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Semiotics of culture

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The research field was of particular interest for the Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School (USSR). Linguists and semioticians from the Tartu School viewed culture as a hierarchical semiotic system consisting of a set of functions correlated to it, and linguistic codes that are used by social groups to maintain coherence. These codes are viewed as superstructures based on natural language, and here the ability of humans to symbolize is central.

Its study received a research basis also in Japan where the idea that culture and nature should not be contrasted and contradicted but rather harmonized was developed.

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