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  • - An Introduction and Handbook
    af Marcel Danesi
    336,95 kr.

    Presents an introduction to the field of cultural semiotics. This book features practical examples of how semiotics can be used. It is suitable for those who want to understand the whys and wherefores of semiotics.

  • af Thomas A. Sebeok
    493,95 kr.

    The study of semiotics underwent a gradual but radical paradigm shift during the 20th century, from a glottocentric enterprise to one that encompasses the whole terrestrial biosphere. In this collection of 17 essays, Tom Sebeok, a thinker in the field, shows how this progression took place.

  • af Eero Tarasti
    443,95 kr.

    Existential semiotics involves an a priori state of signs and their fixation into objective entities. These essays define this new philosophical field.

  • - Studies in Semiotic Anthropology
    af Richard J. Parmentier
    652,95 kr.

    How semiotic theory can illuminate highly complex social and cultural practices.

  • - An Anthology
     
    308,95 kr.

    Umberto Eco is, quite simply, a genius. He is a renowned medievalist, philosopher, novelist, a popular journalist, and linguist. This anthology intends to examine his ideas of literary semiotics and interpretation as evidenced both in his scholarly work and in his fiction.

  • af Fernande Saint-Martin
    485,95 kr.

    Elucidates a syntax of visual language that sheds light on nonverbal language as a form of representation and communication. This book describes the evolution of this language in the visual arts as well as its multiple uses in contemporary media.

  • af Erika Fischer-Lichte
    494,95 kr.

    Explores each of the sign-systems of the theater and investigates the ways they relate to one another. This book is accessible to readers with some knowledge of theater but not much of semiotics. It is for those with an interest in theater production and performance, or indeed theater history.

  • - Rhetorics as a Contemporary Theory
    af Paolo Valesio
    453,95 kr.

    Arguing that rhetoric has always been an independent, objective, essential factor in human interaction, the author views it as coextensive with human speech in use.

  • af Giovanni Manetti
    427,95 kr.

    Talks about the origin of semiotics and sign theory. This book reconsiders the semiotic practices and the theoretical considerations of the sign which were developed in the ancient world and have come down to us through literary, philosophical, medical, historical, and rhetorical traditions.

  • - Musical Subjectivity and Signification
    af Naomi Cumming
    497,95 kr.

    A fresh contemplation of subjectivity and musical meaning.

  • af Sebastian Shaumyan
    453,95 kr.

    Taking issue with Transformational Grammar Theory, this title separates language from psychology, arguing that language occupies a different world, that of the semiotic.

  • af Jesper Hoffmeyer
    332,95 kr.

    Presents a journey through the universe of signs in search of how the natural world came to mean something to someone. This book shows that life at its most basic depends on the survival of messages, written in the code of DNA molecules, and on the tiny cell - the fertilized egg - that must interpret the message and from it construct an organism.

  • - Dupin, Holmes, Peirce
     
    302,95 kr.

    Suitable for armchair detectives with a penchant for logical reflection and Peirce scholars.

  • af Marco De Marinis
    650,95 kr.

    Discusses the possibilities of real theatrical performances: a project which is an unavoidable challenge for a semiotics of theatre. The author develops a systematic definition of performance in terms of text, a new theoretical object, which he sees as the result of treating theatrical performance as a material object.

  • af William O. Beeman
    453,95 kr.

    Beeman's study in cross-cultural linguistics will clearly be a model for the study of different languages and cultures.

  • af Winfried Noth
    683,95 kr.

    Covers the field of semiotics from Aesthetics to Zoosemiotics. This work contains sixty-five encyclopedic articles, a consolidated bibliography of almost 3,000 titles, an index of names, and an index of terms. It is intended for those who desire a comprehensive survey of this diverse field.

  • - A Translation of Andrea de Jorio's La mimica degli antichi investigata nel gestire napoletano
    af Andrea De Jorio
    378,95 kr.

    A translation with introduction of the first ethnographic and semiotic study of gesture in daily life.

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    259,95 kr.

    A collection of essays, which debate the questions of logical versus psychologically-based interpretations of language.

  • - Essays in Comparative Semiotics
    af Gerard Deledalle
    523,95 kr.

    Examines Peirce's philosophy and semiotic thought from a European perspective, comparing the American's unique views with a wide variety of work by thinkers from the ancients to moderns. This work deals with the philosophical paradigms which are at the root of Peirce's new theory of signs, pragmatic and social and more.

  • - An Introductory Anthology
    af R.E. Innis
    332,95 kr.

    ..". fifteen texts which are essential reading for anyone interestedin semiotics... This collection will surely become a standard text for those whoteach semiotics, aesthetics or philosophy of language." -- InternationalPhilosophical QuarterlyThis volume presents the classicstatements in semiotics and touches on a vast set of problems and themes --philosophical, aesthetic, literary, cultural, biological, andanthropological.

  • af Eero Tarasti
    493,95 kr.

    Analyzes musical works through the theoretical frameworks of narratology and French structural semiotics, especially that of A J Greimas. This book views theories from the 'classical' semiotic tradition, from Saussure to Peirce to Lotman, as possible foundations of musical semiotics.

  • - Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts
    af Umberto Eco
    303,95 kr.

    In this collection of nine essays, Umberto Eco sets forth a dialectic between 'open' and 'closed' texts, between a work of art that actively involves the 'addressee' in its production and one that holds the 'addressee' at bay and seeks to evoke a limited and predetermined response. He investigates the contributions of contemporary semantics to the study of narrative, and connects the modalities of textual interpretation with the problem of possible worlds.

  • af Umberto Eco
    724,95 kr.

    Focuses on what the author once called 'the cancer of uncontrolled interpretation' - that is, the belief that many interpreters have gone too far in their domination of texts, thereby destroying meaning and the basis for communication. This book begins with four theoretical essays dealing with various aspects of interpretive theory.

  • af Umberto Eco
    430,95 kr.

    ... the greatest contribution to [semiotics] since the pioneering work of C. S. Peirce and Charles Morris."e; -Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism... draws on philosophy, linguistics, sociology, anthropology and aesthetics and refers to a wide range of scholarship... raises many fascinating questions."e; -Language in Society... a major contribution to the field of semiotic studies."e; -Robert Scholes, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism... the most significant text on the subject published in the English language that I know of."e; -Arthur Asa Berger, Journal of CommunicationEco's treatment demonstrates his mastery of the field of semiotics. It focuses on the twin problems of the doctrine of signs-communication and signification-and offers a highly original theory of sign production, including a carefully wrought typology of signs and modes of production.