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The Semantics of Artefacts. How We Give Meaning to the Things We Produce and Use

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dc.creatorSiefkes, Martin
dc.date.accessioned2021-08-04T12:30:39Z
dc.date.available2021-08-04T12:30:39Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractBroadly defined, every result of a human action is an artefact. In a narrower sense, the term is used for material things resulting from human actions; in this sense, all artefacts together form the realm of material culture. Although meanings play an important role in our daily interaction with artefacts, they have never been treated in a comprehensive and systematic fashion. In de-sign theory, cultural semiotics, anthropology, and archaeology, different ap-proaches to the semantics of artefacts have been taken. The article draws on these findings to build a generalized approach to artefact semantics that con-centrates on the processes in which artefacts are connected with meanings (cf. section 3). In section 0 seven principles of semantization are proposed: semanti-zation through (1) frame connection, (2) style, (3) iconicity, (4) individual ex-periences, (5) cultural allusions, (6) connection to social groups, (7) specific contexts. These principles explain semantization as causal process depending on certain conditions. In section 4.2, a notation system for representing proc-esses of semantization is proposed that combines logical and semiotic nota-tion. For each of the seven principles of semantization, the proposed notation and one example are given.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/16556
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/17436
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherHerbert von Halem
dc.publisher.placeKöln
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:1614-0885
dc.relation.ispartofseriesIMAGE. Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Bildwissenschaft
dc.rights.urihttps://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
dc.subjectArtefaktde
dc.subjectSemantikde
dc.subjectAnthropologiede
dc.subjectKulturde
dc.subjectBedeutungde
dc.subjectartefacten
dc.subjecthumanen
dc.subjectsemanticsen
dc.subjectmaterial cultureen
dc.subjectsemioticsen
dc.subjectanthropologyen
dc.subjectarchaeologyen
dc.subjectmeaningen
dc.subject.ddcddc:704
dc.titleThe Semantics of Artefacts. How We Give Meaning to the Things We Produce and Useen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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local.coverpage2021-08-04T14:36:42
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttp://www.gib.uni-tuebingen.de/image/ausgaben-3?function=fnArticle&showArticle=218
local.source.epage102
local.source.issue2
local.source.issueTitleThemenheft zu Heft 16
local.source.spage67
local.source.volume8

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