University of Tartu, Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics, Tartu, Estonia, tiit.remm@ut.ee
Spatial organisation was seen as a primary modelling system in culture by Juri Lotman. Conceptions of space and the city in culture as well as spatial organisation in texts are widely studied in the semiotics of culture but spatial environment itself remains understudied. Conceptions that Lotman offers for the semiotics of space remain largely at the level of general cultural models. The aim in this study is to outline methodological steps and a possible method for analysing the urban space as a spatial text following Lotman’s works on the analysis of artistic texts. The outline of the method is exemplified with a case study of a series of recently (re)constructed central squares of small towns in Estonia.
Juri Lotman; semiotics of space; urban space Estonia
Download textFor citing: Tiit Remm (2022). Is there a Lotmanian method for the semiotic analysis of spatial texts? Human being: Image and essence. Humanitarian aspects. Moscow: INION RAN. Vol. 1(49): Semiosphere: spacial aspects. To the 100th anniversary of Yu.M. Lotman, pp. 88-107. DOI: 10.31249/chel/2022.01.05