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The study "From words to images or from images to words?" is an application of Media and Communication field, Literature and Film Studies in particular. It analyses the short story "Tinerețe fără de tinerețe" ("Youth Without Youth"), by Mircea Eliade, in the film adaptation of Francis Ford Coppola. Mircea Eliade is better known internationally as a historian of religions, more than as a writer of fantastic literature. In an era which prefers image to the written text, the transfer of it in images implies a high difficulty. The study focuses on the relationship between multiple meanings that both text and film write with means specific to each semiotic system and uses semiotic analysis and semantics as methods. Our intention was to make a comparative analysis between text and film, so as to identify the qualities of the text that the film cannot "write", but also the qualities of the film that the text could just suggest. The result is that even if fantasy, or better said fantastic, is fully developed in the written text, in filmography is rather redefined, because fantasy is born and lives both through written words and images. The film by F. F. Coppola restores faithfully the thematic universe of the text written by Mircea Eliade. The film preserves the historical reality, the story, the characters' names, the contexts and the symbols that give an unusual note to the text. Thus, the two languages, of filmography and literature, interfere and complement each other by realizing an example of semiotic complementarity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: symbolic representation is a specific, uniquely human form of objectification of the real world, a powerful means of communication activity of its reflectivity. Understanding of the phenomenon of sign representation, its modeling and the definition of the sign and its meaning depends on the sign language system and aspects of the language to be interpreted - dynamic or statistical, functional or structural aspects are taken as a basis. This article is an attempt to review the main components of the sign of the postmodern discourse. Methods: it should be noted that in modern science there is a tendency to revise the linguistic nature of the sign. Among all areas of linguistics there is a domination of the theoretical reflection, according to which all phenomena are regarded as the implementation of language text, discourse, narrative. Therefore, the full range of human culture is the sum of texts of the intertextuality. Consciousness also appears in the form of text that can be read by the relevant rules of grammar, or, by using the decryption of codes. Foreign linguists developed a new direction in science: the main emphasis is placed on the special role of the interpretation procedures and the importance of reading both cognitive and communicative signs, because any schematization of reality is a sign. The analysis of postmodern texts suggests that thought can not be just interpreted, but also disinterpreted in postmodern discourse. In these texts, the notion of the sign takes on a different, broader meaning than that of word mark. One of the important issues of semiotic analysis of postmodern discourse is to examine and identify the codes that exist to decipher all kinds of signs. Conclusions: thus, in the context of our research the quite relevant question is to define the temporal signs (linguistic or non-linguistic) to be expressed in the postmodern discourse. As is known, the category of 'time' appears as a symbol of life / death, meaning as a cultural reality, and so forth. In modern linguistics it is assumed that postmodern text is regulated by a set of codes: the linguistic code of natural language, the literary code that defines the connectivity of the text, the genre code, and metalanguage of a writer. In our view, the essence of postmodern discourse is a combination of mosaic codes, which include the following types of: linguistic, cultural, semiological, interactive, and metatextual codes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Use of Twitter for dissemination of real time is turning into a common practice in the aorld of journalism. The medium also offers a forum for the common man to make his views heard. This study is a social semiotic analysis of Top Tweets under two hashtags #Nirbhaya and # Delhigangrape. All the hashtags are related to the Rape Case that occurred in December of 20123 at New Delhi, the capital of India. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Brazilian Sign language (LIBRAS) is of visual-spatial manner with lexical items that denote objects, actions, abstract concepts and all the other possibilities of human language, necessary for Intellectual development and human traits. Some of the Sign Language's utterances are iconic and/or metaphorical signs. Such categorization is useful in scaffolding the learning of the language. But it also precludes a more complex meaning signification mechanism for those signs whose meanings only indirectly are derived from their apparent iconicity. Additionally, there is a lack of adequate corpus in Libras to be used by Natural Language Processing applications. A richer semiotic approach, along with an information system, is proposed to consider sign meaning attribution, knowledge production and computational treatment. A corpus was created to serve as basis for a richer Discourse Analysis of LIBRAS. A Case Study of the use of an information system to create corpus for future research as per the framework is presented with classroom utterances from students of graduate course in linguistics/LIBRAS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study investigates, using semiotic methods, media representation of business executives, specifically, that of Chief Executive Officers in the 50 largest corporations in the United States. We examine how these prominent executives are represented in two media outlets: one mainstream and one specialized business newspaper, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, respectively, in the 1980s. Our findings reveal that the representation of CEOs is constructed through two codes that define competing leadership characteristics. The primary code indicates that a valued executive is fast thinking, aggressive, risk taking, outgoing and outspoken, among other characteristics. The secondary code is mostly positively valued as well, describing CEOs as analytic, cautious, and introspective. The latter principal function is to underscore the superiority of the executive that is described through the first code. Executive representation does follow the same semiotic in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal which suggests that they are part of a same 'business' cultural system. However, the investigation gives insight, on how the representation subtly changes by media outlet in the context in which meaning creation is done. The Wall Street Journal, according to its character, provides a more extensive and technical foundation than The New York Times, which is geared towards a general audience. Our results demonstrate that representation of the dominant group of organizational leaders, CEOs of large corporations, is not homogeneous, as could be hypothesized. This offers insights for the analysis of media representation of other hegemonic groups by introducing nuances to their, sometimes conceptualized, monolithic nature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]