Semiotics/Semiology

A detailed and compelling political study of how elite forces shape mass media.Edward S Herman and Noam Chomsky investigate how an underlying elite...

This book builds on Le Bon’s classic, The Crowd, to evaluate the role of crowds in American culture, society, and politics. It offers a detailed de...

You're trying to finish a screenplay, but there's a voice in your ear whispering, “You should know more about how cinema story works.” Perhaps you'...

Explores the origins of key concepts in semantics and semioticsThis book explores the influential currents in the philosophy of language and lingui...

The articles in this volume investigate everyday textual material of sociolinguistic landscapes in the early 21st century. Sociolinguistic landscap...

While multimodality is one of the most influential semiotic theories for analysing media artefacts, the concepts of this theory are heterogeneous a...

How do written and other signs shape our educational spaces and practices; and how, in turn, are these written and other signs shaped by the educat...

Ferdinand de Saussure is commonly regarded as one of the fathers of 20th Century Linguistics. His lectures, posthumously published as the Course in...

Language is the species-specific human version of the animal system of communication. In contrast to non-human animals, language enables humans to ...

The semiotics discipline - a hybrid of communication science and anthropology - accounts for the deep cultural codes that structure communication a...

The human body is a primary source of meaning-making, with the body conveying over two-thirds of our messages. But how can we understand these phys...

Basic semiotic theories are taught in most art schools as part of a contextual studies program, but many students find it difficult to understand h...

This book opens readers’ eyes to something they see all the time but take for granted: street signs. It is a portrait of the signs on modern Englis...

Goncharov in the Twenty-First Century brings together a range of international scholars for a reexamination of Ivan Goncharov’s life and work throu...