Semiotics / semiology

This edited book seeks to bridge a gap in the existing literature on nouns, by exploring the exact relationship between their formal and semantic characteristics.

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

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.

Natural human communication is multimodal.

Natural human communication is multimodal.

Semiotics has ever-changing vistas in consonance with changes in the ever-increasing complexity of life on Planet Earth.

This accessible introduction to multimodality illuminates the potential of multimodal research for understanding the ways in which people communicate.

Patterson follows the fortunes of Virgil's Eclogues from the Middle Ages to our own century.

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

This book examines practices on the relationship between sign and meaning in the Pre-Imperial period of China from the semiotics perspective.

The book establishes a correlation between architectural theory and the biosemiotic project, and suggest how this coupling establishes a framework leading to an architectural-biosemiotic paradigm that puts biosemiotic theory at the heart of cognising the built environment, and offers an approach to understanding and shaping the built environment that supports (and benefits) human, and organismic, spatial intelligence.

This book examines practices on the relationship between sign and meaning in the Pre-Imperial period of China from the semiotics perspective.

The book establishes a correlation between architectural theory and the biosemiotic project, and suggest how this coupling establishes a framework leading to an architectural-biosemiotic paradigm that puts biosemiotic theory at the heart of cognising the built environment, and offers an approach to understanding and shaping the built environment that supports (and benefits) human, and organismic, spatial intelligence.

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

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

You're trying to finish a screenplay, but there's a voice in your ear whispering, "e;You should know more about how cinema story works.

Este volumen es continuidad de Semiótica y política en el discurso público, que publicamos en 2022.

You're trying to finish a screenplay, but there's a voice in your ear whispering, "e;You should know more about how cinema story works.

Azade Seyhan provides a concise, elegantly argued introduction to the critical theory of German Romanticism and demonstrates how its approach to the metaphorical and linguistic nature of knowledge is very much alive in contemporary philosophy and literary theory.

Few twentieth-century thinkers have proven as influential as Walter Benjamin, the German-Jewish philosopher and cultural and literary critic.

Can words do damage?

Modernism valorizes the marginal, the exile, the "e;other"e;-yet we tend to use writing from the most commonly read European languages (English, French, German) as examples of this marginality.

"e;At last, a scrupulous and sustained--'earsighted'--study of that shadowy yet vital intersection of sound and sense without which literary reading remains a disembodied exercise.

Taking Wittgenstein's "e;Don't think, but look"e; as his motto, Richard Strier argues against the application of a priori schemes to Renaissance (and all) texts.

In this compelling account of the "e;peasants' revolt"e; of 1381, in which rebels burned hundreds of official archives and attacked other symbols of authority, Steven Justice demonstrates that the rebellion was not an uncontrolled, inarticulate explosion of peasant resentment but an informed and tactical claim to literacy and rule.

From the Preface: The title for this collection was the title of a course in literary criticism that I gave for many years at Bennington College.

In Italy Angelo Beolco, called Ruzante, is recognized as the most original of the Italian Renaissance dramatists.

In a book that radically and fundamentally revises the way we think about war, Miriam Cooke charts the emerging tradition of women's contributions to what she calls the "e;War Story,"e; a genre formerly reserved for men.

Litvak demonstrates that private experience in the novels of Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Eliot, and James is a rigorous enactment of a public script that constructs normative gender and class identities.

John Miles Foley offers an innovative and straightforward approach to the structural analysis of oral and oral-derived traditional texts.

Reading Sappho considers Sappho's poetry as a powerful, influential voice in the Western cultural tradition.

The continual, unpredictable, and often violent "e;traffic"e; between identities in colonial and postcolonial India is the focus of Parama Roy's stimulating and original book.

Azade Seyhan provides a concise, elegantly argued introduction to the critical theory of German Romanticism and demonstrates how its approach to the metaphorical and linguistic nature of knowledge is very much alive in contemporary philosophy and literary theory.

Few twentieth-century thinkers have proven as influential as Walter Benjamin, the German-Jewish philosopher and cultural and literary critic.

Can words do damage?

Modernism valorizes the marginal, the exile, the "e;other"e;-yet we tend to use writing from the most commonly read European languages (English, French, German) as examples of this marginality.

"e;At last, a scrupulous and sustained--'earsighted'--study of that shadowy yet vital intersection of sound and sense without which literary reading remains a disembodied exercise.

Taking Wittgenstein's "e;Don't think, but look"e; as his motto, Richard Strier argues against the application of a priori schemes to Renaissance (and all) texts.

In this compelling account of the "e;peasants' revolt"e; of 1381, in which rebels burned hundreds of official archives and attacked other symbols of authority, Steven Justice demonstrates that the rebellion was not an uncontrolled, inarticulate explosion of peasant resentment but an informed and tactical claim to literacy and rule.

The Feminine Sublime provides a new and startling insight into the modes and devices employed in the creation of women's fiction since the eighteenth century.

From the Preface: The title for this collection was the title of a course in literary criticism that I gave for many years at Bennington College.

In Italy Angelo Beolco, called Ruzante, is recognized as the most original of the Italian Renaissance dramatists.

In a book that radically and fundamentally revises the way we think about war, Miriam Cooke charts the emerging tradition of women's contributions to what she calls the "e;War Story,"e; a genre formerly reserved for men.