International Handbook of Semiotics

2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-94-017-9403-9
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 1308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 169 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 12777 g

This book provides an extensive overview and analysis of current work on semiotics that is being pursued globally in the areas of literature, the visual arts, cultural studies, media, the humanities, natural sciences and social sciences. Semiotics—also known as structuralism—is one of the major theoretical movements of the 20th century and its influence as a way to conduct analyses of cultural products and human practices has been immense.

This is a comprehensive volume that brings together many otherwise fragmented academic disciplines and currents, uniting them in the framework of semiotics. Addressing a longstanding need, it provides a global perspective on recent and ongoing semiotic research across a broad range of disciplines.

The handbook is intended for all researchers interested in applying semiotics as a critical lens for inquiry across diverse disciplines.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Trifonas, Peter Pericles

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Semiotik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section 1: Historical and Conceptual Foundations of Semiotics.- Chapter 1: Semiotics “Today”:  The 20th Century Founding and 21st Century Prospects.- Chapter 2: Maps, Diagrams, and Signs: Visual Experience in Peirce's Semiotics.- Chapter 3: Semiotics as an Interdisciplinary Science.- Chapter 4: The Semiotic Paradigm View of Theoretical Semiotics.- Chapter 5: Visions of the Other and Free Indirect Speech in Artistic Discourse. Bakhtin, Pasolini, Deleuze.- Chapter 6: C. S. Peirce and Intersemiotic Translation.- Chapter 7: Welby’s Significs, Its Developments and International Ramifications. Section 2:  Language, Literature and Semiotics.- Chapter 8: Crafting the Literature of Semiotic Possibility: From the Metaphysical to the Detective Story in The Name of the Rose.- Chapter 9: The Emergence of 'Atomodoxy' in Cold-War Rhetoric and Science Fiction Narratives: Fear, Threats, and the Duties of Citizenship in an Atomic Age.- Chapter 10: The Semiotics of “Monk” Rehearsals:  A Weaving of Two Texts.- Chapter 11: Deviant Orthography.- Chapter 12: Semiotics of Translation: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Translation.- Chapter 13: Intersemiotic Translation and Transfer Theory in Cinematic/Audiovisual Adaptations of Greek Drama.- Section 3: Media, Communications, and Semiotics.- Chapter 14: The Brand as an Economic Value and a Sign: Positioning as an Instrument for Creating Market Distinctions.- Chapter 15: Understanding the Codes and Assumptions of New Media.- Chapter 16: The Semiotics of Innovation.- Chapter 17: Multimodal Digital Humanities.- Chapter 18: Semiotics of Photography. The State of the Art.- Chapter 19: The Semiotics of the Mass Media.- Chapter 20: Problems of Contemporary Architectural Graphics.- Section 4: Biosemiotics.- Chapter 21: Introduction to Biosemiotics.- Chapter 22: Oikos: The Sign of Nature.- Chapter 23: Waves of Semiosis. Is It about Time?  On The Semiotic Anthropology of Change.- Chapter 24: Embodied Signs: ExpandingRepresentations through and with Bodies.- Chapter 25: Face as a Sign and Paolo M

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Pericles Trifonas is Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto. His areas of interest include ethics, philosophy of education, cultural studies, literacy, and technology. Among his books are the following: Revolutionary Pedagogies: Cultural Politics, Instituting Education, and the Discourse of Theory, The Ethics of Writing: Derrida, Deconstruction, and Pedagogy, Ethics, Institutions and The Right to Philosophy (with Jacques Derrida), Roland Barthes and the Empire of Signs, Umberto Eco & Football, Pedagogies of Difference, Deconstructing the Machine (with Jacques Derrida), International Handbook of Semiotics, CounterTexts: Reading Culture.