Tracing the semiotic boundaries of politics / edited by Pertti Ahonen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ahonen, Pertti.

Series:

Approaches to Semiotics [AS]

Approaches to semiotics ; 111

Approaches to Semiotics [AS] ; 111

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semiotics.

Language and languages--Political aspects.

Language and languages.

Discourse analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (408 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2013

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No detailed description available for "Tracing the Semiotic Boundaries of Politics".

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

A Copernican revolution in political research: Reflections on the rainbow of essays in this book / Ahonen, Pertti

Part I: A rainbow of perspectives: Whence they came and where they are now

Political semiotics and the zero signifier / Lemert, Charles

Textuality, social science, and society / Brown, Richard Harvey

In re-search of plenitude: Some epistemological remarks in the postmodern era / Daudi, Philippe

Textual strategies or strategies with texts: Tel Quel and the social conditions of production of an avant-garde / Kauppi, Niilo

Part II: Stretching the rainbow: Colors fading and reappearing

Answering back: Power struggles in story and Speech / Corrigan, Peter

Semantic strategies as a means of politics: Linguistic approaches to the analysis of "semantic struggles" / Busse, Dietrich

Rationality and adlinguisticity in Foucault's political action / Casanovas, Pompeu

Part III: Re-establishing links between political and legal discourse

Public opinion, rights, revolutions: Transformations in laws and values / Kevelson, Roberta

Habeas Corpus: A semiotic analysis of common law cartographies / Goodrich, Peter / Hachamovitch, Yifat

The monopoly of legal discourse / Tiihonen, Paula

Part IV: Semioticizing management and organizations

The rhetorics of bureaucracy / Summa, Hilkka

Reconstructing cultural analysis in organizations: Alternatives to the modernist tale / Schultz, Majken

Identity, recursiveness and change: Semiotics and beyond / Kallinikos, Jannis

Technologies of representation / Cooper, Robert

Part V: The study of communication as a contemporary breeding ground

City marketing: A semiotic analysis / Kaufmann, Rebecca L.

Who's afraid of the big bad tube? American prime time tv, Finnish audiences: Meanings, pleasures, and the rule of aberrations / Steinbock, Dan

Benefit of the nation and self-interest: Some story/ies of a Finnish political debate / Moring, Tom

International communication: From the aboutness approach to the self-referential approach / Marcus, Solomon

Subject index

Notes:

Some articles were originally presented at the Workshop on Semiotics of the Colloquium on Language and Politics, University of Helsinki, Dec. 12-15, 1988.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110859195

311085919X

OCLC:

922949051