Semiotics -- semiology

Introduction to Peircean visual semiotics

by Jappy, Tony

fromBloomsbury advances in semiotics

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Contemporary culture is as much visual as literary. This book explores an approach to the communicative power of the pictorial and multimodal documents that make up this visual culture, using Peircean semiotics. It develops the enormous theoretical potential of Peirce's theory o…

Discourse, structure and linguistic choice: the theory and applications of molecular sememics

by Caldwell, T. Price

fromStudies in Linguistics and Philosophy

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This volume presents eight nearly completed papers and a draft monograph on topics in linguistics and philosophy of language by T. Price Caldwell. In his early career, he wrote short fiction and poetry, and taught English literature. The relevance for these subjects of certain a…

From semiotics towards philosophical metaphysics

by Solomoniḳ, Avraham

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This book introduces new approaches to semiotics and metaphysical philosophy, innovations that show how mature semiotics naturally leads to new vistas in philosophical thinking. It also demonstrates how researchers change their initial formulations over the course of their resea…

Intersemiotic Translation: Literary and Linguistic Multimodality

by Pârlog, Aba-Carina

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This book explores the practical aspects of intersemiotic translation, examining how different signs and sign sets can be transposed into different kinds of semiotic forms of reference. Drawing on theories from translation studies, semiotics, philosophy and stylistics, the autho…

Umberto Eco's Semiotics: Theory, Methodology and Poetics

by Hoxha, Bujar

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This text explores four books produced by one of the most prominent semioticians of the previous century, Umberto Eco, in order to create a semiotic meta-theory which enhances a multifarious way of ""readability"" and scientifically justifies the dichotomy between the creation o…

The Semiotics of X: chiasmus, cognition and extreme body memory

by Pelkey, Jamin R.

fromBloomsbury advances in semiotics

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The X figure is ubiquitous in contemporary culture, but attempts to explain our fixation with X are rare. This book argues that the origins and meanings of X go far beyond alphabets and archetypes to remembered feelings of body movements - movements best typified in the performa…

SEMIOTICS OF LIGHT AND SHADOWS: modern visual arts and weimar cinema

by Sadowski, Piotr

fromBloomsbury advances in semiotics

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"Lighting and shadows are used within a range of art forms to create aesthetic effects. Piotr Sadowski's study of light and shadow in Weimar cinema and contemporaneous visual arts is underpinned by the evolutionary semiotic theories of indexicality and iconicity. These theories …

The languages of humor: verbal, visual, and physical humor

fromBloomsbury advances in semiotics

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"Why are things funny? How has humor changed over the centuries? Why don't political leaders like to be presented in caricatures? What do jokes tell us about ourselves? Why does slipping on a banana peel make so many people laugh? Featuring expert authors from across the globe, …

Peirce's Twenty-Eight Classes of Signs and the Philosophy of Representation

by Jappy, Tony

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The major principles and systems of C.S. Peirce's ground-breaking theory of signs and signification are now generally well known. Less well known, however, is the fact that Peirce initially conceived these systems within a 'Philosophy of Representation', his latter-day version o…

Peirce's Twenty-Eight Classes of Signs and the Philosophy of Representation: Rhetoric, Interpretation and Hexadic Semiosis

by Jappy, Tony

fromBloomsbury advances in semiotics

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The major principles and systems of C.S. Peirce's ground-breaking theory of signs and signification are now generally well known. Less well known, however, is the fact that Peirce initially conceived these systems within a 'Philosophy of Representation', his latter-day version o…

Computable bodies: instrumented life and the human somatic niche

by Berson, Josh

fromBloomsbury advances in semiotics

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"Data. Suddenly it is everywhere, and more and more of it is about us. The computing revolution has transformed our understanding of nature. Now it is transforming human behaviour. For some, pervasive computing offers a powerful vehicle of introspection and self-improvement. For…

Music as multimodal discourse: semiotics, power and protest

fromBloomsbury advances in semiotics

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"We communicate multimodally. Everyday communication involves not only words, but gestures, images, videos, sounds and of course, music. Music has traditionally been viewed as a separate object that we can isolate, discuss, perform and listen to. However, much of music's power l…

Computational semiotics

by Meunier, Jean-Guy

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"Can semiotics and computers be compatible? Can computation advance semiotics by giving the theory of signs a more scientific basis? Coupling semiotics, a philosophical and phenomenological tradition concerned with theories of signs, with computation, a formal discipline, may se…

Computational semiotics

by Meunier, Jean-Guy

fromBloomsbury advances in semiotics

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"Can semiotics and computers be compatible? Can computation advance semiotics by giving the theory of signs a more scientific basis? Coupling semiotics, a philosophical and phenomenological tradition concerned with theories of signs, with computation, a formal discipline, may se…

End of the circus: evolutionary semiotics and cultural resilience

by Bouissac, Paul

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Acknowledgements -- 1. Overture: Themes and Variations -- Introduction -- Whence and wither the 'traditional' circus? -- 'Death to the circus' -- Clowns on the wane -- The body: from ritual to spectacle -- The human tragedy: "You! Wretched Gypsies!" -- 2. First Movement, Andante…

The end of the circus: evolutionary semiotics and cultural resilience

by Bouissac, Paul

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"This book analyses two features of the traditional circus that have come under increasing attack since the mid-20th century: the use of wild animals in performance and the act of clowning. Positioning this socio-cultural change within the broader perspective of evolutionary sem…

Registers of Communication

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In any society, communicative activities are organized into models of conduct that differentiate specific social practices from each other and enable people to communicate with each other in ways distinctive to those practices. The articles in this volume investigate a series of…