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Bloomsbury Semiotics offers a state-of-the-art overview of the entire field of semiotics by revealing its influence on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. With four volumes spanning theory, method and practice across the disciplines, this definitive reference work emphasizes and strengthens common bonds shared across intellectual cultures, and facilitates the discovery and recovery of meaning across fields. It comprises:
Volume 1: History and Semiosis
Volume 2: Semiotics in the Natural and Technical Sciences
Volume 3: Semiotics in the Arts and Social Sciences
Volume 4: Semiotic Movements
Written by leading international experts, the chapters provide comprehensive overviews of the history and status of semiotic inquiry across a diverse range of traditions and disciplines. Together, they highlight key contemporary developments and debates along with ongoing research priorities. Providing the most comprehensive and united overview of the field,
Bloomsbury Semiotics enables anyone, from students to seasoned practitioners, to better understand and benefit from semiotic insight and how it relates to their own area of study or research.
Volume 1:
History and Semiosis provides a general and historical orientation to semiotic traditions and their methodologies, followed by an in-depth overview of critical issues in the study of sign systems and semiosis. It ends with an exploration of issues of sign classification and practical application, setting the scene for the remaining volumes.
List of contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Introduction, Jamin Pelkey
1. Global Semiotics, Paul Cobley
2. Pre-Modern Semiotics, Martin Švantner and Michal Karla
3. Early-Modern Semiotics, Michal Karla and Tuuli Pern
4. Pragmatist Semiotics, Winfried Nöth
5. Post/Structuralist Semiotics, Massimo Leone
6. Reality and Semiosis, Marc Champagne
7. Evolution and Semiosis, Alexei Sharov and Kalevi Kull
8. Consciousness and Semiosis, Jordan Zlatev and Piotr Konderak
9. Iconicity and Semiosis, Göran Sonesson
10. Opposition and Semiosis, Marcel Danesi
11. Habit and Semiosis, Donna West
12. Ideology and Semiosis, Susan Petrilli and Augusto Ponzio
13. Classifying Signs, Priscila Borges
14. Applying Signs, John Coletta and Didier Tsala Effa
Index
About the author
Jamin Pelkey is Professor and Program Director in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Ryerson University, Canada.
Summary
Bloomsbury Semiotics offers a state-of-the-art overview of the entire field of semiotics by revealing its influence on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. With four volumes spanning theory, method and practice across the disciplines, this definitive reference work emphasizes and strengthens common bonds shared across intellectual cultures, and facilitates the discovery and recovery of meaning across fields. It comprises:
Volume 1: History and Semiosis
Volume 2: Semiotics in the Natural and Technical Sciences
Volume 3: Semiotics in the Arts and Social Sciences
Volume 4: Semiotic Movements
Written by leading international experts, the chapters provide comprehensive overviews of the history and status of semiotic inquiry across a diverse range of traditions and disciplines. Together, they highlight key contemporary developments and debates along with ongoing research priorities. Providing the most comprehensive and united overview of the field, Bloomsbury Semiotics enables anyone, from students to seasoned practitioners, to better understand and benefit from semiotic insight and how it relates to their own area of study or research.
Volume 1: History and Semiosis provides a general and historical orientation to semiotic traditions and their methodologies, followed by an in-depth overview of critical issues in the study of sign systems and semiosis. It ends with an exploration of issues of sign classification and practical application, setting the scene for the remaining volumes.
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Bloomsbury Semiotics is a much-needed reference that promises to provide a very solid general and historical introduction to a complex way of thinking, but also introduces a very wide range of interdisciplinary approaches to the field.
