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The Companion to Juri Lotman: A Semiotic Theory of Culture
Compiler: M. Tamm, P. Torop
Editor of translation: M. Tamm, P. Torop
Juri Lotman (1922–1993), the Jewish-Russian-Estonian historian, literary scholar and semiotician, was one of the most original and important cultural theorists of the 20th century, as well as a co-founder of the well-known Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics. This is the first authoritative volume in any language to explore the main facets of Lotman's work and discuss his main ideas in the context of contemporary scholarship.
Boasting an interdisciplinary cast of contributing academics from across mainland Europe, as well as the USA, the UK, Australia, Argentina and Brazil, The Companion to Juri Lotman is the definitive text about Lotman's intellectual legacy. The book is structured into three main sections – Context, Concepts and Dialogue – which simultaneously provide ease of navigation and intriguing prisms through which to view his various scholarly contributions. Saussure, Bakhtin, Language, Memory, Space, Cultural History, New Historicism, Literary Studies and Political Theory are just some of the thinkers, themes and approaches examined in relation to Lotman, while the introduction and thematic Lotman bibliography that frame the main essays provide valuable background knowledge and useful information for further research.
The book foregrounds how Lotman's insights have been especially influential in conceptualizing meaning making practices in culture and society, and how they, in turn, have inspired the work of a diverse group of scholars. The Companion to Juri Lotman shines a light on a hugely significant and all-too often neglected figure in 20th-century intellectual history.
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Poselyagin N., , in: The Companion to Juri Lotman: A Semiotic Theory of Culture.: L., NY, Dublin: Bloomsbury, 2022. Ch. 16 P. 225–233.
The chapter is devoted to a concept of (visual) image in Juri Lotman's semiotic theory, especially in his works on visuality and cinema studies. ...
Added: February 3, 2022
Zenkin S., , in: The Companion to Juri Lotman: A Semiotic Theory of Culture.: L., NY, Dublin: Bloomsbury, 2022. Ch. 23 P. 311–320.
Essay on Yuri Lotman's relationship with French philosophy and theory of culture of his time. It includes such issues as disciplinary context, semiotics, sign, secondary sign systems, text, semiosphere, inner speech, simulacra, dialectics, typology of cultures, philosophy of history, politics. ...
Added: November 1, 2022
Balakireva M., Новое литературное обозрение 2026 № 2 (198) С. 225–237
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Added: June 1, 2026
Tyuryakova-Matveeva D., Цифровые гуманитарные исследования 2026 № 1 С. 4–26
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Ильина Е. А., Международный научно-исследовательский журнал 2024 № 6(144)
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Ильина Е. А., Russian linguistic Bulletin 2024 № 12 С. 1–7
The present article examines the issue of the changing nature of the scientific style of speech of the Russian literary
language in the postnonclassical period. The analysis of denominative prepositions in scientific speech works (scientific
articles on three branches: artificial intelligence, synergetics and cosmology) has demonstrated the continuation of the process
of crystallization of one of the most ...
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Тырыгина В. А., Кабанова И. Н., Вестник Нижегородского государственного лингвистического университета им. Н.А. Добролюбова 2023 № 4 С. 180–191
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М.: ООО «Адвансед солюшнз», 2026.
Данный выпуск сборника студенческих статей .Восточная перспектива. включает в себя статьи победителей и призеров XI Международной научной студенческой конференции "Восточная перспектива", состоявшейся 18 мая 2024 года. В 2024 году на конференцию было подано 115 заявок, офлайн и онлайн в конференции приняли участие докладчики и слушатели из различных вузов России и ближнего и дальнего Зарубежья. ...
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М.: ООО «Адвансед солюшнз», 2026.
Данный выпуск сборника студенческих статей «Восточная перспектива» включает в себя статьи победителей и призеров X Международной научной студенческой конференции «Восточная перспектива», состоявшейся 15 апреля 2023 года. Юбилейная конференция стала знаковым событием для студентов различных подразделений НИУ ВШЭ и других вузов России, занимающихся подготовкой востоковедческих кадров. ...
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NOTA BENE, 2025.
he article is devoted to the description of a voice message in order to introduce a definition of this communicative phenomenon. Despite the contradictory nature of this phenomenon, its popularity has been growing since 2013 to the present day. However, a voice message still does not have a clear definition, as it has specific characteristics ...
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Gabrielova E., Шевякова Ю. С., Вестник Удмуртского университета 2026 Vol. 36 No. 2 P. 344–354
In today's globalized world, the effectiveness of sales and the success of products largely rely on well-crafted advertising texts. Influenced by this factor and the growing competition, advertising continuously evolves, incorporating various linguistic, psychological, and cross-cultural techniques. This study focuses on the linguistic and stylistic analysis of perfume advertising texts within English and Russian discourses, ...
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Bulakh M., Aethiopica 2025 Vol. 28 P. 39–52
The article deals with the curse formula belonging to the sixth-century inscription by an Aksumite king Wʿzb (RIÉ 192 B, ll. 5–9). After summarizing the extant interpretations, the author proposes a new reading and interpretation, arguing that the text under scrutiny follows the same pattern and employs the same rhetoric devices as the curse formulas ...
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Nebolsin D., Логос 2026 Т. 36 № 1 С. 113–134
The article addresses the problem of theorizing the relationship between sound and visuality on the material of the more specific topics of recorded sound and visual image. The text is organized as a playlist: throughout the eight sound examples, it identifies the concepts of current image theory that are relevant for theoretical problems of sound ...
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Bocharov Y., M.: -, 2025.
This textbook is designed for students improving their Spanish proficiency at levels B1-B2. It consists of five topics and a selection of texts to reinforce them. The first topic covers the morphology of the four tenses (present, perfect, imperfect, subjunctive perfect) and exercises on the formation of forms. The remaining topics are devoted to exploring ...
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Бережная М. А., Novikova A., Кирия И. В., КноРус, 2026.
The aesthetics of journalism is substantiated as a necessary component in the professional training of specialists in audiovisual media. The factors and trends of historical and current changes in the aesthetics of journalism are presented, and the aesthetic practices of audiovisual journalism are characterized in terms of their social functioning. Criteria for aesthetic evaluation are ...
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Logvinova N., Russian linguistics 2026 Vol. 50 Article 11
This paper presents the first in-depth corpus-based study of a previously overlooked syntactic variation in Russian: the competition between juxtapositional (Nominative) and possessive-like (Genitive) encoding of the second noun (the term) in specificational constructions (e.g., ponjatie čest’ (notion.NOM honor.NOM) vs. ponjatie česti (notion.NOMhonor.GEN) ‘the notion of honor’). While typological research has established cross-linguistic preferences for one encoding strategy over another, intralinguistic variation ...
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Gorina O. G., Kucherenko S., Larisa K. et al., St. Petersburg: Asterion, 2026.
This textbook is an integrated teaching and learning resource for English for Specific Purposes (ESP) in the field of economics of tangible and intangible assets. Its design employs (i) modern corpus linguistics methods, including frequency analysis and keyword extraction based on authentic texts reflecting current trends in professional discourse, and (ii) artificial intelligence technologies for ...
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Маленко Маро Янович, Галактика медиа: журнал медиа исследований 2025 Т. 7 № 2 С. 187–208
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Balakina Y. V., Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Литературоведение, журналистика 2026 Т. 31 № 1 С. 163–174
The phenomenon of digital social photography is explored as a product of contemporary social media practices. It analyses the transformation of the role of photography in the digital age, where it functions not merely as a tool for recording reality, but also as an active agent in the process of meaning-making. The study relies on ...
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Zolyan S., Ilyin M., Teslya A. et al., Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2025 Vol. 95 No. 1 P. 2–18
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Aliev R. T., Праксема. Проблемы визуальной семиотики 2026 № 1(47) С. 46–74
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Вьюнова В. А., Kozhemyakin E., Знак: проблемное поле медиаобразования 2026 Т. 1 № 59 С. 15–26
This article is devoted to the possibilities of semiotic analysis of the value aspects of advertising creatives. The main emphasis is placed on the study of the potential of the semiotic square of A.J. Greimas as a method of analyzing advertising materials. Despite its powerful analytical potential, this tool is rather poorly used in advertising research, ...
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Alexandrova E. V., Лаврентьева Н. В., В кн.: In Umbra. Демонология как семиотическая система. Альманах № 12Вып. 12.: М.: Издательский центр Российского государственного гуманитарного университета, 2025. С. 31–84.
Нож — частый атрибут демонов — в Египте наряду с огнём выступал одной из базовых метафор опасностей иного мира, что выражается в синонимичности таких регионов как «Озеро Ножей» и «Озеро Пламени» [Altenmüller 1966]. Мы рассмотрим использование этой метафоры в конструировании образов обитателей иного мира. Как в изобразительном, так и в текстовом (имена) аспекте они зачастую ...
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Nikolaeva Y., Вопросы языкознания 2024 № 2 С. 143 –158
Взаимодействие тела и среды посредством невербальных знаков и присвоение этимзнакам лингвистических обозначений определяет переход от простого существования к семи-отическому уровню. Один из основных принципов этого подхода заключается в следующем:тело как инструмент взаимодействия с окружающей средой и другими субъектами служит основой для оценки всех контекстов и событий прежде всего как благоприятных (для существо-вания и развития организма), ...
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Bobrova A., Философия. Журнал Высшей школы экономики 2025 Т. 9 № 1 С. 211–228
The paper focuses on such a new phenomenon in the theory of argumentation as vi- sual argument. It presents the peculiarities of the use of images in argumentative purposes and points out the key differences between pictures and verbal arguments. Considering arguments through the lens of the logical approach helps to talk about the possibilities ...
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