Semiotics / semiology

This engaging book examines the origins and first effects of the concept 'legal semiotics', focusing on the inventor of the term, Roberta Kevelson (1931-1998).

In our everyday speech we represent events and situations, but we also provide commentary on these representations, situating ourselves and others relative to what we have to say and situating what we say in larger contexts.

This book deals with the fundamental semantics of images of Europe, which consist of valences, mirror beliefs and affectivities.

This book defends a novel view of mental representation-of how, as thinkers, we represent the world as being.

This edited volume is the first specialized book in English about the Swiss zoologist and anthropologist Adolf Portmann (1897-1982).

This book examines the nature of human language and the ideology of linguistic legitimacy - the common set of beliefs about language differences that leads to the rejection of some language varieties and the valorization of others.

This edited volume provides a biosemiotic analysis of the ecological relationship between food and medicine.

This book uncovers properties of focus association with 'only' by examining the interaction between the particle and bare (or "e;evaluative"e;) gradable terms.

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

This volume is the first to focus specifically on experimental studies of the semantics of gradability, scale structure and vagueness.

Does a novel focus on one life or many?

Until now, most works on the history of African Americans in advertising have focused on the depiction of blacks in advertisements.

This book examines the problem of relationships between culture and space.

Giorgio Prodi (1928-1987) was an important Italian scientist who developed an original philosophy based on two basic assumptions: 1.

This book analyses intersemiotic translation, where the translator works across sign systems and cultural boundaries.

This book proposes an interdisciplinary methodology for developing an intercultural use of law so as to include cultural differences and their protection within legal discourse; this is based on an analysis of the sensory grammar tacitly included in categorizations.

This highly readable book develops a numanistic, and specifically semiotic approach to multiculturalism.

Upholds "e;a Disney vacation as a religious experience .

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

The mute gestures of advertising images are frozen for posterity by photographers and illustrators, gestures that, for better or worse, perpetuate a certain aesthetic and eventually become emblematic of a period.

This collection brings together perspectives on the interplay of communication, dialogue, and responsibility, exploring communicative acts of disruption toward a social environment attuned to short-sighted individualism.

In 1997, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist J.

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 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.

What is translation?

What is translation?

This volume is the first edited collection that offers various theoretical and analytical perspectives on migration narratives in children's picturebooks.

This volume is the first edited collection that offers various theoretical and analytical perspectives on migration narratives in children's picturebooks.