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Semiotics and Its Masters : Volume 2.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Olteanu, Alin.
- Series:
- Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC]
- Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC] ; v.36
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (356 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Semiotics and Its Masters
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, Inc., 2023.
- Summary:
- Semiotics has ever-changing vistas in consonance with changes in the ever-increasing complexity of life on Planet Earth. This book presents cutting-edge work in semiotics, projecting developments in the future of the field. Authored by leading semioticians, Semiotics and its Masters, Volume 2 contains essays on learning, transdisciplinarity, science, scaffolding, narrative, selfhood, ecosemiotics, agency, cybersemiotics, pornography, nostalgia, language and money. The volume presents a panorama of semiotics as it will develop in the third decade of the 21st century. This book will furnish the reader with an overview of the challenges that face explorers in the contemporary world of signs.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Section 1: Semiotic epistemologies
- Welcome to Semiosistan!
- Beyond teleonomy: Towards a biology of semiotic realism
- Risky heuristics
- The semiotic inquirer and the practice of empirical inquiry
- Transdisciplinarity as a solution to the challenges of the contemporary world
- Section 2: Contemporary schools of theoretical semiotics
- Notes towards a semiotic theory of learning
- Scarcity and meaning: Towards a semiotics of economic transaction
- Applied ecosemiotics: Ontological basis and conceptual models
- The anthropological dimension of Greimas’ narrative semiotics
- What happens? The Zemic model in existential semiotics
- Section 3: Applications and practical discussions
- Intermedial narrative as communication media: Imagination, narrative, and selfhood from Peirce’s semiotic perspective
- Icons of modernity in belle époque Bucharest
- Glimpses into Peircean event imaging: Episode-simulation as a scaffold for right-guessing
- Development of agency as semiotic empowerment: A Peircean analysis
- On the corposphere: Body, eroticism and pornography
- Natural and cultural layers in the discursive becoming of language as a semiotic system
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 3-11-085780-4
- OCLC:
- 1492951855
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