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The Signs and Meanings of Adolescence
Häftad, 1994
315 kr
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The image of restless, apathetic, mopish, awkward teenagers who listen to loud, screeching music when they are not on the phone, and who insist on dressing, wearing their hair, and behaving exactly like the friends they cannot seem to live without, has become a fixture of the modern social …
Peirce, Signs, and Meaning
Häftad, 1997
455 kr
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C.S. Peirce was the founder of pragmatism and a pioneer in the field of semiotics. His work investigated the problem of meaning, which is the core aspect of semiosis as well as a significant issue in many academic fields. Floyd Merrell demonstrates throughout Peirce, Signs, and Meaning that …
Semantics and the Body
Meaning from Frege to the Postmodern
Häftad, 1997
454 kr
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In traditional semantics, the human body tends to be ignored in the process of constructing meaning. Horst Ruthrof argues, by contrast, that the body is an integral part of this hermeneutic activity. Strictly language-based theories, and theories which conflate formal and natural languages, run …
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics, Media, and Communication
Häftad, 2000
435 kr
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Semiotics, Media Studies and Communication Studies are three closely interlinked fields. Briefly stated, Semiotics, the science of signs, looks at how humans search for and construct meaning; Communication Studies is concerned with how meaning is conveyed; and Media Studies considers the ways in …
Signs
An Introduction to Semiotics
Häftad, 2001
429 kr
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The interpretive science of semiotics offers powerful analytical tools for the application of many disciplines to the study of perception. Semiotics is the study of signs, and as such, is of relevance to a wide spectrum of scholars and professionals, including social scientists, psychologists, …
Extended Mind
The Emergence of Language, the Human Mind, and Culture
Häftad, 2008
439 kr
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The ability to communicate through language is such a fundamental part of human existence that we often take it for granted, rarely considering how sophisticated the process is by which we understand and make ourselves understood. In The Extended Mind, acclaimed author Robert K. Logan examines the …
On the Comic and Laughter
Av Vladimir Propp, Jean-Patrick Debbèche m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
636 kr
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An extensive investigation of the forms and functions of the comic, this lively and engaging English critical edition will be welcomed by those interested in laughter, comedy, folklore, Russian literature, and specific authors such as Gogol, Pushkin, Chekhov, Rabelais, Molière, and Shakespeare. The …
Remodelling Communication
From WWII to the WWW
Av Gary Genosko
Häftad, 2013
325 kr
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Covering major developments from post-war cybernetics and telegraphy to the Internet and our networked society, Remodelling Communication explores the critical literature from across disciplines and eras on the models used for studying communications and culture.Proceeding model-by-model, Genosko …
Cybersemiotics
Why Information Is not Enough
Av Soren Brier
Häftad, 2013
557 kr
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A growing field of inquiry, biosemiotics is a theory of cognition and communication that unites the living and the cultural world. What is missing from this theory, however, is the unification of the information and computational realms of the non-living natural and technical world. Cybersemiotics …
Peirce, Signs, and Meaning
E-bok, 1997
584 kr
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C.S. Peirce was the founder of pragmatism and a pioneer in the field of semiotics. His work investigated the problem of meaning, which is the core aspect of semiosis as well as a significant issue in many academic fields. Floyd Merrell demonstrates throughout Peirce, Signs, and Meaning that …
Parallels, Interactions, and Illuminations
Traversing Chinese and Western Theories of the Sign
Av Ersu Ding
Inbunden, 2010
638 kr
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The first major work in Sino-Western comparative semiotics, Parallels, Interactions, and Illuminations is a trans-disciplinary and intercultural effort that makes intellectual connections not only across such diverse academic fields as epistemology, anthropology, linguistics, sociology, and …
Power of Scandal
Semiotic and Pragmatic in Mass Media
Inbunden, 2011
892 kr
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Are there events that are inherently scandalous? Power of Scandal finds that the very idea of 'scandal' is derived not from an event, but from public opinion - which, in turn, is construed by media narratives. Scandal is powerful because of its ability to challenge institutions by destabilizing …
Remodelling Communication
From WWII to the WWW
Av Gary Genosko
Inbunden, 2012
513 kr
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Covering major developments from post-war cybernetics and telegraphy to the Internet and our networked society, Remodelling Communication explores the critical literature from across disciplines and eras on the models used for studying communications and culture.Proceeding model-by-model, Genosko …
Semiotics Unbounded
Interpretive Routes Through the Open Network of Signs
Av Susan Petrilli, Augusto Ponzio
E-bok, 2005
1189 kr
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The more human knowledge increases, the more signs grow and, with this expansion, the more the boundaries of the science that studies signs also grows. In Semiotics Unbounded, Susan Petrilli and Augusto Ponzio explain the explosion of the sign network in the era of global communication and discuss …
Semiotics Unbounded
Interpretive Routes Through the Open Network of Signs
Av Susan Petrilli, Augusto Ponzio
E-bok, 2005
1607 kr
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The more human knowledge increases, the more signs grow and, with this expansion, the more the boundaries of the science that studies signs also grows. In Semiotics Unbounded, Susan Petrilli and Augusto Ponzio explain the explosion of the sign network in the era of global communication and discuss …
Parallels, Interactions, and Illuminations
Traversing Chinese and Western Theories of the Sign
Av Ersu Ding
E-bok, 2010
825 kr
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The first major work in Sino-Western comparative semiotics, Parallels, Interactions, and Illuminations is a trans-disciplinary and intercultural effort that makes intellectual connections not only across such diverse academic fields as epistemology, anthropology, linguistics, sociology, and …
Power of Scandal
Semiotic and Pragmatic in Mass Media
E-bok, 2011
1108 kr
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Are there events that are inherently scandalous? Power of Scandal finds that the very idea of 'scandal' is derived not from an event, but from public opinion - which, in turn, is construed by media narratives. Scandal is powerful because of its ability to challenge institutions by destabilizing …
Cinema and Semiotic
Peirce and Film Aesthetics, Narration, and Representation
E-bok, 2005
1811 kr
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'Meaning' in cinema is very complex, and the flood of theories that define it have, in certain ways, left cinematic meaning meaningless. Johannes Ehrat's analysis of meaning in cinema has convinced him that what is needed is greater philosophical reflection on the construction of meaning. In Cinema …
Conversations with Lotman
The Implications of Cultural Semiotics in Language, Literature, and Cognition
Av Edna Andrews
E-bok, 2003
1293 kr
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Conversations with Lotman is a critical analysis of Russian cultural historian and theoretician Jurij Lotman's central contributions to the study of semiotics, including his writings on the "semiotics of culture" and the "semiotics of artistic space," and his efforts to model the production of …
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The Signs and Meanings of Adolescence
E-bok, 1994
600 kr
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The image of restless, apathetic, mopish, awkward teenagers who listen to loud, screeching music when they are not on the phone, and who insist on dressing, wearing their hair, and behaving exactly like the friends they cannot seem to live without, has become a fixture of the modern social …
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics, Media, and Communication
E-bok, 2000
544 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Semiotics, Media Studies and Communication Studies are three closely interlinked fields. Briefly stated, Semiotics, the science of signs, looks at how humans search for and construct meaning; Communication Studies is concerned with how meaning is conveyed; and Media Studies considers the ways in …
Four Ages of Understanding
The First Postmodern Survey of Philosophy from Ancient Times to the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
Av John Deely
E-bok, 2001
815 kr
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This book redraws the intellectual map and sets the agenda in philosophy for the next fifty or so years. By making the theory of signs the dominant theme in Four Ages of Understanding, John Deely has produced a history of philosophy that is innovative, original, and complete. The first full-scale …
Literary Discourse
A Semiotic-Pragmatic Approach to Literature
E-bok, 2002
1412 kr
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At a moment when 'literature' threatens to be collapsed into other discourses, or to be subsumed by such terms as 'narrative' and 'genre,' Jurgen Dines Johansen, although he recognizes its protean nature, focuses on literature itself as it relates to other discourses. Using the semiotic theory of …
Mayhem and Murder
Narative and Moral Issues in the Detective Story
E-bok, 1999
1331 kr
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The detective story centres on unravelling two questions: whodunit? and who is guilty? In Murder and Mayhem, Heta PyrhÖnen examines how these questions organize and pattern the genre's formal and thematic structures. Beginning with a semiotic reading of the detective as both code-breaker and …
Narratology and Text
Subjectivity and Identity in New France and Québecois Literature
E-bok, 2003
1289 kr
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In Narratology and Text, Paul Perron examines the role that literature plays in the formation of French Canadian identity. Perron presents a narratological and semiotic analysis of canonical non-fictional and fictional texts from New France and Quebec, and illustrates how citizens of French …
Peirce, Signs, and Meaning
E-bok, 1997
507 kr
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C.S. Peirce was the founder of pragmatism and a pioneer in the field of semiotics. His work investigated the problem of meaning, which is the core aspect of semiosis as well as a significant issue in many academic fields. Floyd Merrell demonstrates throughout Peirce, Signs, and Meaning that …
Reading Theatre
Av Anne Ubersfeld, Jean-Patrick Debbèche m. fl.
E-bok, 1999
1256 kr
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First published in France in 1976, Anne Ubersfeld's three-volume work, Lire le theatre, has made a resounding impact on the semiological study of drama. Reading Theatre is a long-awaited translation of the first volume.Clear and systematic in its approach, the book covers all the basic elements of …
Semantics and the Body
Meaning from Frege to the Postmodern
E-bok, 1997
504 kr
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In traditional semantics, the human body tends to be ignored in the process of constructing meaning. Horst Ruthrof argues, by contrast, that the body is an integral part of this hermeneutic activity. Strictly language-based theories, and theories which conflate formal and natural languages, run …
Semiotic Insights
The Data Do the Talking
E-bok, 1999
940 kr
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This collection of articles by Irmengard Rauch, a widely known and respected scholar of semiotics and linguistics, provides a lucid narrative on the nature of both subjects, revealing their symbiotic relationship through concrete, data-based application.Rauch shows, with many practical examples, …
Sensing Corporeally
Toward a Posthuman Understanding
E-bok, 2003
1220 kr
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In Sensing Corporeally, Floyd Merrell argues that human sensation and cognition should be thought of in terms of continually changing signs that can be accounted for in terms of topological forms. Focusing on qualitative and analogical sensing, rather than quantitative and digital reasoning, …
