10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SIGNIFICATORY»
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significatory in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Truth and Narrative: The Untimely Thoughts of ʻAyn Al-Quḍāt ...
When a word signifies more than one signified, it is called either mushtarik ("multi
-significatory") or mutawati ("compli-significatory"), or mutashabih ("simul-
significatory). An example of a "multi-significatory" word is mushtari, which means
both ...
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The Spectacular Modern Woman: Feminine Visibility in the 1920s
Butler's "scene" of signification encompasses all formations of language and
meaning.12 I have been pondering the nature of the significatory scene which,
through the repetitive acts carried out within it, becomes the site of the subject's ...
Baptism and the Supper are significatory acts, "signs of the nearness of God."451
Both, as signs, effect what they signify. But they do so only in the form and on the
level of signs. As we shall see, this is connected with the fact that the fellowship ...
Wolfhart Pannenberg, 1998
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Jazz in the Time of the Novel: The Temporal Politics of ...
The Temporal Politics of American Race and Culture Bruce Barnhart. man, this
aporia is a “significatory lack,” lynching's response to which she outlines in the
following statement: “in choosing death and accompanying it with the most
extreme ...
Thus, what appears likely is that particular and already significatory sounds
became renderable in the new sound-meaning system. A particular cry of alarm
could be equally rendered verbally as "Snake!" for example, or a particular shriek
...
Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, 2010
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The Constitutionalization of the Global Corporate Sphere?
For instance, Talcott Parsons also argues that money and power are '
performative' in that they help secure social cohesion: they perform a 'function' for
social cohesion, both being (positive) significatory systems—rather than (
negative) ...
Grahame F. Thompson, 2012
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Interpreting the Present: Six Philosophical Essays
order as inhabitable text, as the instrumentalist-utilitarian world-book, is precisely
the absolutization of the artifact as significatory of the whole process of artifaction
and consumption. The forms of the Book of Technology are sign-artifacts ...
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History of Islamic Philosophy
He maintains that "since the discourse (sukhan) of the intermediary sources (
wdsilan) is multi-significatory (mushtarik al-dildlah) to two or three signifieds, only
one of which is right and the others wrong, then whoever does not know this will
fall ...
Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Oliver Leaman, 1996
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Philosophy and Memory Traces: Descartes to Connectionism
There is a connection between mind and world, but it is 'precisely that which is
proper to cognition: significatory, not resemblance or causation' (1984a: 30, see
also 1996: 183-214). Yolton acknowledges that Descartes' brief hints at a '
doctrine ...
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Notes of Cases in the Ecclesiastical & Maritime Courts: ...
So the case stood, without anything being done, till the 11th May, when " the
defendant gave in an affidavit to verify the averment in the notice served upon the
Court, and Evans prayed that Letters Significatory against him might issue;" that
is, ...
Great Britain. Courts, Thomas Thornton, 1843
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SIGNIFICATORY»
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Israel Lund's Analog JPEGs
These basic components of the image detach from it and stand out as dumb units of “pure” information, communicating nothing but significatory potential. «Brooklyn Rail, Oct 14»
Silins, Kampe, Milling, Wottrich, ROH/Tate
The 'big things' of Der fliegende Holländer are thought through and staged most vividly on the level of the music, which is given significatory power through the ... «Musical Criticism, Oct 11»
Hay Festival Segovia: lives of the writers
The conversation continued in this way – surreal, encoded, full of mute significatory hand gestures and over the heads of hundreds of people – for some time, ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Sep 11»
Roger Scruton: Understanding Music: Philosophy and Interpretation …
Now I would be the first to complain that much recent music scholarship has focussed almost exclusively on social context and on the significatory aspect of the ... «Musical Criticism, Mar 10»
