Readings in Numanities

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This unique book gathers articles from the numanistic perspective of multidisciplinarity and innovation, connected by three main theoretical interests or overarching themes: music, semiotics and translation. Offering an eclectic collection of innovative papers that address such topics as culture, musicology, art consumption, meaning, codes and national identities, to name a few, it has a broad appeal across the humanities and social sciences. The contributing authors draw on various schools and methodologies, including psychology, psychoanalysis, social semiotics, semiotic modelling, deconstruction and cultural analysis. By approaching established themes in new and challenging ways, this highly engaging book has the potential to advance the state of the art in various topics. It appeals to all scholars investigating cultural identity, linguistics and translation, music consumption, performance, semiotic theories and various intersections of these and related topics. Front Matter ....Pages i-xii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Semiotics as a Proposal for a Numanistic Educational Programme (Alin Olteanu)....Pages 3-17 Dreams and Narratives: From Psychoanalysis to Contemporary Imaginaries (Simona Stano)....Pages 19-28 The Use of Semiotics in Content Analysis: The Case of Belarusian Patriotic Advertising (Yuliya Martinavichene)....Pages 29-47 Temporal Deixis as a Participation Marker: A Case Study of the Russian News Media (Diana Burbienė, Marija Sabaliauskienė)....Pages 49-65 Lithuanian Viewers’ Attitude Towards Dubbed Animated Films (Indrė Koverienė, Danguolė Satkauskaitė)....Pages 67-84 Eating Diversity, Creating Identity: Translations of the Culinary Code Between Creativity and Misunderstandings (Simona Stano)....Pages 85-92 Front Matter ....Pages 93-93 A Semiotic Analysis of the Songs Calvi Aravi and Rey Don Alonso in Francisco de Salina’s de Musica Libri Septem: The Construction and Deconstruction of Cultural Identities in the Transition Between Muslim and Catholic Spain (Ricardo Nogueira de Castro Monteiro)....Pages 95-113 Meaning, Identity Constructions and Deconstructions in the Song/Poem “Swift Bird”, by the Andalusian Medieval Poetess Wallada Bint al-Mustakfi (Ricardo Nogueira de Castro Monteiro)....Pages 115-129 Artistic Research as a Quest of the New Knowledge. On Practice-Based Research in Acting (Ramunė Balevičiūtė)....Pages 131-143 The Musicality of Literature and the Semiotics of Music (Rūta Brūzgienė)....Pages 145-157 Music Performer as Medium, Star and Product: A Socio-Semiotic Investigation (Lina Navickaitė-Martinelli)....Pages 159-173 Front Matter ....Pages 175-175 Title Influence on Musical Meaning: A Socio-Psychological Experiment (Ulrika Varankaitė)....Pages 177-196 Reconstructing Self-Identity: Local, Global and Technological Drives (Vilmantė Liubinienė)....Pages 197-208 Communication of Cultures by Means of Localisation (Dainora Maumevičienė)....Pages 209-231 Front Matter ....Pages 233-233 Determinologisation of Lithuanian and English Technical Terms: The Case of Apparatus (Jurgita Mikelionienė, Aušra Berkmanienė)....Pages 235-246 Reconsidering Mapping from the Perspective of Semiotic Spatial Modelling (Tiit Remm)....Pages 247-261 Confluences of Cultures: Lithuanian Translation of CSI in S. Jobs’ Biography (Saulė Juzelėnienė, Saulė Petronienė, Ksenija Kopylova)....Pages 263-272 Strengthening the Cognitive Capacity of a Standard–Literary Language—the Semiotic Aspect (Olga Lesicka)....Pages 273-284 Polysemy in the Terminology of Economics (Virginija Stankevičienė, Viorika Šestakova)....Pages 285-299 Semiotics and Philosophy: The Ontological Approach in the Semiotics of Algirdas Julius Greimas (Jurgita Katkuvienė)....Pages 301-309 The Notion of Code in Semiotics and Semiotically Informed Translation Studies. A Preliminary Study (Evangelos Kourdis)....Pages 311-325 From Konrad Lorenz’s “Phylogenetic Apriorism” to the Birth of Evolutionary Epistemology (Marco Celentano)....Pages 327-342