not the sum total of different languages; in a sense the semiosphere has a prior existence and is in constant interaction with languages.
		The unit of semiosis, the smallest functioning mechanism, is not the separate language but the whole semiotic space of the culture in question.
		The semiosphere is the result and the condition for the development of culture; we justify our term by analogy with the biosphere, as Vernadsky defined it, namely the totality and the organic whole of living matter and also the condition for the continuation of life.
	www.uni-ulm.de /uni/intgruppen/memosys/poly04.htm (2931 words)

	A Learner’s Space » Archives » Tenacity and Not Knowing When To Stop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		When I first got interested in semiosphere just under two years ago, there hardly seemed to be anything out there… now there’s a real plethora of material, and it’s expanding outwards into other areas… from cultural semiotics into computer semiotics and so on.
		I was particularly interested to see the link he made between Lotman’s semiosphere and Csikzsentmihalyi’s concepts of domain and field - a connection I had also made right back at the beginning, through the serendipitous action of reading Csikzentmihalyi’s book: “Flow” just prior to reading “Universe of the Mind” for the first time round.
		I quite like the Kotov article: “Semiosphere: A Chemistry of Being” - it gives a decent overview of Vernadsky’s concept of Biosphere and Lotman’s on Semiosphere… as well as some consideration of cultural dynamics and the distinction between Lotman’s semiosphere and that proposed by Jesper Hoffmeyer under the same term.
	www.itbubble.com /?p=43 (902 words)

	:: international society for biosemiotic studies ::
		And it is entirely possible that these semiotic demands to populations are often a decisive challenge to success.
		For perhaps more than anything else, organic evolution testifies to the development of ever more sophisticated semiotic means for surviving in the semiosphere.
		Biosemiotics is the interdisciplinary attempt to discover and understand the ubiquitous role of sign-exchange across all levels of biological organization.
	www.biosemiotics.org /index.html (210 words)

	Bioetik
		As stated above, the object of global semiotics, of semiotics of life, is the semiosphere.
		In fact the latter limited the sphere of reference of the term "semiosphere" to human culture.
		On the contrary, in the perspective of global semiotics where semiosis coincides with life (in this sense we may also call it "semiotics of life"), the semiosphere identifies with the biosphere, and emerges therefore as the semiobiosphere.
	www.augustoponzio.com /bioetik.htm (3212 words)

	Future home of the Working Group for
		However, in such posterized Semiosis, the fidelity of the appreciation of the receiver of the sense constructed subjectively is proportional to the accuracy of the reconstruction of the missing information needed to complete the semiotic sphere of the receiving agency.
		The accuracy of the semiosphere is a time-sequence of previous anticipatorial moments, and also able to rapidly escalate to gross mis-interpretation, in exponential manor.
		Perhaps semiosphere is another name for Professor Smith’s “appreciative field”.
	www.bcngroup.org /python3/twentytwo.htm (415 words)

	Semiotics for Beginners: Introduction
		Thinking in 'ecological' terms about the interaction of different semiotic structures and languages led the Russian cultural semiotician Yuri Lotman to coin the term 'semiosphere' to refer to 'the whole semiotic space of the culture in question' (Lotman 1990, 124-125).
		The concept is related to ecologists' references to 'the biosphere' and perhaps to cultural theorists' references to the public and private spheres, but most reminiscent of Teilhard de Chardin's notion (dating back to 1949) of the 'noosphere' - the domain in which mind is exercised.
		This conception of a semiosphere may make semioticians seem territorially imperialistic to their critics, but it offers a more unified and dynamic vision of semiosis than the study of a specific medium as if each existed in a vacuum.
	www.aber.ac.uk /media/Documents/S4B/sem01.html (4891 words)

	ethics forum: Post-modernism, take two
		Ideally, Luke Slattery's quoted text should have been deconstructed and the act of quoting him itself should have been deconstructed, to objectively prove that all truth is subjective, and that we are sure that nothing can be surely known.
		the general mechanism of cultural semiosis: the notion of asymmetry (dissymmetry) and heterogeneity in the semiosphere, the notion of boundary, and an assumption that any text is preceded by another text as well as the priority of the semiotic space in relation to the single acts of communication.
		The asymmetry of the substructures of the semiosphere provides a necessary condition for the dialogue that is a basic mechanism of any semiotic act; whereas the basic source of meaning generation, i.e.
	www.ethics.org.au /ethics_forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1160&PN=1 (1869 words)

	Telecom Italia - Innovation - Hot Topics - Mobile - All articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		I chose this word to emphasize that man belongs to the sphere of culture and not to its opposite.
		The semiosphere leads us to the end of our reasoning by resuming the metaphor of the town square.
		In its Medieval and Renaissance model, the town square is the successful correspondence of the façade of S. Maria Novella and the basic concepts of geometry.
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