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Informationen zum Autor Mark Gottdiener is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at The University at Buffalo (SUNY). Klappentext Semiotics, the study of the sign systems that constitute human culture, has since its discovery in the late 19th century and early 20th century, transformed the ways in which we think about culture and communication. It has opened new areas of study and made fruitful connections between established disciplines. This four-volume set offers the most extensive, systematic and in-depth survey of the foundations and development of semiotics as a field. It covers foundational texts in semiotics, from the constitution of the field in the early 20th century, through its blossoming with the advent of structuralism in the 1960s and `70s and the formative dialogue between structuralism and Marxism. It goes on to present a representative selection of central essays in literary semiotics, narratology and poetics, the semiotics of anthropology, myth, art, architecture, music, theatre, film, fashion and other aspects of contemporary culture. Special attention is paid to the development of a poststructuralist, semiotically aware discourse in the analysis of culture and history, to the related areas of deconstruction and psychoanalysis, and to the current controversy over the possibilities and issues raised by a postmodernist semiotics. The anthology offers a unique and valuable research tool for students and scholars alike in all areas of the social sciences and humanities, including linguistics, social and cultural anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, philosophy, psychology, literature, and media and communication studies. Zusammenfassung Semiotics! the study of the sign systems that constitute human culture! has since its discovery transformed the ways in which we think about culture and communication. It has opened new areas of study and made fruitful connections between established disciplines. This four-volume set offers the most extensive! systematic and in-depth survey of the foundations and development of semiotics as a field. Inhaltsverzeichnis VOLUME ONE PART ONE: FUNDAMENTALS: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE FIELD Course in General Linguistics - Ferdinand de Saussure The Stratification of Language - Louis Hjelmslev Two Aspects of Language and Two Types of Linguistic Disturbances - Roman Jakobson Linguistics and Poetics - Roman Jakobson Basic Concepts of Peircean Sign Theory - Charles Sanders Peirce Writings on the General Theory of Signs - Charles Morris PART TWO: THE ARTICULATION OF THE FIELD Theses Presented at the First Congress of Slavic Philologists - Prague Linguistic Circle `Structural Analysis in Linguistics and Anthropology¿ - Claude Lévi-Strauss Elements of Semiology - Roland Barthes Basic Concepts of Greimasian Semiotics - Algirdas-Julien Greimas and Joseph Court[ac]es The Interaction of Semiotic Constraints - Algirdas-Julien Greimas and Fran[ce]cois Rastier Toward a Logic of Culture - Umberto Eco Theses on the Semiotic Study of Culture (As Applied to Slavic Texts) - B A Uspenskij et al Pertinence et pratique - Luis J Prieto Essai de s [ac] emiologie Semiotics of Science versus Semiotics of Art - Solomon Marcus Global Semiotics - Thomas A Sebeok VOLUME TWO PART THREE: SEMIOTICS AND MARXISM: THE DEBATE Discourse in Life and Discourse in Art - Valentin Voloshinov [and Mikhail Bakhtin] Reading Capital - Louis Althusser >The Mental and the Material - Maurice Godelier Language and Structures of Feeling - Raymond Williams The Importance of the Concept of Potential Consciousness for Communication - Lucien Goldmann Language as Work and Trade - Ferruccio Rossi-Landi The Economics of Linguistic Exchanges - Pierre Bourdieu PART FOUR: ANTHROPOLOGY, FOLKLORE AND MYTH Do Dual Organizations Exist? - Claude Lévi...
