Cultural Semiotics - For a Cultural Perspective in Semiotics

Through a reevaluation of the work of some of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century, this book details how semiotics, social sense, and social communication can function together to analyze how culture works in the contemporary era.

List of contents

Introduction
1. The Structuralist Perspective
2. Unity and Pluralism: the Theory of Jurij Lotman
3. Interpretation and culture: Umberto Eco's Theory
4. Ideas for an Archaeological Semiotics
Bibliography

About the author

Anna Maria Lorusso is Associate Professor of Semiotics at the University of Bologna, Italy. The author and editor of numerous books, her work has been published in such leading journals as VS and Lexia.

Summary

Through a reevaluation of the work of some of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century, this book details how semiotics, social sense, and social communication can function together to analyze how culture works in the contemporary era.

Product details

• Authors: Anna Maria Lorusso
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2015
• EAN: 9781137549419
• ISBN: 978-1-137-54941-9
• No. of pages: 229
• Series: Semiotics and Popular Culture; Semiotics and Popular Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; B, Media Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Theory, Communication, Ethnology, Social & cultural anthropology, Ethnography, Media and Communication, Sociocultural Anthropology, Culture—Study and teaching, Palgrave Literature Collection