Author : Adam Jaworski
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 36,93 MB
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1847061826
Landscapes generate meaning and impact on three major areas of scholarly interest: language and visual discourse, spatial practices and global capitalism.
Author : Martin Pütz
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 40,38 MB
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1788922174
This book provides a forum for theoretical, methodological and empirical contributions to research on language(s), multimodality and public space, which will advance new ways of understanding the sociocultural, ideological and historical role of communication practices and experienced lives in a globalised world. Linguistic Landscape is viewed as a metaphor and expanded to include a wide variety of discursive modalities: imagery, non-verbal communication, silence, tactile and aural communication, graffiti, smell, etc. The chapters in this book cover a range of geographical locations, and capture the history, motives, uses, causes, ideologies, communication practices and conflicts of diverse forms of languages as they may be observed in public spaces of the physical environment. The book is anchored in a variety of theories, methodologies and frameworks, from economics, politics and sociology to linguistics and applied linguistics, literacy and education, cultural geography and human rights.
Author : Penelope Eckert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 31,56 MB
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 110712297X
An important new study of the social meaning of sociolinguistic variation.
Author : Lian Duan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 28,50 MB
Release : 2018-12-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1527522784
Reading art from a semiotic perspective, this book offers a new interpretation of the development of Chinese landscape painting and outlines a new framework for contemporary semiotics and critical theory. It will appeal to those interested in visual art, Chinese studies, critical theory, semiotics, and other relevant fields, and will allow the reader to learn how to put theory into the practice of studying art, how to give new life to an important theory, and how to acquire a new point of view in appreciating and enjoying art with a certain critical theory.
Author : Seymour Chatman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1268 pages
File Size : 22,19 MB
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110803321
No detailed description available for "A Semiotic Landscape. Panorama sémiotique".
Author : Peter Howard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 50,56 MB
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 1351762923
This new edition of The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies contains an updated and expanded selection of original chapters which explore research directions in an array of disciplines sharing a concern for ‘landscape’, a term which has many uses and meanings. It features 33 revised and/or updated chapters and 14 entirely new chapters on topics such as the Anthropocene, Indigenous landscapes, challenging landscape Eurocentrisms, photography and green infrastructure planning. The volume is divided into four parts: Experiencing landscape; Landscape, heritage and culture; Landscape, society and justice; and Design and planning for landscape. Collectively, the book provides a critical review of the various fields related to the study of landscapes, including the future development of conceptual and theoretical approaches, as well as current empirical knowledge and understanding. It encourages dialogue across disciplinary barriers and between academics and practitioners, and reflects upon the implications of research findings for local, national and international policy in relation to landscape. The Companion provides a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to current thinking about landscapes, and serves as an invaluable point of reference for scholars, researchers and graduate students alike.
Author : Almo Farina
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 30,40 MB
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108874525
The distinction between humans and the natural world is an artefact and more a matter of linguistic communication than a conceptual separation. This Element proposes ecosemiotics as an epistemological tool to better understand the relationship between human and natural processes. Ecosemiotics with its affinity to the humanities, is presented here as the best disciplinary approach for interpreting complex environmental conditions for a broad audience, across a multitude of temporal and spatial scales. It is proposed as an intellectual bridge between divergent sciences to incorporate within a unique framework different paradigms. The ecosemiotic paradigm helps to explain how organisms interact with their external environments using mechanisms common to all living beings that capture external information and matter for internal usage. This paradigm can be applied in all the circumstances where a living being (man, animal, plant, fungi, etc.) performs processes to stay alive.
Author : FERNANDEZ-MALLA. . KROMPAK
Publisher : New Perspectives on Language and Education
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 18,68 MB
Release : 2021-12-31
Category :
ISBN : 9781788923859
Drawing on insights from linguistics and semiotics, this book explores the linguistic landscape of the classroom and offers new perspectives on both linguistic landscape and educational sciences. The book brings together empirical studies conducted with two different foci: schoolscapes and the use of linguistic landscape as a pedagogical tool.
Author : Olga Lavrenova
Publisher : Springer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 36,69 MB
Release : 2019-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3030151689
This book examines the problem of relationships between culture and space. Highlighting the use of semiotics of culture as a basic concept of research, it describes the power of the cultural landscape in the context of culture philosophical research. Opening with a discussion of the existence of culture in space, it establishes basic concepts such as noosphere and pneumatosphere. The author acknowledges the early contributions of thinkers like Vladimir Vernadsky and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who first observed that human activity has become a geological force. Introducing time and space to the discussion, the author then describes the nature of mythological time, eternity versus timelessness, and the semantics of sacred landscapes, space and ritual. These concepts are further developed in discussions of the metaphorical nature of cultural landscape, and the city as metaphor. The book explores semiotics in the cultural landscape, examining the genesis of concepts from geographical images to signs and the axiological dimension of geographical images. In her approach to the idea of cultural landscape as text, she provides detailed examples, including the Russian landscape as agent provocateur of the text, and the culture philosophical aspects and semantics of travel. It establishes the cultural landscape as a phenomenon of culture that is fixed in geographical space with the help of semiotic mechanisms—a specific area of culture of life possessing functional and ontological self-sufficiency. This book appeals readers and researchers interested in the philosophy of culture, semiotics of space, and the philosophical dimensions of culture and geography.
Author : Dr Michelle M Metro-Roland
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 11,85 MB
Release : 2012-11-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1409490254
Drawing upon the literature of landscape geography, tourism studies, cultural studies, visual studies and philosophy, this book offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding the interaction between urban environments and tourists. This is a necessary prerequisite for cities as they make themselves into enticing destinations and compete for tourists' attention. It argues that tourists make sense of, and draw meaningful conclusions about, the places in which they tour based upon the interpretation of the signs or elements encountered within the built environment, elements such as graffiti and lamp posts. The writings of the American pragmatist Charles S. Peirce on interpretation provide the theoretical model for explaining the way in which mind and world, or thoughts and objects, result in tourists interacting with place. This theoretical framework elucidates three applied studies undertaken with foreign visitors to the Hungarian capital of Budapest. Based upon extensive ethnographic field work, these studies focus on tourists' interpretation of the urban landscape, with particular attention paid to the encounters with national culture, the role of architecture and the importance of the prosaic in urban tourism.
