Semiotics unbounded : interpretive routes through the open network of signs / Susan Petrilli and Augusto Ponzio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Petrilli, Susan, author.

Ponzio, Augusto, author.

Series:

Toronto studies in semiotics and communication.

Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semiotics.

Semiotics--Research.

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxv, 630 pages)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2005.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Semiotics Unbounded offers a new and original survey of the science of signs, evaluating it in relation to the problems of our time, not only of a scientific order, but also the problems concerning everyday social life.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Preface

Introduction: An Excursion into Semiotics

I.1. Two Meanings of Semiotics

I.2. Protagonist: The Sign

I.3. Stooge: The Interpretant

I.4. Pragmatism as Pragmaticism

I.5. The Verbal Sign's Influence on Semiotics

I.6. Signification and Significance

I.7. Signification and Denotatum

I.8. Beyond the Verbal Sign Paradigm

I.9. Subject and Alterity

I.10. Word and Dialogue

I.11. Dialogue and Inference

I.12. Inferences and Categories: Semiotics, Logic, Ontology

PART ONE: SEMIOTICS AND SEMIOTICIANS

1 An Itinerary: From Peirce to Others

1.1. Problems on Peirce's Desk

1.2. More Problems in Focus: Subjects, Bodies, and Signs

1.3. Neglected but Foundational Aspects of Peirce's Semiotics

2 About Welby

2.1. Why 'Significs'? A Contribution to Theory of Meaning, and More

2.2. Departure: Exegesis and Holy Scripture

2.3. Reading Significs as 'Biosensifics'

3 About Bakhtin

3.1. Philosophy of Language as Critique of Dialogic Reason

3.2. An Interdisciplinary Perspective and Detotalizing Method

4 About Morris

4.1. Behaviouristic Semiotics and Pragmaticist Semiotics

4.2. Semiotics and Biology

4.3. Sign, Dimensions of Semiosis, Denotatum, and Language

5 About Sebeok

5.1. Modelling Systems Theory and Global Semiotics

5.2. Semiotics and Semiosis

5.3. Sebeok's Works and the Destiny of Semiosis

5.4. Sebeok's Semiotics and Education

6 About Rossi-Landi

6.1. Rossi-Landi's Philosophy of Language

6.2. On the Tracks of a Multiform Research Itinerary

6.3. Communication, Mass Media, and Critique of Ideology

6.4. Rossi-Landi between 'Ideologie' and 'Scienze Umane'

7 About Eco

7.1. From Decodification to Interpretation

7.2. Interpretation and Responsive Understanding

PART TWO: MODELLING, WRITING, AND OTHERNESS.

8 Modelling and Otherness

8.1. Modelling, Communication, and Dialogism

8.2. Identity, Otherness, and Primal Sense as a Modelling Device

8.3. Writing as a Modelling Device

9 Writing and Dialogue

9.1. Dialogue, Otherness, and Writing

9.2. Dialogue and Carnivalized Writing

9.3. Dialogue and Polyphony in the Writing of Novels and Drama

9.4. Storytelling in the Era of Global Communication: Black Writing

Oraliture

PART THREE: PREDICATIVE JUDGMENT, ARGUMENTATION, AND COMMUNICATION

10 Understanding and Misunderstanding

10.1. Semiogenealogy of Predicative Judgment

10.2. Objective Misunderstanding and Mystifications of Language

11 Closed Community and Open Community in Global Communication

11.1. Logic, Argumentation and Dialogue in Global Communication

11.2. Argumentative Logic at the Helsinki Conference

11.3. The Sign Machine: Linguistic Work and Global Communication

11.4. Otherness and Communication: From the Closed Community to the Open Community

12 Global Communication, Biosemiotics, and Semioethics

12.1. Semioethics, Community, and Otherness

12.2. Bioethics, Semiotics of Life, and Global Communication

Glossary

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Bibliography

Index

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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4426-5907-6

1-4426-5711-1

OCLC:

923098029