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Semiotics Unbounded

2005-01-01 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2005-01-01
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Book Synopsis Semiotics Unbounded by : Susan Petrilli

Download or read book Semiotics Unbounded written by Susan Petrilli. This book was released on 2005-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the important theoretical responses offered by semiotics. Providing a much-needed introductory guide to the subject, Petrilli and Ponzio explore the ever-growing frontiers of semiotics through the thought of prominent sign scholars such as Charles Peirce, Victoria Welby, Mikhail Bakhtin, Charles Morris, and Thomas Sebeok. In an era of global communication, a global approach is necessary, and what may seem to be the whole, is only a part - a view being at once globalizing and open. Each and every sign is never self-sufficient and closed but exists always in a relation of otherness. This is true of the signs forming animals and human beings, individuals and communities, and involves the implication of all living beings in the life of all others. Semiotics Unbounded offers a new and original survey of the science of signs, evaluating it in relation to the problems of our time, not only of a scientific order, but also the problems concerning everyday social life.

The Routledge Companion to Semiotics

2009-09-11 History
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Release : 2009-09-11
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Routledge Companion to Semiotics by : Paul Cobley

Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Semiotics written by Paul Cobley. This book was released on 2009-09-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ideal introduction to semiotics, containing engaging essays from an impressive range of international leaders in the field. Featuring an extended glossary of key terms and thinkers as well as suggestions for further reading, this is an invaluable reference guide for students of semiotics at all levels.

The Self as a Sign, the World, and the Other

2013-05-01 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2013-05-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis The Self as a Sign, the World, and the Other by : Susan Petrilli

Download or read book The Self as a Sign, the World, and the Other written by Susan Petrilli. This book was released on 2013-05-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features the full scope of Susan Petrilli's important work on signs, language, communication, and of meaning, interpretation, and understanding. This work of remarkable depth takes up intensely debated topics, exhibiting in their treatment of them what Petrilli admires-creativity and imagination. The theory of identity being advocated in this book will provide the reader with an aid to appreciating the identity of the theorizing undertaken by Petrilli in her confrontation with an array of topics. She expertly combines analytic precision and moral passion, theoretical imagination and political commitment. Semiotics is associated with a capacity for listening. This capacity is also the condition for reconnecting to and recovering the ancient vocation of semiotics as that branch of medical science relating to the interpretation of signs or symptoms. The pragmatic aspect of global semiotics studies the impact of language or signs on those who use them, and looks for consequences in actual practice. Petrilli theorizes that the task for semiotics in the era of globalization is nothing less than to take responsibility for life in its totality. Book jacket.

Sign Studies and Semioethics

2014-10-09 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 2014-10-09
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis Sign Studies and Semioethics by : Susan Petrilli

Download or read book Sign Studies and Semioethics written by Susan Petrilli. This book was released on 2014-10-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the issues surrounding the problematic perpetuation of dominant sign systems through the framework of ‘semioethics’. Semioethics is concerned with using semiotics as a powerful tool to critique the status quo and move beyond the reproduction of the dominant order of communication. The aim is to present semioethics as a method to engage semiotics in an active rethink of our ability as humans to affect change.

Sign Crossroads in Global Perspective

2017-09-08 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2017-09-08
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Book Synopsis Sign Crossroads in Global Perspective by : Susan Petrilli

Download or read book Sign Crossroads in Global Perspective written by Susan Petrilli. This book was released on 2017-09-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language is the species-specific human version of the animal system of communication. In contrast to non-human animals, language enables humans to invent a plurality of possible worlds; reflect upon signs; be responsible for our actions; gain conscious awareness of our inevitable mutual involvement in the network of life on this planet; and be responsibly involved in the destiny of the planet. The author looks at semiotics, the study of signs, symbols, and communication as developing sequentially rather than successively, more synchronically than diachronically. She discusses the contemporary phenomenon that people in today's society have witnessed and participated in, as part of the development of semiotics. Although there is a long history preceding semiotics, in a sense the field is, as a phenomenon, more "of our time" than of any time past. Its leading figures, whom Petrilli examines, belong to the twentieth and twenty-first century. Semiotics is associated with a capacity for listening. This capacity is also the condition for reconnecting to and recovering the ancient vocation of semiotics as that branch of medical science relating to the interpretation of signs or symptoms. The pragmatic aspect of global semiotics studies the impact of language or signs on those who use them, and looks for consequences in actual practice. In this respect, Petrilli theorizes that the task for semiotics in the era of globalization is nothing less than to take responsibility for life in its totality.

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