Current Perspectives in Semiotics - Signs, Signification, and Communication, Volume 1

This unique book, inspired by the work of Umberto Eco - one of the greatest semioticians of all times - provides a compelling overview of current developments in semiotic research, bringing together various academic voices and critical reflections on the nature and function of signs, signification, and communication. Contributors, including Eco himself, discuss the status quo of the discipline, its scope, theoretical orientations, and methodological approaches, shedding light on the cognitive and philosophical complexity of the meaning-making process and form-meaning interfaces. The book is an outcome of the SIVO Signum-Idea-Verbum-Opus project initiated by Umberto Eco's keynote address during his visit at the University of Lódz in 2015. More theoretical insights and further explorations into contemporary semiosphere can be found in Current Perspectives in Semiotics: Texts, Genres, and Representations, published simultaneously by Peter Lang.

List of contents

Overview of main theories and current developments in semiotics - Examination of the structure and functioning of signs in contemporary semiosphere - Interface of language, cognition, and culture - Various aspects of signification and communication

Product details

• Assisted by: Lukasz Bogucki (Editor), Artur Ga¿kowski (Editor), Artur Galkowski (Editor), Monika Weronika Kopytowska (Editor)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.12.2018
• EAN: 9783631744307
• ISBN: 978-3-631-74430-7
• No. of pages: 262
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 214 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 412 g
• Illustrations: 29 Abb.
• Series: Lódz Studies in Language; Lodz Studies in Language
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures