Semiotics/Semiology

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...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Newspaper is about more than news printed...

During the first decade of the 21st century, the world did not experience a major pandemic nor a war at the borders of Europe. Many events, more or...

This book is the beginning of a conversation across Social Semiotics, Translanguaging, Complexity Theory and Radical Sociolinguistics. In its explo...

This book is the beginning of a conversation across Social Semiotics, Translanguaging, Complexity Theory and Radical Sociolinguistics. In its explo...

This intellectual biography covers the trajectory of Batesons career, from his anthropological work in Bali alongside his wife, Margaret Mead, to h...

Brilliantly articulating the potent intersections of semiotic and linguistic anthropology, Signs and Society demonstrates how a keen appreciation o...

Ostentation of the Subject is a practice that is asserting itself ever more in today's world. Consequently, criticism by philosophers, psychologist...

Luxury has been both celebrated and condemned throughout history right up to the present day. This groundbreaking text examines luxury and its rela...

Showcases the energy and diversity of the young field of music semiology, appealing to readers who want to explore the meaning of music in our live...