Semiotics / semiology

Expression and truth are traditional opposites in Western thought: expression supposedly refers to states of mind, truth to states of affairs.

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).

Scholars from across law and internet and media studies examine the human rights implications of today''s platform society.

Translation, Semiotics, and Feminism: Selected Writings of Barbara Godard brings together 16 of the most important essays by the influential Canadian scholar, situating her thinking in relation to feminism and translation studies from the 1980s through the 2000s.

This book merges recent trends in game studies and multimodal studies to explore the relationship between the interaction between videogames' different modes and the ways in which they inform meaning for both players and designers.

This book investigates Chinese comprehension and treatment of the relationship between language and reality.

This book is an advanced debate on the nature of scalar implicatures, one of the most popular topics in philosophical linguistics in the last 20 years.

Existential semiotics is a new paradigm in the studies of signs, signification and communication.

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

This book present a structure for understanding and exploring the semiotic character of law and law systems.

Multilevel Grounding develops a new approach to musical meaning-Multilevel-Grounded Semantics, addressing the well- known paradox that music seems full of meaning yet there is little consensus among listeners on what exactly it is that this meaning communicates.

This book systematically investigates what follows about meaning in language if current views on the limited, or even redundant, role of linguistic semantics are taken to their radical conclusion.

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

This two-volume set charts a cross-disciplinary discursive terrain that proffers rich insights about deceit in contemporary postcolonial Sub-Saharan African politics.

The translation of legal documents in today's globally interconnected world calls for novel approaches to overcoming traditional language barriers.

This unique collection of essays, accompanied by videos, at last brings a dazzling view of the literary, social, and performative aspects of American Sign Language to a wide audience.

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

This book is simultaneously a theoretical study in morphosyntax and an in-depth empirical study of Hebrew.

Computational semantics is concerned with computing the meanings of linguistic objects such as sentences, text fragments, and dialogue contributions.

This volume brings together some of the most recent developments in the field of experimental pragmatics, specifically empirical approaches to theoretical issues in presupposition theory.

Video games are among the most popular media on the planet, and billions of people inhabit these virtual worlds on a daily basis.

Media semiotics is a valuable method of focusing on the hidden meanings within media texts.

The chapters in this volume address a variety of issues surrounding quotation, such as whether it is a pragmatic or semantic phenomenon, what varieties of quotation exist, and what speech acts are involved in quoting.

Written by a wide range of highly regarded scholars and exciting junior ones, this book critiques and operationalizes contemporary thinking in the rapidly expanding field of linguistic anthropology.

In a stimulating and novel approach, this book explains why metaphors are persuasive, suggesting that they are ideologically effective because they are cognitively plausible and evoke an emotional response.

In A Not So Foreign Affair Andrea Slane investigates the influence of images of Nazism on debates about sexuality that are central to contemporary American political rhetoric.

First published in 1992.

Auf dieses Buch haben die PR-Praktiker, PR-Ausbildungskräfte und Studierende, aber auch alle kommunikationsbewussten Menschen in den Bereichen Wirtschaft, Recht, Gesundheit, Soziales, Politik, Sport und Kultur gewartet.

Contemporary culture is as much visual as literary.

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

Superfluous Women tells the unique story of a generation of artists, feminists, and queer activists who emerged in Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Translation, Semiotics, and Feminism: Selected Writings of Barbara Godard brings together 16 of the most important essays by the influential Canadian scholar, situating her thinking in relation to feminism and translation studies from the 1980s through the 2000s.

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

Victor Dudman's revolutionary English Grammar brings grammar and logic together by conceiving grammar as 'the necessary preliminary to logic'.

This book presents a new theoretical framework for the study of hypnosis based on an innovative epistemological approach called De-sign.

Autoethnography in the 21st Century offers interpretive, analytic, interactive, performative, experiential, and embodied forms of autoethnography from around the globe.

Semantic underspecification is an essential and pervasive property of natural language.