Semiotics / semiology

This pioneering book presents a reconstitution of Charles Sanders Peirce philosophical system as a coherent architecture of concepts that form a unified theory of reality.

The Shape of the Signifier is a critique of recent theory--primarily literary but also cultural and political.

The erotic and the intellectual come together to create a new kind of criticism in the lushly written work of Joanna Frueh.

During the last 300 years circus clowns have emerged as powerful cultural icons.

`The aestheticization of everyday life' has become a commonplace term, one which often merely scratches the surface of contemporary culture.

This book fills a gap in the literature as it uniquely approaches onomastics from the perspective of both anthropology and linguistics.

There has been almost no study of the American writings of Henry James, that is, the fiction, essays, and travel literature with an American setting.

This volume explores the meaning of the architectural creative act, following the dynamics of the relationship between creator-creative act-creation and the way in which architecture is defined over time, as a creative act both material and symbolic.

This book presents cutting-edge research on various ways to bridge the semantic gap in image and video analysis.

This collection highlights a range of perspectives on the emerging body of research on evolutionary pragmatics, expanding the borders of language evolution research and indicating exciting new directions for the future of the field.

The founder of both American pragmatism and semiotics, Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is widely regarded as an enormously important and pioneering theorist.

Many writers in antebellum America sought to reinvent the Bible, but no one, Ilana Pardes argues, was as insistent as Melville on redefining biblical exegesis while doing so.

This collected volume celebrates the life and work of the late Andrew Stables, a renowned scholar in semiotics and in educational philosophy and theory.

Focusing on the electronic media-television, radio, and the Internet-Audience Economics bridges a substantial gap in the literature by providing an integrated framework for understanding the various businesses involved in generating and selling audiences to advertisers.

This Pivot studies the influence of Julia Kristeva's work on American literary and film studies.

The volume draws from Charles S.

This book brings together selected revised papers representing a multidisciplinary approach to language, music, and gesture, as well as their interaction.

Mark Twain is one of our most accessible cultural icons, a figure familiar to virtually every American and renowned internationally.

This book contains papers that were written to honor Professor Lyn Frazier on the occasion of her retirement from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Steven Cassedy takes aim at two of the most enduring myths of modern criticism: that it is secular, and that it is new and autonomous.

Drawing on recent feminist and psychoanalytic criticism, Cinzia Sartini Blum provides the first analysis of the rhetoric, politics, and psychology of gender in the avant-garde writings of the Italian Futurist F.

This book proposes a radically evolutionary approach to biolinguistics that consists in considering human language as a form of species-specific intelligence entirely embodied in the corporeal structures of Homo sapiens.

This book combines an authoritative examination of the field of discourse-based research with practical guidance on research design and development.

Literary Revisionism places Bloom, his ally Geoffrey Hartman, and their contemporary literary situation in a borad historical and theoretical context by exploring the provenance of the revisionist stance in the origins of the New Testament canon, in the works of the Sensibility Poets and the great Romantics, and in the emergence of our own secular modernity.

This book aims to provide a philosophical underpinning to translation and relate translation to development.

Analysis of improvisation as a compositional practice in the Commedia dell'Arte and related traditions from the Renaissance to the 21st century.

This text involves students in understanding and using the "e;tools"e; of critical social and literary theory from the first day of class.

This fourth edition of the bestselling textbook, now available in print, eBook, and audiobook, has been fully updated, continuing to provide a concise introduction to the key concepts of semiotics in accessible and jargon-free language.

This book reports on cutting-edge concepts related to Bourbaki's notion of structures meres.

The book provides a historical (with an outline of the history of the concept of truth from antiquity to our time) and systematic exposition of the semantic theory of truth formulated by Alfred Tarski in the 1930s.

This book presents a new approach to semantics based on Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz's Directival Theory of Meaning (DTM), which in effect reduces semantics of the analysed language to the combination of its syntax and pragmatics.

Paul Grice (1913-1988) is best known for his psychological account of meaning, and for his theory of conversational implicature, although these form only part of a large and diverse body of work.

Violations of international law and human rights laws are the plague of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

This collection brings together eighteen of the author's original papers, previously published in a variety of academic journals and edited collections over the last three decades, on the process of interpretation in literature and the visual arts in one comprehensive volume.

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The Shape of the Signifier is a critique of recent theory--primarily literary but also cultural and political.

Complementation has received a great deal of attention in the past fifteen to twenty years; various approcahes have been used to study it and different groups of complement-taking verbs have been examined.

This volume explores the elusive subject of English prosody-the stress, rhythm and intonation of the language-, and its relevance for English language teaching.