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University of Tartu
Sign Systems Studies
volume 26
Editors: Peeter Torop
Michail Lotman
Kalevi Kull
TARTU UNIVERSITY
PRESS
Tartu 1998
Address of the editorial office:
Department of Semiotics
University of Tartu
Tiigi St. 78,
Tartu 50410, Estonia
e-mail: [email protected]
Acknowledgments:
Irina Avramets
Jelena Grigorjeva
Ann Malts
Vile Parli
Anti Randviir
Silvi Salupere
Ulvi Urm
The publication has been supported by the Estonian Science Foundation
and the Estonian Ministry of Education
© University of Tartu, 1998
ISSN 1406-4243
ISBN 9985-56-371-9
Tartu University Press
Tiigi 78, Tartu 50410, Estonia
Order No. 370
Table of contents
Peeter Torop
Semiotics in Tartu 9
Semiootika Tartus 14
Thomas A. Sebeok
The Estonian connection 20
ая кснотсЭь.зявс Резюме 39
Eesti-side. Kokkuvote 40
General semiotics
Marcel Danesi
The "dimensionality principle" and semiotic analysis 42
"и"тсип онцьнлаинроиПснемид ий ксеи читоиз.имлаенас
Резюме 60
"Dimensionaalsuse printsiip" ja semiootiline analiius.
Kokkuvote . 60
Semiotics of culture
Юрий Лотман
та охОза и.мамьдев ка итоимха еаСртс 61
Witchhunts: semiotics of fear. Summary 80
Noiajaht. Hirmu semiootika. Kokkuvote 81
Goran Sonesson
The concept of text in cultural semiotics 83
ия цпецнта оскКетв ке итоы.ирмуетсьлук Резюме 111
Teksti moiste kultuurisemiootikas. Kokkuvote 113
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Eero Tarasti
On post-colonial semiotics 115
ой ньлаО ие.нкиотлоиомекстсоп Резюме 133
Postkoloniaalsest semiootikast. Kokkuvdte 134
Пеэтер Тороп
цы инада роГверепий к(сечитоимескт оеипцсаосоимес
ки ита)довереп 136
The limits of translation: the socio-semiotic aspect of trans
lation semiotics. Summary 149
Tolkepiirid (tolkesemiootika sotsiosemiootiline aspekt).
Kokkuvdte 150
Елена Григорьева
во тснартсорПи мя ервга рубретеПс ки чотия нерз
ии голофиморким 151
St. Peterburg's time and space from the micromythological
viewpoint. Summary 183
Peterburi aeg ja ruum mikromiitoloogia vaatepunktist.
Kokkuvdte 184
Галина Пономарева
ца инарГи ка оловорп 186
Border and the barbed wire. Summary 199
Piir ja okastraat. Kokkuvdte 200
Semiotics of language and literature
Михаил Лотман
О ия нах емежтослиссохитс(но невтсещумиерпна етам
ле аиго рокснотсэи го окссура)хитс 201
On systems of versification (mostly in Russian and Estonian
poetry). Summary 253
Varsisiisteemidest (peamiselt eesti ja vene varsi naitel).
Kokkuvdte 254
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Юлле Пярли
ие ксечины тисмирвегтниЛак кпы ортв ии зэоп
И. го оксдорБ 256
Linguistic terms as tropes in J. Brodsky's poetry. Summary ... 272
Lingvistilised terminid kui troobid J. Brodsky luules.
Kokkuvote 273
J$rgen Dines Johansen
A semiotic mapping of the study of literature 274
ая ксия ефчаиртгооитмраеки кСуано е.рутаретил Резюме 296
Kirjandusteaduse semiootiline kartograafia. Kokkuvote 297
Сусанна Витт
"ер тсаМи а"тираграМ — ый ньлартаен?тамор 299
Master and Margarita — a Theatrical Novel? Summary 317
"Meister ja Margarita" — teatriromaan? Kokkuvote 318
Михаил Шелякин
О ых вокях аинцзкнука фдяия рноапводелых смичанз
иц нидека ызя(К ке итоой инмеьслачаи)инцизоп 319
On the signific function of the order of meaningful units
in language: On semiotics of first position. Summary 330
Keele tahenduslike tihikute jarjestuse margilistest
funktsioonidest: algpositsiooni semiootikast. Kokkuvote 330
Eco- and sociosemiotics
Win fried No th
Ecosemiotics 332
а.китоимесок ЭРезюме 343
Okosemiootika. Kokkuvote 343
KaleviKull
Semiotic ecology: different natures in the semiosphere 344
ая ксечитя:оигиолмокеэС ые нзарды орирпв ре ефсоимес
Резюме 369
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Semiootiline okoloogia: erinevad loodused semiosfaaris
Kokkuvdte 370
Jeff Bernard
Conceptions of life and man — basics of "social commu
nications" (as exemplified by the "charter on the
(re)presentation of disabled people in the media") 372
ии цпецка неовоКлечи ни зиж— ва онсо"ой ньлаицосмок
"иицакинум: на ре емирп"ии траХ(-ер ) ии цатнезерапвни
ов дилв ах втсд"ой еивриосцсаскианмуммок. Резюме 390
Moisted elu ja inimene — 'uhiskondliku suhtluse" alused.
Naide "Hartast puuetega inimeste esit(l)usest meedias" naitel.
Kokkuvdte 391
Anti Randviir
Sign as an object of social semiotics: evolution of carto
graphic semiosis 392
ак нЗий ксечитак оит:кмкеесъбооицос ия цюловэ
го оксеча.исифзаоригмоестрак Резюме 414
Mark sotsiosemiootika objektina: kartograafilise semioosise
evolutsioon. Kokkuvdte 415
Book Reviews
Sergey V. Chebanov
Totality of semiosphere. Review: Jesper Hoffmeyer, Signs of
Meaning in the Universe. Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, 1996 417
Wolfgang Drechsler
The philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer. Review: The Philo
sophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer. The Library of Living Philo
sophers, vol. XXIV. Lewis Edwin Hahn, ed. Chicago and
La Salle, IL: Open Court, 1997 425
Contributors 437
Semiotics in Tartu
Peeter Torop
Once upon a time... This is how the stories about ancient times start,
although finally they bring us back to our own time: ... and they lived
happily ever after.
It is the year 1998. Seven years ago, in the foreword to the summary
of contents of semiotic publications of Tartu, Professor Y. Lotman
cherished a hope that "the Tartu-Moscow School of semiotics has not
exhausted its academic potential yet and is capable of expressing ideas
that would be unexpected to the adversaries of this trend as well as to
its proponents" (Lotman 1991:92). Six years ago the last, 25th
volume of the series that in English and Estonian bore the title Works
on Semiotics and in Russian Works on Sign Systems was published. At
the last moment we managed to include on the reverse side of the title
page a note about the death of Prof. Yuri Lotman's wife Zara Mints
and to dedicate the volume to her memory. In the same summer
(1992), a meeting was held at Yuri Lotman's home, and the Depart
ment of Semiotics was founded. However, in the autumn of 1993
Prof. Y. Lotman followed his beloved wife.
In 1994, in Moscow, memoirs about the Tartu-Moscow School
and about Lotman were gathered into a joint publication (Koshelev
1994). In 1995, also in Moscow, the first Lotman Collection was pub
lished (Permyakov 1995), and in 1997 T. Nikolayeva compiled a volu
minous retrospective collection From the Papers of the Moscow
Circle of Semiotics (Nikolayeva 1997). The title of the collection
tactfully hints at the role of Moscow in the development of semiotics.
Once upon a time... Not only in Tartu, not only Lotman.
We should remember that the Tartu-Moscow School was like an invi
sible college without any fixed institutional relations. The name of the
school does not express all its essential characteristics. Historically we
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should speak about the Moscow-Tartu School, as the birth of the
school can be rightfully connected with the 1962 conference in Mos
cow and the 1964 conference in Tartu. In the academic sense it would
be even more correct to use the name Tartu-Moscow-Leningrad
School. For example, in B. Uspenski's opinion, the success of the
school relied on combining the linguistic tradition of Moscow and the
literary tradition of Leningrad (St Petersburg) (Uspenski 1987: 20-
21). For Lotman, at whose birth the city was called Petrograd and
during his studies Leningrad, the latter tradition associated, besides
formalists, also with V. Propp, V. Zhirmunski, G. Gukovski, O. Frei-
denberg, and to some extent with M. Bakhtin (Lotman 1991: 91). As
the names of several predecessors of the school were in disgrace, the
members of the school considered it essential to determine their task
as tying up the broken threads in the history of scholarship in Russia.
Later, D. Segal called this principle semiotic historicism (Segal 1993:
32).
It is also justified to speak about the Tartu School. The series of
Works on Semiotics was published In Tartu. Its foundation was
established by Lotman's first semiotic book Lectures on Structural
Poetics (1964). The next volume (1965) was already a collection of
articles by several authors. It attempted to reflect the structure of the
conference held at Tartu University sports centre at Kaariku — a
summer school which proved to be a short-lived tradition. The col
lection presented introductory remarks from the editorial board: "The
range of problems, which should be dealt with while viewing myth,
folklore, customs, literature and figurative art as modelling sign
systems, is so diverse, the number of unsolved questions so big that
the participants in the summer school did not always reach unanimous
agreement. The editorial board does not consider the artificial unifi
cation of viewpoints justified" (Lotman 1965: 6). On the one hand,
this stressed equality between colleagues and the opportunity for
dialogue. On the other hand, this was resistance to the levelling
politicisation of research in the Soviet Union. Respect for each
author's style and acceptance of their opinions became the leading
principle while editing the collections of the series. Y. Lotman has
recalled this as a struggle: "... a struggle was going on to prevent the
unity of scholarly research from destroying individuality", "as a part
of culture, research has to preserve individuality" (Lotman 1993: 42).
Naturally, the development of this kind of research was obstructed,
and the history of summer schools remained short. The summer