International Handbook of Semiotics / edited by Peter Pericles Trifonas.

This book provides an extensive overview and analysis of current work on semiotics that is being pursued globally in the areas of literature, the visual arts, cultural studies, media, the humanities, natural sciences and social sciences. Semiotics?also known as structuralism?is one of the major theo...

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Other Authors:	Trifonas, Peter Pericles (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint : Springer, 2015.
Subjects:	Philosophy (General) Linguistics > Philosophy. Sociolinguistics. Education > Philosophy. sociolinguistics. Education > Philosophy Linguistics > Philosophy Sociolinguistics
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Table of Contents:

Section 1: Historical and Conceptual Foundations of Semiotics
Chapter 1: Semiotics 2Today3: The 20th Century Founding and 21st Century Prospects
Chapter 2: Maps, Diagrams, and Signs: Visual Experience in Peirce's Semiotics
Chapter 3: Semiotics as an Interdisciplinary Science
Chapter 4: The Semiotic Paradigm View of Theoretical Semiotics
Chapter 5: Visions of the Other and Free Indirect Speech in Artistic Discourse. Bakhtin, Pasolini, Deleuze
Chapter 6: C.S. Peirce and Intersemiotic Translation
Chapter 7: Welby's Significs, Its Developments and International Ramifications. Section 2: Language, Literature and Semiotics
Chapter 8: Crafting the Literature of Semiotic Possibility: From the Metaphysical to the Detective Story in The Name of the Rose
Chapter 9: The Emergence of 'Atomodoxy' in Cold-War Rhetoric and Science Fiction Narratives: Fear, Threats, and the Duties of Citizenship in an Atomic Age
Chapter 10: The Semiotics of 2Monk3 Rehearsals: A Weaving of Two Texts
Chapter 11: Deviant Orthography
Chapter 12: Semiotics of Translation: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Translation
Chapter 13: Intersemiotic Translation and Transfer Theory in Cinematic/Audiovisual Adaptations of Greek Drama
Section 3: Media, Communications, and Semiotics
Chapter 14: The Brand as an Economic Value and a Sign: Positioning as an Instrument for Creating Market Distinctions
Chapter 15: Understanding the Codes and Assumptions of New Media
Chapter 16: The Semiotics of Innovation
Chapter 17: Multimodal Digital Humanities
Chapter 18: Semiotics of Photography. The State of the Art
Chapter 19: The Semiotics of the Mass Media
Chapter 20: Problems of Contemporary Architectural Graphics
Section 4: Biosemiotics
Chapter 21: Introduction to Biosemiotics
Chapter 22: Oikos: The Sign of Nature
Chapter 23: Waves of Semiosis. Is It about Time? On The Semiotic Anthropology of Change
Chapter 24: Embodied Signs: Expanding Representations through and with Bodies
Chapter 25: Face as a Sign and Paolo Manteggaza's Theory of Metoposcopy
Chapter 26: Feeling and Meaning: A Unitary Bio-Semiotic Account
Chapter 27: Preserving spaces of uncertainty: Bioremediation, urbanism and the sporting spectacle
Chapter 28: What Does Your Garden Show? Explorations of the semiotics of the garden
Chapter 29: Semiotics of Food
Section 5: Society, Culture, and Semiotics
Chapter 30: Semiotics of Culture(s). Basic Questions and Concepts
Chapter 31: Signs, Language and Life: Pathways and Perspectives in Augusto Ponzio's Scientific Research
Chapter 32: Even Signs Must Burn: From Semiotics and the Modern City to Jean Baudrillard's Symbolic Exchange and the Postmodern City
Chapter 33: Musical Performance in a Semiotic Key
Chapter 34: Cartosemiotics
Chapter 35: From to Semiosis to Semioethics
Chapter 36: Seeing 2What We See3: Beyond Projection and Representation of Criminality in Mainstream Media
Chapter 37: Applied Cultural Semiotics, Interculturality and Action-Research
Chapter 38: Reading the Subject of History: From Semiology to Poststucturalism
Chapter 39: Identity Today and the Critical Task of Semioethics
Chapter 40: The Street: The Ultimate Locus of Political Intervention in Modern Democracy
Section 6: Cybernetics, Systems, and Semiotics
Chapter 41: Sign functions in natural and artificial systems
Chapter 42: Semiotic Modeling: A Pragmaticist's Guide
Chapter 43: Semiotics of Computing: Filling the gap between humanity and mechanical inhumanity
Chapter 44: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants. A Semiotic Analysis of Assassin's Creed 2
Chapter 45: Virtual Worlds as Marketing Environments: The Case of Second Life
Section 7: Cognitive Semiotics
Chapter 46: Cognitive Semiotics
Chapter 47: Embodied Semiosis: Autistic 'Stimming' as Sensory Praxis
Chapter 48: Heterarchical semiosis: From signal-transduction to narrative intelligibility
Chapter 49: From Semantics to Narrative: The Semiotics of A.J. Greimas
Chapter 50: Xhe Spectastor's Reality: A Revision of Screen Space Aesthetics through Cognitive Film Semiotics
Chapter 51: Semiosis: The Dialectics of Cognition
Chapter 52: Text and Images
Section 8: Education and Semiotics
Chapter 53: Becoming a 'Mythologist': Barthes' Mythologies and Education
Chapter 54: Edusemiotics and the language of images
Chapter 55: Semiotics of Western Education
Chapter 56: Capitalists' Profitable Virtual Worlds: Roles for Science & Science Education
Chapter 57: It's like you're a teacher!: A social semiotic analysis of authority relations among high school mathematics students
Chapter 58: 2If you could see what I see3: the Semiotics of 2Invisibility3 in Pedagogy and Practice
Chapter 59: A Patriot is Respectful: (Re- )Examining the Architecture of Ideology in Educational Contexts
Chapter 60: The Emergence of Signs in Hands-On Science
Chapter 61: Extending students' semiotic understandings: Learning about and creating multimodal texts.

International Handbook of Semiotics / edited by Peter Pericles Trifonas.

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