Semiotics / semiology

Fashionable Childhood is the first book to critically examine representations of children and childhood through fashion media.

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

Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award in Language and LinguisticsData.

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

Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award in Language and LinguisticsData.

The Semiotics of Happiness examines the rise of 'happiness' (and its various satellite terminologies) as a social and political semiotic, exploring its origins in the US and subsequent spread into the UK and across the globe.

The Semiotics of Happiness examines the rise of 'happiness' (and its various satellite terminologies) as a social and political semiotic, exploring its origins in the US and subsequent spread into the UK and across the globe.

Alberto Korda's famous photograph of Che Guevara titled the "e;Guerrillero Heroico"e; has been reproduced, modified and remixed countless times since it was taken on March 5, 1960, in Havana, Cuba.

Ferdinand de Saussure is commonly regarded as one of the fathers of 20th Century Linguistics.

Alberto Korda's famous photograph of Che Guevara titled the "e;Guerrillero Heroico"e; has been reproduced, modified and remixed countless times since it was taken on March 5, 1960, in Havana, Cuba.

Ferdinand de Saussure is commonly regarded as one of the fathers of 20th Century Linguistics.

The Satyricon of Petronius, a comic novel written in the first century A.

El presente trabajo nace como un intento de brindar una explicación semiótica al aporte de sentido que hace el director de fotografía en la construcción de la narración cinematográfica.

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The problem of the nature of fiction and the problem of nonexistence are closely tied because fiction often talks about nonexistent entities.

From the most prominent thinkers in Latin American philosophy, literature, politics, and social science comes a challenge to conventional theories of globalization.

This book introduces a theory, Naive Semantics (NS), a theory of the knowledge underlying natural language understanding.

For some time now, the study of cognitive development has been far and away the most active discipline within developmental psychology.

It is very common in Indo-European languages to derive new, compound verb forms from verb bases by adding prefixes to them.

Chinese Syntactic Grammar: Functional and Conceptual Principles is unique in that it discusses the organizational principles of Chinese syntactic structures in terms of conceptual and functional principles, which are iconic and hence are easy to understand and apply.

The Growth and Structure of Elizabethan Comedy is a rich exploration of the evolution, dynamics, and cultural underpinnings of comedy during the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.

'Arguably the most important intellectual alive' New York Times An indispensable collection of Noam Chomsky s talks on the past, present and future of the politics of power Noam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the world s leading intellectuals of the modern era.

A fascinating account of how the law determines or dismantles identity and personhoodAbused dogs, prisoners tortured in Guantanamo and supermax facilities, or slaves killed by the state-all are deprived of personhood through legal acts.

This is an original book, covering all the past areas of research anyone would need to know about festivals and 'event-based culture'.

A growing field of inquiry, biosemiotics is a theory of cognition and communication that unites the living and the cultural world.

Semiotics, Media Studies and Communication Studies are three closely interlinked fields.

Attempting to bridge the gap between specialised scholarship in the humanistic disciplines and an interdisciplinary project of cultural analysis, Mieke Bal has written an intellectual travel guide that charts the course 'beyond' cultural studies.

A growing field of inquiry, biosemiotics is a theory of cognition and communication that unites the living and the cultural world.

Attempting to bridge the gap between specialised scholarship in the humanistic disciplines and an interdisciplinary project of cultural analysis, Mieke Bal has written an intellectual travel guide that charts the course 'beyond' cultural studies.

Semiotics, Media Studies and Communication Studies are three closely interlinked fields.

In this book Umberto Eco argues that translation is not about comparing two languages, but about the interpretation of a text in two different languages, thus involving a shift between cultures.

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.

Equivocation replaced Thomistic analogy as a means of predicting God in the minds of many seventeenth-century divines.

In this book Umberto Eco argues that translation is not about comparing two languages, but about the interpretation of a text in two different languages, thus involving a shift between cultures.

Drawings and sequential images are an integral part of human expression dating back at least as far as cave paintings, and in contemporary society appear most prominently in comics.

Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) is generally considered one of the main founders of modern linguistics and semiotics.

What is semiotics?

Drawings and sequential images are an integral part of human expression dating back at least as far as cave paintings, and in contemporary society appear most prominently in comics.

Following the heyday of L vi-Straussian structuralism in the 1970s-80s, little attention has been paid by scholars of religion to semiotics.

Following the heyday of L vi-Straussian structuralism in the 1970s-80s, little attention has been paid by scholars of religion to semiotics.

Semiotic Margins analyses the meaning making potential of not only language, but modalities like laughter, music, colour, and architectural spaces.

Contemporary culture is as much visual as literary.

One of the first attempts ever to present in a systematic way a non-western semiotic system.

Drink, as an embodied semiotic and material form, mediates social life.

One of the first attempts ever to present in a systematic way a non-western semiotic system.