Author: J.P. Evans
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400944640
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 281

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Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Estoril, Portugal, September 18-30, 1983

Author: Jonathan Duane Evans
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789024726882
Category : Semiotics
Languages : en
Pages : 225

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Author: Jonathan D. Evans
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ISBN: 9789024726882
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Thomas A. Sebeok
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110861313
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 744

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Author: Thomas A. Sebeok
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253115300
Category : Literary Criticism & Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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"As a glimpse onto U.S. American semiotics through the mind's eye of a witness, participant-observer, architect, and midwife, this slim but rich book fulfills its title." -- Journal of Linguistic Anthropology "This book is an invaluable historical, conceptual, and anecdotal account of the rise of semiotics in the United States." -- Review of Metaphysics Sebeok, who has done more to establish the field of semiotics in the United States than any other single scholar, here draws upon his personal experiences of half a century to present the achievement and current status of semiotics in this country. He focuses on salient individuals and intellectual issues, including theatre, television, folklore, sociology, tourism, and graphic design. He also examines semiotic applications to architecture, marketing and advertising, jurisprudence, and medicine.

Author: Per Durst-Andersen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110253151
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 329

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The book offers a completely new view of language and of languages such as Russian, Chinese, Bulgarian, Georgian, Danish and English by dividing them into three supertypes on the basis of a step-by-step examination of their relationship to perception and cognition, their representation of situations and their use in oral and written discourse. The dynamic processing of visual stimuli involves three stages: input (experience), intake (understanding) and outcome (a combination). The very choice among three modalities of existence gives a language a certain voice -- either the voice of reality based on situations, the speaker's voice involving experiences or the hearer's voice grounded on information. This makes grammar a prime index: all symbols are static and impotent and need a vehicle, i.e. grammar, which can bring them to the proper point of reference. Language is shown to be a living organism with a determinant category, aspect, mood or tense, which conquers territory from other potential competitors trying to create harmony between verbal and nominal categories. It is demonstrated that the communication processes are different in the three supertypes, although in all three cases the speaker must choose between a public and a private voice before the grammar is put into use.

Author: Jørgen Dines Johansen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134505787
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Signs in Use is an accessible introduction to the study of semiotics. All organisms, from bees to computer networks, create signs, communicate, and exchange information. The field of semiotics explores the ways in which we use these signs to make inferences about the nature of the world. Signs in Use cuts across different semiotic schools to introduce six basic concepts which present semiotics as a theory and a set of analytical tools: code, sign, discourse, action, text, and culture. Moving from the most simple to the most complex concept, the book gradually widens the semiotic perspective to show how and why semiotics works as it does. Each chapter covers a problem encountered in semiotics and explores the key concepts and relevant notions found in the various theories of semiotics. Chapters build gradually on knowledge gained, and can also be used as self-contained units for study when supported by the extensive glossary. The book is illustrated with numerous examples, from traffic systems to urban parks, and offers useful biographies of key twentieth-century semioticians.

Author: Jørgen Dines Johansen
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802035776
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 520

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Using the semiotic theory of American philosopher Charles S. Peirce, Johansen applies psychoanalysis, psychology, literary hermeneutics, literary history, Habermasian communication, and discourse theory to literature, and, in the process, redefines it.

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Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 460

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Author: Richard J. Parmentier
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253115263
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Richard Parmentier takes up Ferdinand de Saussure's challenge to study the "life of signs in society" by using semiotic tools proposed by Charles Sanders Peirce. He studies how semiotic theory can illuminate highly complex social and cultural practices.