Unfolding the Semiotic Web in Urban Discourse
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- ISBN 9783631616260
- Weight: 400g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 09 May 2011
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Hardback
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The main focus of this volume is on urbanity as a discursive way of human life in the city. Discourse is specified here in terms of semiotic codes and processes that link city dwellers as communicating selves into interpersonal and intersubjective collectivities when they create and interpret similar meanings embodied in material bearers. Accordingly, the unfolding of the semiotic web is understood, firstly, as detecting and evaluating the growth and manifestation of the sphere of meaning-bearers or a sequence of meaning-bearing events, and secondly, as identifying and explaining the constituents and aspects of discourse in the light of signs and/or sign-processes that aggregate individual participants of communication into discursive linkages on a lower level and discursive communities – on a higher level of social grouping. Some contributions deal with the discursive properties of human individuals in urban environments, and some others are devoted either to the meta-discourses on the city or discourses in the city.
Zdzisław Wąsik is Professor of Linguistic Semiotics and Rector of Philological School of Higher Education in Wrocław (Poland). His didactic experience has been enriched through the cooperation with universities and vocational schools of higher education in Wrocław, Opole, Poznań, and Toruń, as well as in Wałbrzych, and Jelenia Góra. He has published several books and articles on the typology of interrogative utterancees, semiotic and ecological properties of language, and history of linguistic ideas.
