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The Quest for Meaning

The Quest for Meaning

A Guide to Semiotic Theory and Practice, Second Edition

by Marcel Danesi

Price: $35.95

ISBN: 9781487523510

Pub Date: September 2020

The go-to introductory guide to semiotic theory and practice, this second edition features a new chapter on semiotics in the digital age and sheds light on how we grasp for meaning in the modern world.

The Primacy of Semiosis

The Primacy of Semiosis

An Ontology of Relations

by Paul Bains

Price: $39.95

ISBN: 9781442626980

Pub Date: January 2014

The Primacy of Semiosis provides a semiotic that subverts the opposition between realism and idealism; one in which what have been called 'nature' and 'culture' interpenetrate in an expanding collective of human and non-human.

Cybersemiotics

Cybersemiotics

Why Information Is Not Enough

by Soren Brier

Price: $51.00

ISBN: 9781442626362

Pub Date: August 2013

Cybersemiotics not only builds a bridge between science and culture, it provides a framework that encompasses them both.

Remodelling Communication

Remodelling Communication

From WWII to the WWW

by Gary Genosko

Price: $32.95

ISBN: 9781442615830

Pub Date: May 2013

Providing a dynamic, forward-looking reorientation towards a new universe of reference, Remodelling Communication makes a significant, productive contribution to communication theory.

Joyces Mistakes

Joyces Mistakes

Problems of Intention, Irony, and Interpretation

by Tim Conley

Price: $32.95

ISBN: 9781442612983

Pub Date: October 2011

In Joyces Mistakes, Tim Conley explores the question of what constitutes an 'error' in a work of art. Using the works of James Joyce, particularly Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, as central exploratory fields, Conley argues that an 'aesthetic of error' permeates Joyce's literary productions.

Four Ages of Understanding

Four Ages of Understanding

The First Postmodern Survey of Philosophy from Ancient Times to the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

by John Deely

Price: $75.00

ISBN: 9781442613010

Pub Date: October 2011

The first full-scale demonstration of the centrality of the theory of signs to the history of philosophy, Four Ages of Understanding provides a new vantage point from which to review and reinterpret the development of intellectual culture at the threshold of "globalization".

Power of Scandal

Power of Scandal

Semiotic and Pragmatic in Mass Media

by P. Johannes Ehrat, SJ

Price: $95.00

ISBN: 9781442641259

Pub Date: March 2011

By examining the parallel worlds of media and public opinion, Power of Scandal uses an alternative heuristic for understanding mass communication that is both rigorous and sophisticated.

Irresistible Signs

Irresistible Signs

The Genius of Language and Italian National Identity

by Paola Gambarota

Price: $101.00

ISBN: 9781442642980

Pub Date: February 2011

In Irresistible Signs, Paola Gambarota investigates the connection between Italian language and national identity over four hundred years, from late-Renaissance linguistic theories to nineteenth-century nationalist myths.

Parallels, Interactions, and Illuminations

Parallels, Interactions, and Illuminations

Traversing Chinese and Western Theories of the Sign

by Ersu Ding

Price: $59.00

ISBN: 9781442640481

Pub Date: November 2010

The first major work in Sino-Western comparative semiotics, Parallels, Interactions, and Illuminations is a trans-disciplinary and intercultural effort that makes intellectual connections not only across diverse academic fields but also between Chinese and Western theories of the sign.

On the Comic and Laughter

On the Comic and Laughter

by Vladimir Propp

Edited and translated by Jean-Patrick Debbèche and Paul J. Perron

Price: $59.00

ISBN: 9780802099266

Pub Date: November 2009

The author of the widely acclaimed Morphology of the Folktale has written an original, comprehensive, and exciting study on how humour works, and on everything you wanted to know about the genre, in a clear, approachable, and insightful manner.

The Extended Mind

The Extended Mind

The Emergence of Language, the Human Mind, and Culture

by Robert K. Logan

Price: $44.95

ISBN: 9780802096432

Pub Date: June 2008

In The Extended Mind, Robert K. Logan examines the origin, emergence, and co-evolution of language, the human mind, and culture.

Teaching Adolescents

Teaching Adolescents

Educational Psychology as a Science of Signs

by Howard Smith

Price: $86.00

ISBN: 9780802090997

Pub Date: March 2007

Grounded in the semiotic thought of Charles Sanders Peirce, America's greatest polymath, Howard A. Smith's Teaching Adolescents addresses topics in educational psychology from a semiotic or sign-based perspective rather than a behavioural one.

Deleuze and Space

Deleuze and Space

Edited by Ian Buchanan and Gregg Lambert

Price: $50.00

ISBN: 9780802093905

Pub Date: August 2005

This collection takes up the challenge of thinking spatially by exploring Deleuze's spatial concepts in applied contexts: architecture, cinema, urban planning, political philosophy, and metaphysics.

Cinema and Semiotic

Cinema and Semiotic

Peirce and Film Aesthetics, Narration, and Representation

by P. Johannes Ehrat, SJ

Price: $142.00

ISBN: 9780802039125

Pub Date: March 2005

Based on Peirce's Semiotic and Pragmatism, Ehrat offers a novel approach to cinematic meaning in three central areas: narrative enunciation, cinematic world appropriation, and cinematic perception.

Poiesis and Possible Worlds

Poiesis and Possible Worlds

A Study in Modality and Literary Theory

by Thomas L. Martin

Price: $77.00

ISBN: 9780802036414

Pub Date: October 2004

Martin argues that literary studies remain mired in the anomalies of a linguistic methodology derived from early 20th-century language philosophy, a view challenged not only by theoretical physics, but also by compelling advances in philosophic semantics.

Conversations with Lotman

Conversations with Lotman

The Implications of Cultural Semiotics in Language, Literature, and Cognition

by Edna Andrews

Price: $102.00

ISBN: 9780802036865

Pub Date: September 2003

Andrews grapples with Lotman's difficult, sometimes contradictory, theories of human language, perception, and memory, offering semioticians the opportunity to read the first sustained study of Lotman's work in English.

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