Theory and methodology of semiotics : the tradition of ferdinand de saussure / Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos, Karin Boklund-Lagopoulou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lagopoulos, Alexandros Ph., author.

Boklund-Lagopoulou, Karin, author.

Series:

Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC]

Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC] ; 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semiotics.

Saussure, Ferdinand de, 1857-1913.

Saussure, Ferdinand de.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (X, 357 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The book is an in-depth presentation of the European branch of semiotic theory, originating in the work of Ferdinand de Saussure. It has four parts: a historical introduction, the analysis of langue, narrative theory and communication theory. Part I briefly presents all the semiotic schools and their main points of reference. Although this material is accessible in many other Anglophone publications, the presentation is marked by specific choices aiming to display similarities and differences. The analysis of langue in Part II is also available in Anglophone bibliography, but the book presents Saussurean theory according to a new theoretical rationale and enriched with later developments. In addition, it is orientated so as to offer the foundation for the part that follows. Part III is a presentation of Greimasian narrative theory, well documented in Francophone bibliography but poorly represented in Anglophone publications. The presentation extends the theory in both a qualitative and a new quantitative direction, and includes a great number of examples and two extended textual analyses to help the reader understand and apply it. Part IV, communication theory, combines an extension of Greimasian sociosemiotics with other schools of thought. This original theoretical section discusses fourteen consecutive communication models, the synthesis of which results in a holistic, social semiotic theory of communication.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Prologue

Contents

Part I: The field of semiotics

Chapter 1 Introduction: What is semiotics?

Chapter 2 A brief history of semiotics

Part II: The semiotics of langue

Chapter 3 The basic concepts of langue

Part III: The semiotics of parole (textual semiotics)

Chapter 4 Syntagmatic analysis: Narrative theory

Chapter 5 Paradigmatic analysis: Isotopies, qualitative approach

Chapter 6 Paradigmatic analysis: Isotopies, quantitative approach

Chapter 7 Late and post-Greimasian theory

Part IV: The semiotics of communication

Chapter 8 A global model of communication

Chapter 9 Social semiotics

References

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110616309

3110616300

9783110618808

311061880X

OCLC:

1226679514