Novelty, the creation of new information, has been the hallmark of Juri M. Lotman’s thought. This issue resurfaces in the discussion of his now famous article “On the semiosphere,” in which Lotman, drawing on Vernadsky, identifies the principles of symmetry, asymmetry, and enantiomorphism as pivotal aspects of the semiotic mechanism of the semiosphere. Specular phenomena and mirror reflections have not only found a prominent place in contemporary semiotic theories of different scholarly traditions – from general semiotics (Eco, Volli) to cognitive semiotics (Sonesson) and to the semiotics of culture (Lotman, Levin) – but they also nail down a key element of the inner mechanism of Lotman’s concept of the semiosphere. By using the analogy of the face reflecting in a mirror, Lotman remarks: “It is also like a face, which, wholly reflected in a mirror, is also reflected in any of its fragments, which, in this form, represents the part and yet remains similar to the whole mirror.” By capitalizing on this excerpt, this study unpacks the significance of Lotman’s idea of specular mechanisms as generators of meaning within the semiosphere.

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倾斜符号学：洛特曼和艾柯中镜子和镜面反射的符号学

新颖性，即新信息的创造，一直是朱里·M·洛特曼思想的标志。这个问题在他现在著名的文章《论符号圈》的讨论中再​​次出现，其中洛特曼借鉴韦尔纳德斯基的经验，将对称、不对称和对映体原理确定为符号圈符号机制的关键方面。镜面现象和镜面反射不仅在不同学术传统的当代符号学理论中占有重要地位——从一般符号学（Eco，Volli）到认知符号学（Sonesson）和文化符号学（Lotman，Levin）——而且它们还确定洛特曼符号圈概念的内部机制的关键要素。通过使用类比脸反映在一个镜子洛特曼评论道：“它也像一张脸，它完全反映在镜子中，也反映在它的任何碎片中，以这种形式代表了一部分，但仍然与整面镜子相似。” 通过利用这段摘录，本研究揭示了洛特曼的镜面机制作为符号圈内意义生成器的思想的重要性。