Social Semiotics for a Complex World

Analysing Language and Social Meaning
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-7456-9620-1
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Social semiotics reveals language?s social meaning - its structures, processes, conditions and effects - in all social contexts, across all media and modes of discourse. This important new book uses social semiotics as a one-stop shop to analyse language and social meaning, enhancing linguistics with a sociological imagination.

Social Semiotics for a Complex World develops ideas, frameworks and strategies for better understanding key problems and issues involving language and social action in today?s hyper-complex world driven by globalization and new media. Its semiotic basis incorporates insights from various schools of linguistics (such as cognitive linguistics, critical discourse analysis and sociolinguistics) as well as from sociology, anthropology, philosophy, psychology and literary studies. It employs a multi-modal perspective to follow meaning across all modes of language and media, and a multi-scalar approach that ranges between databases and one-word slogans, the local and global, with examples from English, Chinese and Spanish.

Social semiotics analyses twists and turns of meanings big and small in complex contexts. This book uses semiotic principles to build a powerful, flexible analytic toolkit which will be invaluable for students across the humanities and social sciences.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hodge, Bob

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

PART I: Principles and Practices
Chapter 1: Key Concepts

Chapter 2: Some Notes on Method

PART II: From Linguistics to Semiotics
Chapter 3: Words
Chapter 4: Grammar
Chapter 5: Reading and Meaning

PART III: Meaning and Society
Chapter 6: The Semiotics of Reality
Chapter 7: Ideology and Social Meaning
Chapter 8: Multiscalar Analysis
Chapter 9: Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Bob Hodge is Research Professor in the Institute for Culture and Society at the University of Western Sydney.