Author: Juri Lotman Publisher: Walter de Gruyter ISBN: 3110218453 Category : Culture Languages : en Pages : 236
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Demonstrates, with copious examples, how culture influences the way that humans experience 'reality'. This work is suitable for students and researchers in semiotics, cultural/literary studies and Russian studies worldwide, as well as anyone with an interest in understanding contemporary intellectual life.
Author: Svenja Völkel Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3110727153 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 554
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This book provides an overview of approaches to language and culture, and it outlines the broad interdisciplinary field of anthropological linguistics and linguistic anthropology. It identifies current and future directions of research, including language socialization, language reclamation, speech styles and genres, language ideology, verbal taboo, social indexicality, emotion, time, and many more. Furthermore, it offers areal perspectives on the study of language in cultural contexts (namely Africa, the Americas, Australia and Oceania, Mainland Southeast Asia, and Europe), and it lays the foundation for future developments within the field. In this way, the book bridges the disciplines of cultural anthropology and linguistics and paves the way for the new book series Anthropological Linguistics.
Author: Umberto Eco Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 9780253203984 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 260
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"Eco wittily and enchantingly develops themes often touched on in his previous works, but he delves deeper into their complex nature . . . this collection can be read with pleasure by those unversed in semiotic theory." —Times Literary Supplement
Author: Edna Andrews Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 9780802036865 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 240
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Edna Andrews builds a narrative around Lotman's work by presenting the major principles of his cultural semiotic theory, including his doctrine of signs, his definition of the 'semiosphere', and his modelling of communication as a means to create new knowledge and to share old knowledge."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Michael Silverstein Publisher: ISBN: 9780986132544 Category : Semiotics Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book offers a rich assortment of some of Michael Silverstein's most important lectures at the University of Chicago over the past forty years, all of which converge on theoretical issues involved in the semiotic, cognitive, and sociopolitical study of language and communication. Together they provide an overdue home to an impressive body of thought that has otherwise only been available via unofficial distribution--in hand-written notes, audio recordings, and other media--by longtime fans and students. Developing and employing semiotic concepts, these lectures concentrate on two central and inverse problems. The first is to understand how interpersonal communication is carried in and by the medium of language. The second is to understand how language is a defining factor in conceptual representations and mental knowledge. Exploring the diversity of sources of knowledge and the many forms of language they can be coded into, Silverstein details the modes of semiosis of which language is composed, in particular those that express cultural knowledge and conceptualization. A sophisticated study of language as a form of interaction, these lectures offer one of the most important contributions to linguistics and anthropological semiotics since Ferdinand de Saussure.
Author: Irene Portis Winner Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3110823136 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 296
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Author: Robin P. Fawcett Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 147424713X Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 210
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Semiotics - the study of the general principles of signs and sign systems – is crucial to an understanding of human nature, both social and psychological. The sign systems that we use for interaction with other living beings determine our potential for thought and social action, and language is central among them. It is the implicit claim of this two-volume work that linguistics has something very specific to give to semiotics, and many would further claim that relational network models of language in particular, i.e. systematic and stratificational linguistics, have a fundamental contribution to make.
Author: Karen Risager Publisher: Multilingual Matters ISBN: 1853598585 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 227
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The book presents a new theory of the relationship between language and culture in a transnational and global perspective. The fundamental view is that languages spread across cultures, and cultures spread across languages, or in other words, that linguistic and cultural practices flow through social networks in the world along partially different paths and across national structures and communities.
Author: Thomas A. Sebeok Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 9780253339577 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 274
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The study of semiotics underwent a gradual but radical paradigm shift during the past century, from a glottocentric (language-centered) enterprise to one that encompasses the whole terrestrial biosphere. In this collection of 17 essays, Thomas A. Sebeok, one of the seminal thinkers in the field, shows how this progression took place. His wide-ranging discussion of the evolution of the field covers many facets, including discussions of biosemiotics, semiotics as a bridge between the humanities and natural sciences, semiosis, nonverbal communication, cat and horse behavior, the semiotic self, and women in semiotics. This thorough account will appeal to seasoned scholars and neophytes alike.
Author: Juri Lotman
Author: Svenja Völkel
Author: Umberto Eco
Author: Edna Andrews
Author: Michael Silverstein
Author: Irene Portis Winner
Author: Robin P. Fawcett
Author: Robin P. Fawcett
Author: Karen Risager
Author: Thomas A. Sebeok