Semiotics for Beginners
Author : Daniel Chandler
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Page : pages
File Size : 27,81 MB
Release : 2005
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Author : Daniel Chandler
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Page : pages
File Size : 27,81 MB
Release : 2005
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Author : Daniel Chandler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 23,49 MB
Release : 2007-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1134324766
This updated second edition provides a clear and concise introduction to the key concepts of semiotics in accessible and jargon-free language. With a revised introduction and glossary, extended index and suggestions for further reading, this new edition provides an increased number of examples including computer and mobile phone technology, television commercials and the web. Demystifying what is a complex, highly interdisciplinary field, key questions covered include: What is a sign? Which codes do we take for granted? How can semiotics be used in textual analysis? What is a text? A highly useful, must-have resource, Semiotics: The Basics is the ideal introductory text for those studying this growing area.
Author : Thomas Albert Sebeok
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,23 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802084729
In this regard, semiotics is of relevance to a wide spectrum of scholars and professionals, including social scientists, psychologists, artists, graphic designers, and students of literature.".
Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 13,10 MB
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0809071940
"This new edition of MYTHOLOGIES is the first complete, authoritative English version of the French classic, Roland Barthes's most emblematic work"--
Author : Crystal L. Downing
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 34,28 MB
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 083086685X
Crystal Downing brings the postmodern theory of semiotics within reach for today's evangelists. Following the idea of the sign through Scripture, church history and the academy, Downing shows you how signs work and how sensitivity to their dynamics can make or break an attempt to communicate truth.
Author : Winfried Noth
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 35,73 MB
Release : 1990-09-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780253209597
History and Classics of Modern Semiotics -- Sign and Meaning -- Semiotics, Code, and the Semiotic Field -- Language and Language-Based Codes -- From Structuralism to Text Semiotics: Schools and Major Figures -- Text Semiotics: The Field -- Nonverbal Communication -- Aesthetics and Visual Communication.
Author : Paul Cobley
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,37 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781848311855
Unique graphic introductions to big ideas and thinkers, written by experts in the field.
Author : Richard J. Parmentier
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 34,34 MB
Release : 2016-10-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0253025141
A major voice in contemporary semiotic theory offers a new perspective on potent intersections of semiotic and linguistic anthropology. In Signs and Society, noted anthropologist Richard J. Parmentier demonstrates how an appreciation of signs helps us better understand human agency, meaning, and creativity. Inspired by the foundational work of C. S. Peirce and Ferdinand de Saussure, and drawing upon key insights from neighboring scholarly fields, Parmentier develops an array of innovative conceptual tools for ethnographic, historical, and literary research. Parmentier’s concepts of “transactional value,” “metapragmatic interpretant,” and “circle of semiosis,” for example, illuminate the foundations and effects of such diverse cultural forms and practices as economic exchanges on the Pacific island of Palau, Pindar’s Victory Odes in ancient Greece, and material representations of transcendence in ancient Egypt and medieval Christianity. Other studies complicate the separation of emic and etic analytical models for such cultural domains as religion, economic value, and semiotic ideology. Provocative and absorbing, these fifteen pioneering essays blaze a trail into anthropology’s future while remaining firmly rooted in its celebrated past.
Author : Paul H. Fry
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 11,83 MB
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0300183364
Bringing his perennially popular course to the page, Yale University Professor Paul H. Fry offers in this welcome book a guided tour of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. At the core of the book's discussion is a series of underlying questions: What is literature, how is it produced, how can it be understood, and what is its purpose? Fry engages with the major themes and strands in twentieth-century literary theory, among them the hermeneutic circle, New Criticism, structuralism, linguistics and literature, Freud and fiction, Jacques Lacan's theories, the postmodern psyche, the political unconscious, New Historicism, the classical feminist tradition, African American criticism, queer theory, and gender performativity. By incorporating philosophical and social perspectives to connect these many trends, the author offers readers a coherent overall context for a deeper and richer reading of literature.
Author : Sean Hall
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 48,5 MB
Release : 2012-03-26
Category : Design
ISBN : 1780673914
Semiotics is the theory of signs, and reading signs is a part of everyday life: from road signs that point to a destination, to smoke that warns of fire, to the symbols buried within art and literature. Semiotic theory can, however, appear mysterious and impenetrable. This introductory book decodes that mystery using visual examples instead of abstract theory. This new edition features an expanded introduction that carefully and clearly presents the world of semiotics before leading into the book's 76 sections of key semiotic concepts. Each short section begins with a single image or sign, accompanied by a question inviting us to interpret what we are seeing. Turning the page, we can compare our response with the theory behind the sign, and in this way, actively engage in creative thinking. A fascinating read, this book provides practical examples of how meaning is made in contemporary culture.