Bujar Hoxha
South East European University, Communication sciences, Faculty Member
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Communication sciences, Semiotics And Language, Visual Semiotics, Media and Cultural Studies, Philosophy, Anthropology, and 30 moreCommunication, Art History, Cultural Studies, Languages and Linguistics, Music, Critical Theory, Cultural Theory, Visual Studies, Comparative Literature, Aesthetics, Philosophy Of Language, Visual Culture, Cultural Semiotics, Charles S. Peirce, Semiotics Of Culture, History of semiotics, Socio-semiotics, Sociosemiotics, Literature, Visual Arts, Social Semiotics, Semiotica, Semiótica, John Dewey, Cognitive Semiotics, Cognitive Linguistics, Felix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze, Autism Spectrum Disorders, and Engineering edit
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A novel published in 2006, treating intellectuals lost in time and space within times of modern trends and technologies. Its title in English is: 'Ludvig Van and me..( we were alone)." Beethoven's reference is, needless to say, metaphoric... more
A novel published in 2006, treating intellectuals lost in time and space within times of modern trends and technologies. Its title in English is: 'Ludvig Van and me..( we were alone)." Beethoven's reference is, needless to say, metaphoric trying to disclose lunacy of modern discoveries and impossibility of human expressiveness.
The book is a novel published in 1997 in Albanian. "The Journey to Olimpus" treats a family life of a professional musician named Miranda Kasapi, ( a pianist),- the main character, - and all her effort towards a professional life. I have... more
The book is a novel published in 1997 in Albanian. "The Journey to Olimpus" treats a family life of a professional musician named Miranda Kasapi, ( a pianist),- the main character, - and all her effort towards a professional life. I have tried, out of my imagination, to describe emotions, difficulties etc., an artist has during a preparation of interpreting a concert of classical music in areas where such activities are still not usual.
The book contains some of Prof. Eco's lectures at the University of Harvard ( 1992-93), on the issues of narration, the modern conceptualization of time, as well as new techniques of writing. The author takes examples from famous works of... more
The book contains some of Prof. Eco's lectures at the University of Harvard ( 1992-93), on the issues of narration, the modern conceptualization of time, as well as new techniques of writing. The author takes examples from famous works of art and has thus given an enormous contribution not only to the semiotic field in general, but as well to the newest theories of literature.
The aim of this chapter is to demonstrate the interdisciplinarity of the semiotic method in the context of the interrelationships of various sorts of arts. Instancing the "duality" or the "dyadic" phenomenon in semiology in the specific... more
The aim of this chapter is to demonstrate the interdisciplinarity of the semiotic method in the context of the interrelationships of various sorts of arts. Instancing the "duality" or the "dyadic" phenomenon in semiology in the specific sense of the words, the author will exemplify the omnipresence of the semiotic method through existential semiotics. Not only has this been demonstrated by Russian Formalism, but it is even today applicable in the context of the semiotics of passions as well as in existential semiotics.
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Les arts du spectacle dans le processus de formation de l'indicateur] Bujar HOXHA *
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The present paper aims to elaborate on some of the communicational deficits in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Treating autism semiotically entails in itself a multitude of semiotic processes. We may evidence these with:... more
The present paper aims to elaborate on some of the communicational deficits in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Treating autism semiotically entails in itself a multitude of semiotic processes. We may evidence these with: the process of intermediation in communicating abilities, a special sort of reaction, as well as inter-subjective feedback within frames of the communication with the other, and/or significant other. In my view, besides, an autistic child conceptualizes his/her social reality through sensory-deficits which look unusual to the rest of the world. Owing to his/her pre-existential signs, which belong to the organic nature of the problematics, such children transform such sorts of communication into passionate tantrums and/or meltdowns, through their repetitive and stereotyped behavior. This thus makes the problematics semiotically relevant. The semiotics of passions [such as conceptualized in (Greimas and Fontanille 1993)]:, as well as existential semiotics [see: (Tarasti 2000);(Tarasti 2015)], deduces a semantic taxonomy aimed at a process of semiosis of an unspoken language, thus making visible the similarities and/or differences between a typical and/or atypical sort of behavior (or: between autistic and non-autistic "worlds"). In conclusion, the "signs in action" transform themselves into meaningful semantic units in frames of the "physiologically" conceptualized actions by autistic children.
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How does the Parthenon stand for democracy and why? What is it that makes the Greek pillars so appealing to modern democracies? Is it for the Golden Ratio as a system of rational/harmonious/human proportions, and if so, is Democracy a... more
How does the Parthenon stand for democracy and why? What is it that makes the Greek pillars so appealing to modern democracies? Is it for the Golden Ratio as a system of rational/harmonious/human proportions, and if so, is Democracy a civilizational Golden Ratio or just an eye/mind spectacle/manipulation? To interpret the iconography of the Parthenon related to modern democracies a metaphor of translation will be applied, concerning the multiple transpositions the building has evolved through. This, in particular, refers to an architecture work of art as a "symptom which expresses itself in a countless variety of other symptoms" (Panofsky) related to broader cultural contexts. Further "translation" will take place in the double movement of purification and contamination, specificity and hybridity, among semiotic and iconological analysis-the word and image dialectic.
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Recent research in semiotics has foreseen analyzable units on the basis of the context instead of the text. In addition to language-based and psychologically-based semiotics (Saussure 1959), today semiotics has introduced the... more
Recent research in semiotics has foreseen analyzable units on the basis of the context instead of the text. In addition to language-based and psychologically-based semiotics (Saussure 1959), today semiotics has introduced the epistemological grounds on visual signs as well. My aim in this paper shall be to introduce the acting subject into such a context, which in my opinion can transform the states of visual expressions, as shown in their various shapes, from one to another. In such a context I shall exemplify the applicability of the subjectivized objects for the purpose of interpreting images (exemplifying thus concrete works of art) which can produce passions as semantic results (A. J. Greimas and Fontanille 1993). The questions which I advance shall be the following: how can such passionate taxonomies, transformed into feelings and seen as feedback information, interact socially? And due to the openness of the work of art, as Eco (1962) claims, where do the limits of visual artistic expressions' interpretability lie?
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Many countries throughout the globe function in a system that allows the usage of more than one language. Such a multilingual social reality's construction , especially in societies like the one in which I am living, is perceived in many... more
Many countries throughout the globe function in a system that allows the usage of more than one language. Such a multilingual social reality's construction , especially in societies like the one in which I am living, is perceived in many different ways: attempting thus to provide for the process of differentiating identity's oneness and sameness into various cultural subcategories, which already represent new realities (and/or otherness in terms of identity's conceptua-lization). Due to newly created social realities, semiotics naturally discusses the differences and/or oppositions that can contribute to various cultures' mutual exclusivity or inclusivity, in terms of various heterogeneous " transformations, " which would thus overcome dualities, and be viewed as single acts of signs, or as a result of a process of singularization of their constituent components. I shall also attempt using a semiotic style that may enact a semiotics of action, grounded on the semiotics of passions, through a way of producing semantic taxonomies as pride versus humiliation, hegemony versus subordination, etc., obtainable due to disjunctive and/or conjunctive semiotic relations such as contextualization versus de-contextualization.
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The aim of the present paper is to examine some recent semiotic paradigms in relation to the usage of multiple languages. Multilingualism, particularly in countries like mine, not only includes the linguistics of science, but is indeed... more
The aim of the present paper is to examine some recent semiotic paradigms in relation to the usage of multiple languages. Multilingualism, particularly in countries like mine, not only includes the linguistics of science, but is indeed influenced by other external factors, such as social, geographic, ethnic and political factors. My task in this contribution shall be to present some of the semantic consequences of multiple language usage in Macedonia, which can be conceptualized as passional configurations. I shall intend here by passions such lingual expressions which, due to their disproportionality of usage, can be represented as " rhizomes, " thus contributing to the heterogeneous nature of languages themselves. Greimasian passional configurations, in conclusion, shall render the oppositional meaning of determined expressions, which would help in solving a " conflictual situation " in semiotics and other related spheres.
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The aim of the present paper shall be to analyze determined semantic taxonomies of the main characters in Shakespeare's " Romeo and Juliet ". The focus shall be on rendering characters' actions passionate, due to a semiotics of action, as... more
The aim of the present paper shall be to analyze determined semantic taxonomies of the main characters in Shakespeare's " Romeo and Juliet ". The focus shall be on rendering characters' actions passionate, due to a semiotics of action, as described in Greimas and Fontanille (1993). To my opinion, universal themes such as love, hatred, death, etc. can be subject to a passionate configuration of different characters perspective in action. This shall also be due to the recent definition of semiotics as a cognitive science on meaning interpretation. In conclusion, characters' passions resulting as final semantic entities shall give this study an empirical account for at least two reasons: first to argument semiotics' importance of artistic expressivity and second, to argument semiotics' epistemological significance besides its ontological one. " The signs' way " as Deely (2009) states, gives us the possibility of treating each character's perspective separately, thus rendering the signification process for each sign taken as an example separately.
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The fact of the multi-dimensionality of semiotics is an issue that offers more possibilities: either seen in the sense of their precise foreseeing, providing for, or discussing a scientific phenomenon, or otherwise, seen in the shape of... more
The fact of the multi-dimensionality of semiotics is an issue that offers more possibilities: either seen in the sense of their precise foreseeing, providing for, or discussing a scientific phenomenon, or otherwise, seen in the shape of its multiple formations, such as in the case of overcoming its rules. My aim in this paper is to make an attempt at proposing an hypothesis that may be overcoming another one, thus expressing ambiguity instead of precision, a metaphor instead a mono-semantic lexeme, or a complex instead of a simple phenomenon (thus, naming the different semiotic realities). This can be performed by representing at least some of the approaches to semiotics as a discipline: either seeing it as an expression of clearing redundancies through oppositions, through processes of representation, or through life processes. Starting from language-based semio-tics, through scholars like Saussure and Jakobson, as well as through the Greimasian and Peirceian schools of semiotics, I have tried to exemplify what I have called semiotics of precision, on one hand, and what I have called a semiotics of imprecision, on the other. In the frames of such an exemplifying of these two approaches, I have tried to focus on the dichotomy between seeming and reality.
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This paper seeks to exemplify some of the intentional and unintentional nonverbal communication attempts expressed by children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) syndrome. It demonstrates that such interactions with the rest of the world... more
This paper seeks to exemplify some of the intentional and unintentional nonverbal communication attempts expressed by children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) syndrome. It demonstrates that such interactions with the rest of the world are trying to establish some semiotic functions, in an effort behaviorally to overcome the children's disability. The author's aim is to analyze such a paradoxical way of communicational interaction of such a subject vs. a given objectively perceivable reality, thus attempting to reveal paradoxical social contexts. The focus is on interpersonal communication abilities and/or disabilities, thus allowing semiotically distinguishable units as an object of analysis. The problem of mental disorders, such as ASD, requires a multi‐dimensional approach—e.g., biological, medical, and other related fields. In conclusion, by applying a semiotic analysis, it becomes necessary to communicate with such children in a whole new way which, by processes of transformation, can bring about a state of awareness of a paradoxical and/or abnormal phenomenon.
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proçedurat e mëtejme deduktive (A. J. Greimas, 1973)), kundërshtohet, apo është në raport kontradikte me një situatë reale në esencë, që është paraprakisht e vendosur nga faktori kohë, (që përsëri nuk ësthë i definuar siç duhet), dhe që... more
proçedurat e mëtejme deduktive (A. J. Greimas, 1973)), kundërshtohet, apo është në raport kontradikte me një situatë reale në esencë, që është paraprakisht e vendosur nga faktori kohë, (që përsëri nuk ësthë i definuar siç duhet), dhe që përfundimisht përfaqëson zhgënjim në raportet ndër-njerëzore. Fjalët kyçe: semiotika, identiteti, pasionet, interpretimi, semantika.
Abstrakt: Teksti në fjalë tenton të elaborojë disa nga principet teoretike të clat potencialisht çojnë drejt definimit të qasjeve semiotike. Qëllimi im është që të vendos mundësinë e limitit ose kufinjëve të metodës analitike semiotike.... more
Abstrakt: Teksti në fjalë tenton të elaborojë disa nga principet teoretike të clat potencialisht çojnë drejt definimit të qasjeve semiotike. Qëllimi im është që të vendos mundësinë e limitit ose kufinjëve të metodës analitike semiotike. Duke filluar nga proçeset e komunikimit, qëllimi im është të shpjegoj kodimin e relaitetit të jashtëm në një realitet të ri (në rastin e fushës së gjuhësisë), si dhe të tentoj ta tejkaloj saktësinë e semiotikës (në fushën e arteve). Pyetjet të cilave tentoj t' u përgjigjem për shembull janë dikotomia sosyriane (natyra e saj e objektivitetit apo subjektivitetit), dhe implikemet e saj praktike në semiotikë. Do të përpiqem gjithashtu të marr shembuj përmes semiotikës së pasioneve (përmes shembullit të Romeos dhe Zhylietës të Sehkspirit, dhe baletit me të njëjtin emër të S. Prokofievit), si një mjet që kontribuon në proçesin e sinjifikimit. Si përfundim, qoftë e marrë si shkencë që studjon objektin (apo që shepreh objektivitet), apo si shjkencë që st...
The book represents a comparative study between the morphological category of articles in Albanian and English, with examples from the Macedonian language. The emphasis is especially on the proper nouns ( and names), which in Albanian use... more
The book represents a comparative study between the morphological category of articles in Albanian and English, with examples from the Macedonian language. The emphasis is especially on the proper nouns ( and names), which in Albanian use the definite articles: that not being the case in English. My aim is to establish some of the typology differences and similarities among the languages concerned.
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The paper (article) contains theoretical reflections on the concept of time within frames of narration. How many time flow does a work of art have? What factors are decisive in overcoming linguistic exactness. Examples are given from some... more
The paper (article) contains theoretical reflections on the concept of time within frames of narration. How many time flow does a work of art have? What factors are decisive in overcoming linguistic exactness. Examples are given from some kinds of artistic expression.
I have tried to concentrate on the morphological and lexical contents of the category of article in both languages. My main emphasis is on the distinction between their pre- and post-positiveness in terms of their morphological behavior... more
I have tried to concentrate on the morphological and lexical contents of the category of article in both languages. My main emphasis is on the distinction between their pre- and post-positiveness in terms of their morphological behavior and usage. The examples from the Macedonian language, are taken for reasons of presenting similarities and differences in the frames of both languages in question.
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The present paper shall aim to demonstrate that a narration process is a semiotic tool, which, among other tasks, serves to execute a process of signification. My effort shall range from factual "stories" and "retold stories" to fictional... more
The present paper shall aim to demonstrate that a narration process is a semiotic tool, which, among other tasks, serves to execute a process of signification. My effort shall range from factual "stories" and "retold stories" to fictional ones. This is so because semiotics treats various "realities", from which some may be realistically occurring, while others may represent imaginative "facts" invented by authors. One of the differences between the two, as Eco has also pointed out, is the factor of "time", which is both semiotically and philosophically relevant. The purpose of this text is also to demonstrate that narration can be conceived of in multiple sorts of "times", out of which only one we can physically live (above all, as one of the differences between artistic creation and real-time narration). A "fictive reality" relates to artistic creativities that are an object to their semiotic shaping and interpretation. In conclusion, one can state that interpretative semiotics is competent for this vision and relevant for the method's future development.
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The present text shall elaborate on some semiotic principles designated by Umberto Eco. I aim to focus on his theory, which pertains to interpretation. Even though Eco claims that "semiotics is a science of lying", in my opinion,... more
The present text shall elaborate on some semiotic principles designated by Umberto Eco. I aim to focus on his theory, which pertains to interpretation. Even though Eco claims that "semiotics is a science of lying", in my opinion, throughout his theory, one can disclose the "enigma" that semiotics poses, especially in artistic creation. Through Eco's encoding and decoding processes, the present text shall attempt to reach the point of interpretation by exemplifying it to demonstrate disclosing the truth and "post-truth" in various cultural and phenomenological circumstances. In other words: "artistic realities" of various sorts show a different way of a "fictive reality" as shown in Eco, which is a fact that argues the omnipresence of the process of semiosis.
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An interesting review by Raymond Zimmer in response to my article.
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The present paper shall attempt to describe, analyze and elaborate some of the communicational deficits of the children with Autism Disorders Spectrum Syndrome (ASD), seen from the semiotic viewpoint. The focus shall be on the visual... more
The present paper shall attempt to describe, analyze and elaborate some of the communicational deficits of the children with Autism Disorders Spectrum Syndrome (ASD), seen from the semiotic viewpoint. The focus shall be on the visual capacities, [such as described in: (Grandin, 2008)] of the children with Autism, as well as on their ability to compensate their brain dysfunctionalities through technology. In the mentioned context, semiotics should attempt at disclosing the meaning of their " own world " , to the extent of rendering it passionate. I shall intend by " passions " the repetitive requests, complaints, their emotionality etc., as intermediated by other tools (and/or media), that can be exemplified as one of the ways of " reducing " their sensory-motor deficits. In conclusion, the semiotics of passions, such as described by Greimas and Fontanille(1993) shall attempt deducing semantic units which are applicable for such children's own " intended physiological context of behavior ". The results of " actions " performed by such individuals shall represent their own way of establishing a meta-communicative process. The deduced semantic units in terms of such children's behavior are changeable, therefore an object to intersubjective processes of transformation.