جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « semiology » در نشریات گروه « تاریخ »

In an overview, eight discourses and currents can be identified across European and American Iranian studies foundations and centers: archaeological-historical, encyclopedia-writing, Linguistics and Persian literature, cultural-artistic, Iranian scientific and academic studies, social, political, and Islamist-philosophical. Each of these discourses and currents is divided into different schools, sub-discourses, and sub-currents and represented by some foundations and centers. This interdisciplinary article aims to represent and analyze the semiotic system, articulation system, and the identity logic of the discursive environment in prominent western Iranian studies foundations and centers. The focal question is investigating and identifying the concepts and signs that articulate and represent the identity logic of the Western Iranian studies foundations and centers. The focus is on the identity articulation in the system and the discursive logic. The research methodology is based on Essex school’s Semiology (Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe), and corpus-based method. Therefore, first, the output of the centers and foundations, which has an identity-based nature, is extracted through a significant corpus framework; then, their chain of signifiers, signified, and referents is analyzed. Finally, the identity logic is explained by positive in-group and negative out-group representation framework. According to the findings, most of the foundations and centers have a confrontational stance towards the Islamic Revolution and the Islamic Republic. This other-making is associated with foregrounding ancient Iran and Western democracy in the identity logic, metaphorical environment, and articulation system and varies in a spectrum from agonism to antagonism. The Islamic republic, generally, is not in the foundations and institutions’ chain and logic of equivalence, but rather in their chain and logic of difference.

The third millennium BC marked a period of significant cultural, economic, and commercial exchanges between Iran and neighboring regions, including the Indus Valley, Mesopotamia, the Persian Gulf, the Oman Sea, and Central Asia. This article aims to investigate the cultural semiotics and connections between the Bronze Age sites of Southeast Iran, with an emphasis on Shahr-e Sukhteh, Shahdad, and Tepe Yahya. In this research, the seals and seal impressions of sites in the southeast of Iran, including Shahdad and Shahr-e Sukhteh, will be studied and analyzed based on comparative studies with important sites in Central Asia, including Balkh, Merv, Mondigak, Altintepe, Gonor Tepe, Dashlitepe, Tughlaq, and Ordos region. Therefore, in the framework of the signs studied on seals and seal impressions, a suggestion is made that there have been cultural connections between these regions in the Bronze Age. Based on this, the research questions have been raised as follows: What are the similarities between the motifs of pottery and seals? What are the similarities between the cultural artifacts found in the southeastern region of Iran and the Central Asian region? Were the visible similarities connected and serving a common purpose? Knowing the cultural interactions of these societies requires the study of the material evidence left by them. According to the distances between the ancient sites of the third millennium BC, these signs can be the result of a specific and guided thought that appeared in the sites of the eastern half of the Iranian plateau. The transfer of ideas from one place to another has occurred due to extensive commercial connections between societies. This shows that the cultural interactions between Central Asia and the eastern and southeastern regions of Iran and part of the Indo-European culture in the Bronze Age could have originated from common beliefs and ideas.