Experts (oenologist, nose of perfumery, fakir, contortionist, imitator, etc.) develop a sensitivity, a body's empowered to be able to live professionally. Enter in this peculiar profession is often realized through transmission by a peer. Over time, tangible performance may be decline, threatening the existence of such professional experts. The question of the transmission of these specific knowledges intervenes in the course of these professionals, investigated by semi-structured interviews.

The ethical dimension of teaching is rooted in dynamicity which in turn is in an interrelated and trans-individuality space. This dynamicity is generated by forces which reflect the ways human subjects act. Insofar as ethics opens a perspective to the other individual, the ideal and the new action, we are in a deictic orientation which gives the symbolic gestures a pragmatic dimension. Thus, the interaction ethico-didactic provides teaching-learning process with a performative and anthropological sense. So, it would be interesting to use the applied predicates which relate the educational subject with other individual. In which sense are these predicates available to create ethical-didactic activities? Our task is therefore to examine the application of predicates which would lead us to an action or a social project created by the ethical sense.

Although Seoul has such a long history of more than six hundreds years as the capital city, it seems still far from laying groundwork for methodological approach or comprehensive documentation of academic discipline designated as ‘Seoul Studies', some of which place great emphasis on its historical and geographical studies rather than integrated research or semiotic analysis of the city in full range. Considering present conditions, this paper firstly aims to provide some critical examination of the urban history of Seoul, and then attempts to investigate ideological foundations of urban establishment of Seoul from semiotic perspectives as well as diachronic representation of historical changes in its urban space. In order to project semiotic and humanistic viewpoint within the historical evolution of urban space in Seoul, this paper will present urban semiotic descriptions of Seoul's unique process of modernity as a metropolis. The historical identity and signification of Seoul has been effaced successively and thus fallen into obscurity. Therefore, my research is to discover and illuminate how to make a city a more ‘human place', which can proceed from historical amnesia to the memorable city.

This article aims to show the news of the work and concepts of Henri Meschonnic, at once linguist, sociologist, philosopher and anthropologist whose work is strikingly modern and contribute significantly to the anthropological reflection on the communication process, especially from the consideration of the relationships between orality and sociality.

Dating back to the 12th century, the Tripitaka of Haeinsa took about sixteen years to be produced with all plates being of the same size and of a uniformly aligned style with regard to typography. After the scribes of the Tripitaka were bent to the normative discipline, it became possible for ‘mechanical' operators to complete the main advantage of writing. The situation is comparable to the Europe practice of woodblock-printed books, in which texts were engraved as an image. Considering its digitalization, however, the recently completed digital Tripitaka merely reproduced the image of the text, including neither the materials on which it is based nor the impressive spectacle of thousands of tablets lying on the shelves of Haeinsa Temple. It should be noted that the sacred is not reproducible because no image depletes real figures and no alphabet is written in the same exhausted manner.

Language falls within immanence or transcendence. It should then prompt philosophers. Considering approaches to the immanent theory of language, the "point of view" is immanent to dispose of any "extra-linguistic reality," following the exclusion of the two "realities" generally taken into account by the "transcendent" approaches. Among many others, Spinoza, in a particularly marked form, gives the example of a reflection on language as far as possible from any immanent perspective. The reverse is true for Hjelmslev: it is probably impossible to implement a more immanent-design language. Compared to these two opposing views, the position of Saussure will be appreciated at its true value. Finally, there is the permanence in the language: language in its permanent essence.

At a time when the use of electronic books is generalized with devices, such as the iPad or Kindle, reading books undergoes a great transformation ever known since the invention of printing by Gutenberg. Since I have promoted information semiotics — or semiotics of/by information technology — for some decades, it is time we should turn to the issue of transformation of reading. I take this issue in terms of hybrid reading: we read both paper books and e-books. This hybridization of reading requires a new semiotic approach of reading that can articulate types of semiosis involved both in reading the physical books and e-books, both in reading books and in reading other multimedia devices. In this paper, I will give my analysis on the work of a Japanese media-artist Masaki Fujihata, Beyond Pages (1995 collection ZKM), a major masterpiece considered as a classic of interactive art. My goal is to re-examine what is the semiosis of e-book. My purpose is to state that we do not yet know what an e-book is, or even what indeed a book is.

The purpose of this paper is to suggest the epistemological and archaeological implication of augmented city and inscription of it, which are actively being realized in the recent urban space creation, emerging from the historical changes of metapolis urbanization. From the point of reviewing the diachronic significance of the 21st century's urbanism and its relation with the rapid growth of information and communications technology and digital media, the paper describes how the digital media revolution has contributed to various new features of urban space, such as hypertextuality and hybridization. As a conclusion, this study brings a key question on how to re-articulate what might be written on a city, and also reconfigures our memories, both personal and collective, which make us obtain new sensations from the city.

This paper examines documentary image through narration and representation from Peirce's sign theory. The argument is that the documentary value of films comprises an art form where three semiotic levels of documentary image, namely expression, representation, and interpretation, are in coordination in order to produce a narrative world. Thus, a quest for meaning in life by virtue of documentary sign, rhematic/dicentic indexical sinsign, serves to discover truth with a scientific and artful way of narration and representation as a cognitive method. In particular, the paper argues that factual and fictional primary materials are used for representing reality which is commensurate with memory and narrative imagination.