Semiotics/Semiology

This volume provides new insights on lying and (intentionally) misleading in and out of the courtroom, a timely topic for scholarship and society. ...

As a work of musical theory, or meta-theory, Music's Making draws extensively on work done in philosophy and literary criticism in addition to the ...

How is nostalgia expressed through space? Studies of nostalgia have long illustrated the emotional dynamics which condition our desire to go back ...

From the outset, the interrelationship between sport and communication has proved to be intense and heterogeneous. In a broad sense, sport can be ...

When a reader picks up a book, the essence of the text has been translated into the visual space of the cover. Using Umberto Ecos bestseller The Na...

The novel has often been characterized as the art form without a form. Although there may not be any rules for how to write a novel, as Matthew Cla...

The novel has often been characterized as the art form without a form. Although there may not be any rules for how to write a novel, as Matthew Cla...

The approach to images as cultural documents of collective memory and instruments of social shaping builds a central theoretical component of cultu...

The Book of Symbols combines original and incisive essays about particular symbols with representative images from all parts of the world and all e...

This book is the first volume on the artistic representation of industrial disputes in European art (from 1870 to 1914) since the catalogue of the ...

Yuri Lotman (1922-1993) was one of the most prominent and influential scholars of the twentieth century working in the Soviet Union. A co-founder o...

Yuri Lotman (1922-1993) was one of the most prominent and influential scholars of the twentieth century working in the Soviet Union. A co-founder o...

The Book of Symbols combines original and incisive essays about particular symbols with representative images from all parts of the world and all e...

Why we must learn to tell new stories about our relationship with the earth if we are to avoid climate catastropheReading literature in a time of c...

This book is an advanced debate on the nature of scalar implicatures, one of the most popular topics in philosophical linguistics in the last 20 ye...

How films help us understand the inevitable death of Earth and humanity Offering a bracing theoretical corrective to ecocriticisms emphasis on peda...

How films help us understand the inevitable death of Earth and humanity Offering a bracing theoretical corrective to ecocriticisms emphasis on peda...

Victor Dudman's revolutionary English Grammar brings grammar and logic together by conceiving grammar as 'the necessary preliminary to logic'. The ...

The chapters in this book consist of selected papers which investigate the theme of 'Myths Today', paying homage to the notion of myth as defined b...

This book presents developments of discourse analysis in France and applies its tools to key texts from five theorists of structuralism: Lacan, Alt...

Combining a fresh, previously unexplored view of the subject with a detailed overview of the past and ongoing philosophical discussion on the matte...

In clear and lively prose that avoids jargon, the author carefully and systematically examines the many kinds of subtly nuanced words or word-pairs...

The Semiotics of Happiness examines the rise of 'happiness' (and its various satellite terminologies) as a social and political semiotic, exploring...

This book explores verbal and non-verbal communication from a social anthropological viewpoint, drawing on ethnographic data from fieldwork in East...

This book explores verbal and non-verbal communication from a social anthropological viewpoint, drawing on ethnographic data from fieldwork in East...

This book examines semiotics, meaning-making and the co-construction of relations in transmodal communications. Through the lens of transpositionin...

This book examines semiotics, meaning-making and the co-construction of relations in transmodal communications. Through the lens of transpositionin...

This book tells the story of the landmark event in modern logic whereby Alfred Tarski became the man who defined truth. Alfred Tarskis classic mono...

This open access book highlights the link between Bruno Latour's works and the semiotic perspective on social phenomena analysis. It identifies and...

Our understanding of CS Peirce, and his semiotics, is largely influenced by a twentieth century perspective that prioritizes the sign as a cultura...

This book examines the extent to which the insights of STS can be used to analyse the role of architecture in and for social life. The contribution...

This is a methodical study of the material and mental limits and possibilities of transferring information and media traits among dissimilar media....

Dating back to antiquity, semiotics is both a technique and a science that aims to understand the nature of meaning. An academic discipline in its ...

Presenting a detailed examination of the origins, evolutions, and state-of-the-art of linguistic landscape research, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Lin...

This book focuses on strategies and procedures for assessing the academic language ability of students entering an English-medium university, so th...

Teaching and Learning Signed Languages examines current practices, contexts, and the research nexus in the teaching and learning of signed language...

This book presents the latest work in the field of complementation studies. Leading scholars and upcoming researchers in the area approach compleme...

In this introduction to the semiotic theory of one of the most innovative theorists of the twentieth century, the Russian literary scholar and semi...

What if the problems of modern society don't come from production, but rather consumption and the system of cultural signs? In this classic work fr...

This book presents the first computer program automating the task of componential analysis of kinship vocabularies. The book examines the program i...

This book documents changes and trends in English predicate complementation. In-depth case studies of grammatical patterns presented here uncover n...