International Handbook of Semiotics / edited by Peter Pericles Trifonas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Trifonas, Peter Pericles., Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages—Philosophy.

Education—Philosophy.

Sociolinguistics.

Philosophy of Language.

Educational Philosophy.

Local Subjects:

Philosophy of Language.

Educational Philosophy.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1282 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2015.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 theoretical movements of the 20th century and its influence as a way to conduct analyses of cultural products and human practices has been immense. This is a comprehensive volume that brings together many otherwise fragmented academic disciplines and currents, uniting them in the framework of semiotics. Addressing a longstanding need, it provides a global perspective on recent and ongoing semiotic research across a broad range of disciplines. The handbook is intended for all researchers interested in applying semiotics as a critical lens for inquiry across diverse disciplines.

Contents:

Section 1: Historical and Conceptual Foundations of Semiotics

Chapter 1: Semiotics “Today”: 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 “Monk” 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 “What We See”: 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: Τhe 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: “If you could see what I see”: the Semiotics of “Invisibility” 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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

94-017-9404-9