Semiotics/Semiology

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...