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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 2:
Semiotics in the Natural and Technical Sciences presents the state-of-the art in semiotic approaches to disciplines ranging from mathematics and biology to neuroscience and medicine, from evolutionary linguistics and animal behaviour studies to computing, finance, law, architecture, and design. Each chapter casts a vision for future research priorities, unanswered questions, and fresh openings for semiotic participation in these and related fields.
List of contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Introduction, Stéphanie Walsh Matthews
1. Semiotics in Mathematics and Logic, Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen and Frederik Stjernfelt
2. Semiotics in General Biology, Kalevi Kull and Don Favareau
3. Semiotics in Ecology and Environmental Studies, Timo Maran
4. Semiotics in Ethology and Zoology, Morten Tønnessen
5. Semiotics in Evolutionary Linguistics, Jamin Pelkey and Prisca Augustyn
6. Semiotics in Health and Medicine, John Tredinnick-Rowe and Donald E. Stanley
7. Semiotics in Psychiatry and Psychology, Norbert Andersch
8. Semiotics in Neuroscience and Cognition, Kristian Tylén and Jijo Kandamkulathy
9. Semiotics in Computing and Information Systems, Martin Irvine
10. Semiotics in Economics and Finance, Todd Oakley
11. Semiotics in Law and Jurisprudence, Clara Chapdelaine-Feliciati
12. Semiotics in Architecture and Spatial Design, Gabriele Aroni
13. Semiotics in Graphic Design, Steven Skaggs
14. Semiotics in Marketing and Branding, Kristian Bankov and Dimitar Trendafilov
Index
About the author
Jamin Pelkey is Professor and Program Director in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Ryerson University, Canada.Stéphanie Walsh Matthews is Associate Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures & 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 2: Semiotics in the Natural and Technical Sciences presents the state-of-the art in semiotic approaches to disciplines ranging from mathematics and biology to neuroscience and medicine, from evolutionary linguistics and animal behaviour studies to computing, finance, law, architecture, and design. Each chapter casts a vision for future research priorities, unanswered questions, and fresh openings for semiotic participation in these and related fields.
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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.
