Elliot Gaines, Ph.D. CONFERENCE PAPERS
Gaines, Elliot.
"Semiotics of Identity and the Shifting World Paradigm." Presented to the Semiotic Society of
America Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting.
October. 9, 2003. University of Ottawa, Canada.
---. "The Necessary Ambiguity of
Communication." Presented to
the Semiotic Society of America Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting. Trinity
University, San Antonio TX.
October. 17, 2002.
---. "Painting the Semiotic Text: The Relationship Between
Expression and Meaning in the Art of William Wolk.", presented to the
National Communication Association, Atlanta, GA. November 3, 2001.
---. "The Semiotics of Images from Independence Day and
September 11th 2001" Presented to the Annual Meeting of the Semiotic
Society of America, University of
Toronto, October 20, 2001.
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"Semiotic Self-Ethnography: Interpreting Video from the
Field." Presented to the
National Communication Association, Ethnography Division. Seattle, Washington.
November 11, 2000.
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"A Semiotic Video Project: Teaching Semiotics Through Brent's
Narrative Biography Of Peirce."
Presented to the Semiotic Society of America Twenty-Fifth Annual
Meeting. Sept. 30, 2000.
---. "Charles Sanders Peirce: Semiotics and the Logic of
Pragmatism." Solo independent production on the life, pragmatism and
semiotic theory of Charles Sanders Peirce. Presented to the Semiotic Society of America Twenty-Fifth
Annual Meeting. Sept. 30, 2000. Purdue University, West
Lafayette, Indiana.
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"Visualizing the Exotic Other: The Hermeneutics of an American in
India." Presented to the
National Communication Association Convention. Chicago, November 4-7, 1999.
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"Imaging the Other: An American Interpreting Signs of
India." A scholarly
video documentary and essay discussing India and the limits of perception in
understanding and representing foreign cultures. Presented to the Semiotic Society of America. Duquesne
University. Pittsburgh, PA. October 29,1999.
---. "A Bad Day on the River is Better Than a Good Day
at the Office: The Semiotic Construction of Whitewater Rafting
Professionals" Presented to
the Semiotic Society of America 23rd Annual Meeting, Victoria College,
University of Toronto. Oct. 15-18,
1998.
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"Semiotic Analysis of Myth: A Proposal for an Applied
Methodology." presented to the National Communication Association
Convention, Semiotics and Communication Commission. Chicago, IL.
Nov. 22, 1997.
---. "The
Semiotics of Artificial Mythology and "'The Far Side'." Presented to the Semiotic Society
of America 22nd Annual Meeting. Oct. 24, 1997 Louisville, KY.
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"Building Community Through Stories About Real Events: The Habitus
of Broadcast Journalism."
Presented to the Speech Communication Association Convention, Black
Caucus. San Diego, CA. Nov. 26,
1996.
---. "Media
Construction of Cultural Identity and Myth: A Semiotic Analysis of The Simpsons." presented to the Second Annual
Conference on Applied Communications for The Institute for Research and
Community Services. Edinboro
University of Pennsylvania. Sept.
28, 1996.
---. "A
Study of Insignificant News: An
Interpretive Analysis of the Tonya Harding Story." Presented to the Popular Culture
Association Silver Anniversary Meeting. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. April 12,
1995.
---. "The
Cultural Limits of CNN World Report." Presented to the Twelfth Annual Intercultural/International
Communication Conference.
University of Miami, Coral Gables Florida. 4 Feb. 1995.
---. "The
Language of Lived-Experience: Teaching Osteopathic Manipulative
Treatment." Presented at the
Speech Communication Association Convention. New Orleans, Louisiana. 22 Nov.
1994.
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"Communication for Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment: The Language
of Lived-Experience in OMT Pedagogy." Presented at the Ohio University Communication
Conference, Athens, Ohio. April 2, 1993.
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"Communication of Lived-Experience: Perception and Interpretation
in Diagnosis." Presented to
Pittsburgh Multiple Personality and Disassociation Study Group. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. April 1993.