Readings in Numanities

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Communications

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Semiotics as a Proposal for a Numanistic Educational Programme

      • Alin Olteanu

      Pages 3-17

   3. Dreams and Narratives: From Psychoanalysis to Contemporary Imaginaries

      • Simona Stano

      Pages 19-28

   4. The Use of Semiotics in Content Analysis: The Case of Belarusian Patriotic Advertising

      • Yuliya Martinavichene

      Pages 29-47

   5. Temporal Deixis as a Participation Marker: A Case Study of the Russian News Media

      • Diana Burbienė, Marija Sabaliauskienė

      Pages 49-65

   6. Lithuanian Viewers’ Attitude Towards Dubbed Animated Films

      • Indrė Koverienė, Danguolė Satkauskaitė

      Pages 67-84

   7. Eating Diversity, Creating Identity: Translations of the Culinary Code Between Creativity and Misunderstandings

      • Simona Stano

      Pages 85-92

3. Arts

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93

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   2. A Semiotic Analysis of the Songs Calvi Aravi and Rey Don Alonso in Francisco de Salina’s de Musica Libri Septem: The Construction and Deconstruction of Cultural Identities in the Transition Between Muslim and Catholic Spain

      • Ricardo Nogueira de Castro Monteiro

      Pages 95-113

   3. Meaning, Identity Constructions and Deconstructions in the Song/Poem “Swift Bird”, by the Andalusian Medieval Poetess Wallada Bint al-Mustakfi

      • Ricardo Nogueira de Castro Monteiro

      Pages 115-129

   4. Artistic Research as a Quest of the New Knowledge. On Practice-Based Research in Acting

      • Ramunė Balevičiūtė

      Pages 131-143

   5. The Musicality of Literature and the Semiotics of Music

      • Rūta Brūzgienė

      Pages 145-157

   6. Music Performer as Medium, Star and Product: A Socio-Semiotic Investigation

      • Lina Navickaitė-Martinelli

      Pages 159-173

4. Technologies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175

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   2. Title Influence on Musical Meaning: A Socio-Psychological Experiment

      • Ulrika Varankaitė

      Pages 177-196

   3. Reconstructing Self-Identity: Local, Global and Technological Drives

      • Vilmantė Liubinienė

      Pages 197-208

   4. Communication of Cultures by Means of Localisation

      • Dainora Maumevičienė

      Pages 209-231

5. Societies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 233-233

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   2. Determinologisation of Lithuanian and English Technical Terms: The Case of Apparatus

      • Jurgita Mikelionienė, Aušra Berkmanienė

      Pages 235-246

This unique book gathers articles from the numanistic perspective of multidisciplinarity and innovation, connected by three main theoretical interests or overarching themes: music, semiotics and translation. Offering an eclectic collection of innovative papers that address such topics as culture, musicology, art consumption, meaning, codes and national identities, to name a few, it has a broad appeal across the humanities and social sciences. The contributing authors draw on various schools and methodologies, including psychology, psychoanalysis, social semiotics, semiotic modelling, deconstruction and cultural analysis.
 
By approaching established themes in new and challenging ways, this highly engaging book has
the potential to advance the state of the art in various topics. It appeals to all scholars investigating cultural identity, linguistics and translation, music consumption, performance, semiotic theories and various intersections of these and related topics.

• Art Consumption
• Musical Meaning
• National Identities
• Translation Studies
• Multi-disciplinarity
• Belarus patriotic advertising
• Temporal deixis
• Dubbed animated films
• Translations of the culinary code
• Andalusian Medieval poetess
• The New Knowledge
• Musicality of Literature
• Semiotics of Music
• Socio-semiotic investigation
• The Case of Apparatus
• Semiotic spatial modeling

• The Gheorghe Dima Academy of Music, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

  Oana Andreica

• International Semiotics Institute, Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas, Lithuania

  Alin Olteanu

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