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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 4:
Semiotic Movements explores relationships between semiotics and closely related contemporary movements, strengthening the dialogue and collaboration between them. The movements examined include communication theory, systems theory, digital humanities, phenomenology, translation studies, multimodality studies, cognitive linguistics, and cognitive science.
List of contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Introduction, Paul Cobley
1. Communication Theory and Semiotics, Richard Lanigan
2. Media/Culture Studies and Semiotics, Sophia Melanson Ricciardone and Marcel Danesi
3. Digital Humanities and Semiotics, Alin Olteanu and Arianna Ciula
4. Systems Theory and Semiotics, Ricardo Gudwin and João Queiroz
5. Phenomenology and Semiotics, Peer F. Bundgaard
6. Hermeneutics and Semiotics, Ronald C. Arnett and Susan Mancino
7. Translation Studies and Semiotics, Evangelos Kourdis and Ritva Hartama-Heinonen
8. Pragmatics and Semiotics, Per Aage Brandt
9. Gesture Studies and Semiotics, Irene Mittelberg and Jennifer Hinnell
10. Multimodality and Semiotics, David Machin and Ariel Chen
11. Discourse Analysis and Semiotics, Kay O'Halloran and Sabine Tan
12. Integrational Linguistics and Semiotics, Adrian Pablé
13. Cognitive Linguistics and Semiotics, Jordan Zlatev and Möttönen Tapani
14. Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Göran Sonesson
Index
About the author
Jamin Pelkey is Professor and Program Director in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Ryerson University, Canada.Paul Cobley is Full Professor and Deputy Dean (Research & Knowledge Exchange) in the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries, Middlesex University, London, UK.
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 4: Semiotic Movements explores relationships between semiotics and closely related contemporary movements, strengthening the dialogue and collaboration between them. The movements examined include communication theory, systems theory, digital humanities, phenomenology, translation studies, multimodality studies, cognitive linguistics, and cognitive science.
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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.
