Love in Times of Cholera: Systemic Reflections on Supporting Families Through the Journey(s) of Illness

This paper is the result of our increasing interest in the experience of illness in families and the concomitant reflections on how best to therapeutically support these families through this process. This interest led us to reflect on the nuanced way in which language establishes a play with the experience of illness, a play that can amplify or reduce its effects. Such an interplay in turn led us to consider the valuable role that family therapists have in helping families and treating practitioners to create a safe space for conversation about illness. Further questions are also explored in relation to whether there is a role for family therapists in facilitating the interface between our clinical practice with clients and the wider treating medical community. And, if so, what shape would such an interface take? Considerations at this level would include the anticipation of psychological reactions to diagnosis of chronic and life‐threatening illnesses, in particular the importance of ‘normalisation’ of the psychological reactions to such chronic and/or life threatening diagnoses; the complex dynamics emerging from the interface between the effects of illness in the subjectivity of the ill person and the grief experienced by the other family members; different family members’ narratives of the illness; relevant community contexts; and, lastly, ways to help the family members and/or the ill person navigate the medical system including the use of second opinions, cyberspace information, and other systems in their ecology, such as the spiritual dimension. Some aspects of children's narratives of illness are also identified. The paper has been organised around the dialogue that the authors had around one of their clinical cases.     

论符号学三分法对语言哲学和语言逻辑的影响

语形学、语义学和语用学原本是符号学的分类法,由于符号学是比语言学、逻辑学和哲学更基本的学科平台,符号学的三分法对20世纪西方语言学、逻辑学和哲学的发展产生了根本性的影响。本文详细分析符号学三分法对语言哲学和语言逻辑的影响,并特别阐明语用学转向对理论语言学、语言哲学和语言逻辑的意义。     

传播符号学及其理论建构

具有百年历史的传播学研究在当代遇到了相当多的理论瓶颈，甚至被某些学者称之为传播学范式的危机。如何化解这种范式危机便成为传播学界孜孜以求的话题。某种程度上，正在成为“显学”的符号学恰恰能够提供这种化解危机的理论资源，符号学作为人文科学的“公分母”，本质上是一门“意义之学”，具体到传播而言，关注的是传播文本的意义建构，而非表象的传播效果。将符号学用于传播研究，能够从深层次揭示传播现象背后的原因。这样的背景下，传播符号学呼之欲出，传播符号学作为一门学科便具有了学理上的合法性与正当性。     

洛特曼文化符号学的学理反思

俄国文化符号学代表洛特曼倡导从文化描写的元系统出发,将文化与非文化视为互为制约、相互补充的复调结构。文化符号学不仅作为消解现代性的方案,有效避免了总体化的暴力倾向,揭示了复杂场域的权力关系引发的压制与突围,为地方文化、小型叙事提供了合法化存在的依据,同时促成文学性至文本性、文本性至互文性的转变,助益从文学的角度理解文化,从文化的视野阐释文学,跨学科、多学科的综合型理论研究范式的形成,对“后理论时代”的文学研究和文化研究具有重要的参考价值与理论意义。     

试析安澜园景观符号的象征意义

在对清代江南四大名园之一的安澜园历史原貌考证的基础上,追溯了该园的历史沿革及其更迭的社会背景,探析了全盛时期园中的景观布局与构成园中景观的诸要素。并从西方符号学理论模式的视角入手,通过符号语义中象征和类比手法对园中假山、水体空间、花木造景及建筑布局所表达的象征意义分别进行论述。基于景观特征与空间形态考证,进行深入解析和探究,力求使该园重新获得人们对它应有价值的认知。     

论中国古代文体的规定性及符号学特征

针对中国古代文体的规定性和符号学特征,从两个方面展开对中国古代文体学的学科思考：一是从基内涵与对象出发,探索中国古代文体学的性质;二是依据符号学理论阐述“文体”对内容的规定性,并通过和西方文体学之间的比较,确立文体学在文章学研究中的重要地位。     

The Past in the Present. Lessons on Semiotics of History from George H. Mead and Boris A. Uspensky

This article examines the parallels between George H. Mead's theory of time and Boris A. Uspensky's semiotics of history, looking for implications relevant to the symbolic interactionist theory of historical processes. It suggests that Mead's theory of time and theory of communication hold important implications for semiotic analysis of the historical dimension of sociocultural phenomena. A further aim is to link the symbolic interactionist tradition of the Chicago school with the Tartu school and its semiotics of history. This would fuel the further development of both theoretical orientations.     

符号学理论视野中纪实摄影的真实性分析

我国对纪实摄影本体论和真实性的研究,很少从符号学分析入手,忽略了符号学语境下所潜藏着的价值。依据符号的直觉性、二重性、情感性和主观性,对纪实摄影视觉图像符号的真实性进行研究和探讨。     

语言意义的象似表征

意义的象似表征理论动摇了索绪尔语言学中任意性的定律.根据皮尔斯的符号学理论,分析了语言意义象似表征的理论基础及象似的标准,介绍了皮尔斯符号学理论在语言象似性研究中的地位及应用,指出语言的意义是通过从次象似符到真象似符的连续体上的某一象似符来表征的,并在语篇层面上通过内指象似(即语篇内部的象似)和外指象似(即语篇外部的象似)阐述了语言意义的表征过程;介绍了语篇间的象似性(即互文性),结合语用象似的观点,分析了意义在传递过程中的象似性.