Sign studies and semioethics : communication, translation and values / Susan Petrilli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Petrilli, Susan, author.

Series:

Semiotics, communication and cognition ; 13.

Semiotics, communication and cognition, 1867-0873 ; volume 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semiotics.

Semiotics--Moral and ethical aspects.

Semiotics--Philosophy.

Language and ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (420 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : De Gruyter, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Preface

Acknowledgments

Contents

Introduction. The semioethic turn in sign studies

Part I: Critical semiotics, structures and models

Chapter 1. Signposts leading to semioethics: on signs, values and the non-neutrality of semiotics

Chapter 2. Insights into structure and structuralism

Chapter 3. Human modelling, puzzles and articulations

Part II: Signification, logic, iconicity

Chapter 4. Evolutionary cosmology, logic and semioethics

Chapter 5. Image, primary iconism and otherness

Chapter 6. Signs of silence

Part III: Understanding, significs and dialogism

Chapter 7. Reading significs as semioethics

Chapter 8. The objective character of misunderstanding. When the mystifications of language are the cause

Chapter 9. The live word, value and otherness

Part IV: The centrality of translation for semiotics

Chapter 10. Translational semiotics, life processes and ideology

Chapter 11. Translation, iconicity and dialogism

Chapter 12. The semiotic machine, linguistic work and translation

Part V: From global semiotics to semioethics

Chapter 13. Extending semiotic horizons

Chapter 14. From the methodica of common speech to the methodica of common semiosis

Chapter 15. Global semiotics and the vocation for translation

Chapter 16. Social symptomatology and semioethics

Notes

References

Name and subject index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 26, 2015).

ISBN:

9781614515227

1614515220

9781614519126

1614519129

OCLC:

898769466