The Semiotics of Banknotes and Coins : Reading Contemporary Currency Design.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moreno Barreneche, Sebastián, author.

Series:

Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics.

Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bank notes.

Paper money.

Semiotics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2025.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

Studies currency from a semiotic perspective, with a focus on how it reproduces and produces social meanings in the public sphere of the countries where it is used.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title

Copyright

Contents

Figures

Tables

Preface

1 The Social Relevance of Currency, or Why Study Banknotes and Coins

1.2 Money and currency as institutional facts

2 Introducing Semiotics

2.2 Text, discourse, semiosphere

3 Studying Currency Design Using Semiotics

3.1 Scholarship on national currencies and currency design

3.2 Semiotics' contribution to studying currency design

3.3 Analytical methodology

4 US Dollar

4.1 Context

4.2 Banknotes and coins of the US dollar

4.3 Analysis

5 Canadian Dollar

6 British Pound Sterling

7 Swiss Franc

8 Brazilian Real

9 Uruguayan Peso

10 Argentine Peso

11 The Euro

Conclusions

Notes

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

References

Index.

ISBN:

1-350-45146-0

1-350-45137-1

9781350451377

OCLC:

1520505841