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This research discusses the documentary analysis of comics in a semiotics framework in order to guarantee library retrieval by users. Comic cataloging presents difficulties due to their being a resource that integrates both verbal and non-verbal language. The objective of this exploratory, qualitative and applied research is to look into the relationships that can be established between cataloging and semiotics of culture, in order to contribute to the theoretical and epistemological grounds of the organization and representation of information in comics. Through bibliographic procedures, the results are traced by means of the content analysis method. The concepts developed by the semiotics of culture can contribute to cataloging, mainly in the processes of document reading, subject analysis, and subject cataloging. The results demonstrate that the concepts of cultural semiotics allow defining aspects of the semiosphere of the author and the cataloguer, since both permeate the construction of the bibliographic record of comics. In conclusion, the cataloger, as a mediator, is in charge of understanding the cultural codes that make up the semiosphere of comics, thus assuring the user the conditions to satisfy their informational needs, through translation and transcoding. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The centrality of the proposal of this article is to discuss to what extent the investigation of the semi-diversity of culture reveals an atmosphere, whose power is capable of fostering creative and innovative explosions to the Creative Industries. In fact, given its configuration and complexity such an atmosphere is established in the extreme creative chaos, which is the basis of any innovative process. Certainly, culture points to a privileged articulation to apprehend the unpredictable mechanisms of creativity, whose character is established in disruptive innovations. It is certainly that such research shows that this path opens up for the engendering of unprecedented formats and products, thus expanding the field of coverage of a Creative and Cultural Economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we reflect on the bodies of fat women who manifest themselves on Instagram as they disrupt media regulation and standardization by using the aforementioned platform as a mobilization tool. The theoretical framework is organized from an intersectional perspective in connection with studies on the body, the ‘place of speech’ and the concepts of ‘semiosphere’ and semiotic ‘explosion’. The proposed method for investigating the profiles of three digital influencers is based on the semiotics of culture in relation to intersectionality and the place of speech. In this scenario, we find an important and insurgent movement of resignifying the body in the media and expressing the active subjectivities of subalternized fat women who impose cultural and political issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents four exemplary compositional dimensions of the literary piece El Desierto Prodigioso y Prodigio del Desierto by Pedro de Solís y Valenzuela. In the first place, is specified the disciplinary foundations of a poetics of colonial fiction and the relevance of the selected work. Next, the article delves into the intertextualities of "El Desierto", that outlines the mechanisms of appropriation and resignification that allow the cultural subjects of the "New World" to destabilize the hegemonic cultural models of the metropolis. Concomitant to this study, the paratexts of the system are dismantled to prove that some of the subversions within the dispute over the signifiers of the "Contrarreforma" are veiled with fictional resources of the highest heuristic value. Finally, we examine the metafictional elements of the text and the statute of "poetic in itself" of the literary work, from the synchronic cut of its generic projection, in the Field of Reference of the seventeenth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work aims to analyze how modern dystopias use symbolic elements from medieval narratives to provoke in the reader what many theorists classify as a warning sign about the consequences of totalitarian regimes. For this study, we will use the concepts of the semiotics of culture to understand how this exchange of elements occurs in the engagement of the reader, as well as the relevance of the recreation of fears rooted in the social culture and religious symbolic field, to the understanding of the message. In addition, we will make use of other authors who have theorized about modern dystopias and the imaginary, as well as the symbolic in the construction of the society's cultural identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The goal of this article is to start a problematization about possible interrelationships between Semiotic of Culture (Russian) and Amerindian Perspectivism focused to compose reading keys about intercultural dynamics in societies outside on Western hegemonic cultures. We seek to challenge the understanding of communication processes with a view to semiosis from reflections about anthropophagy/ cannibalism in the culture of forest peoples. We are understanding that we must have a considerable displacement to semiosis comprehension, significance process, language understanding, the organization of codes and thought about Amerindian culture, considering the reflection on beyond cultural environment concerning the culture in which the researchers are inserted. The argument of this text goes to defend the fact that there is a coherent and differentiated semiotic construction that can be studied in the construction of semiosis of the bodies in Brazilian indigenous cultures and which we call here semiophagy - a mix of semiotics and anthropophagy that is strengthened by Amerindian perspectivism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The city is an important field for semiotic analysis, among other aspects, the retail impacts in the lives of its residents, in culture, in consumption and the image of the urban space. This work aims to point out the features of the discourse of the image in the city and the signs of culture as influenced by retail, and the indicators they do to promote consumption. Two images of the city of Londrina-PR are compared, both taken at the same location one from the period of 1940-50 and the other of 2018. The analysis of the signs visible in these moments, allows for remarkable inferences about the role of the retail environment in the constitution of the urban spatiality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper intends to analyze Amores Roubados, a TV miniseries (TV Globo, 2014) adapted from "A emparedada da Rua Nova" (1909) by Joaquim Maria Carneiro Vilela. The goal of this analysis is to present the meanings that emerge from the observation of dialogical relations between fiction, its audience and sociocultural ambience. In the process of adaptation, the changes are regarded according to the articulation of the concepts of 'text,' 'memory,' and 'culture' as understood by Lotman, and intertwined with the memory of the Brazilian fictional televised genre. This study indicates that the miniseries contributes to deconstruct machismo and for the democratization in gender relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we present some considerations about Yuri Lotman's semiotics of culture in the context of his dialogue with the Italian semiotician Umberto Eco in the theoretical field, by comparing Lotman's model of cultural dynamics with Eco's concept of "closed" and "open work", and also on the occasion of the publication in the Soviet Union of Eco's first novel The name of the Rose. Lotman's essay "The exit of the labyrinth", dedicated to this novel, brings an opportunity to follow the dialogue between two great scholars of sign, one of which, to exemplify his theoretical constructs, mainly relies on Russian culture, while the other chooses a genre of mass literature, the detective novel. This comparison shows clearly the expansion of the field of semiotic studies in the second half of the twentieth century as a result of which semiotics starts to analyze culture in general and mass culture in particular. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Interdisciplinary generated deep and renewing changes in questions to the texts, which always revolved around authorship, historical background and genealogy of traditions. Observing the history of the establishment of sciences of religion from the early works of Max Müller, it is known that the reading of sacred narratives was fundamental. These are expressions of oral or written language of the religious environment. In this text, the intuitions of semiotics of culture of I. Lotman will be presented and put into dialogue with the narrative theories, to be thought some epistemological and methodological assumptions, less debt of historicist methodologies in order to serve as a tool for interpreting these sacralized texts by religious communities. For this done, will present and discuss concepts such as text, culture, memory and narrative, which will allow to make the necessary criticisms of the traditional methodologies crystallized in interpretative practice, especially in the child exegesis of modernity, as also propose new questions and ways in compression of the religious texts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The relationship between religion and language is the focus of renewed attention in the Brazilian graduate programs in Religious Studies through Congress working groups and areas of concentration devoted to the study of what is conventionally called Religious Languages. This article proposes a link to this new field of study through a semiotic and cognitive approach, suggesting the study of religion as a secondary language system through three fundamental semiotic systems: gesture, image (metaphor) and narrative. Their religious counterparts are ritual, icon (poetry) and myth. These three systems work together as hybrid and multi codified cultural texts, with a high level of power in creating new messages. Finally, the article also discusses the fictional and grotesque aspects of religious expressions as well as some of its distinctive features. According to them, besides the fact that religion structures the world, religion tends to stress and explicit the "as if" games of culture, and pushes cultural representations to the borders of its established systems. Religion proposes to culture dense and kaleidoscopic representation systems, who articulate textually ambiguous and paradoxal aspects of social life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The goal of this paper is to reflect upon the ruptures of meaning in Brazilian contemporary series. The theoretical-methodological framework is based on semiotics of culture. The reflection will be based on Lotman's explosion concept (1999) in order to reflect upon how the aesthetic and narrative aspects observed in telefiction may provoke tension that leads to new meanings and makes us realize certain cultural systems which compose the semiosphere thought by Lotman (1999). We believe that, recurrently, productions have been shown, especially by the main open channel, TV Globo, which offer something unpredictable to the viewer in relation to visual aesthetics and also to narrative pathways and, thus, propose new ways of telling fiction stories on television. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following article aims to understand the montage of photojournalism in the press, specifically focusing on the social-cultural and semiotic dimensions of different possible narrative models, when considering their legitimizing role in political-economic orders. The objective is to investigate if the photojournalistic montage is able to trigger a relational cognitive process in the reader that would allow the construction of alternative visibilities, questioning the fixed nature of knowledge. By pointing out the different temporalities in the news, it suggests that a hybrid photographic text could create cracks in the modern binary narrative of constant progress. Its empirical object is a feature on the 50 years of the Chinese Revolution and the success of the capitalist economic model by Brazilian newspaper Folha de S. Paulo. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]