Semiotics / semiology

The Language of Asian Gestures explores Asian gestures as a non-verbal language within the context of films and dramas.

In 1997, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist J.

The Beatles and the Beatlesque address a paradox emanating from The Beatles' music through a cross-disciplinary hybrid of reflections, drawing from both, musical practice itself and academic research.

Edmund Husserl's ideas, informed by Kant's Critiques, constituted a point of departure when rereading philosophical problems of subject and subjectivity.

El presente documento tiene como propósito plantear elementos de discusión cuyo objetivo de largo aliento es ampliar los estudios en torno a la forma como la publicidad puede dar lugar a la descripción, el análisis y la interpretación de las prácticas sociales y culturales que caracterizan cada época.

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.

Iceberg semantics is a new framework of Boolean semantics for mass nouns and count nouns in which the interpretation of a noun phrase rises up from a generating base and floats with its base on its Boolean part set, like an iceberg.

This is the first volume specifically dedicated to competition in inflection and word-formation, a topic that has increasingly attracted attention.

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

Tracing the roots of urban graffiti including tags, bombs, street art, murals, and latrinalia through modern history, this book explores the contemporary uses of graffiti.

Tracing the roots of urban graffiti including tags, bombs, street art, murals, and latrinalia through modern history, this book explores the contemporary uses of graffiti.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Introducing semiotic methods for understanding the hidden meanings within media texts, this book explores the implications the mediasphere has on human interaction and cultural evolution.

Introducing semiotic methods for understanding the hidden meanings within media texts, this book explores the implications the mediasphere has on human interaction and cultural evolution.

An interpretive approach to current literary criticism grounded in critical histories and an openness to the unpredictability of readingRethinking the relationship of current literary criticism to the discipline's past, Reading the Literary Past presents an interpretive approach to literary criticism grounded in critical histories rather than methods, attentive to the idiosyncrasy of reading and the contingencies influencing it.

An interpretive approach to current literary criticism grounded in critical histories and an openness to the unpredictability of readingRethinking the relationship of current literary criticism to the discipline's past, Reading the Literary Past presents an interpretive approach to literary criticism grounded in critical histories rather than methods, attentive to the idiosyncrasy of reading and the contingencies influencing it.