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The Quest for Meaning
A Guide to Semiotic Theory and Practice, Second Edition
Price:
$38.95
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
An Ontology of Relations
Price:
$42.95
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
Why Information Is Not Enough
Price:
$54.00
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
From WWII to the WWW
Price:
$35.95
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
Problems of Intention, Irony, and Interpretation
Price:
$35.95
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
The First Postmodern Survey of Philosophy from Ancient Times to the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
Price:
$79.00
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
Semiotic and Pragmatic in Mass Media
Price:
$100.00
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
The Genius of Language and Italian National Identity
Price:
$106.00
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
Traversing Chinese and Western Theories of the Sign
Price:
$62.00
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
Price:
$62.00
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 Emergence of Language, the Human Mind, and Culture
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$47.95
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
Educational Psychology as a Science of Signs
Price:
$90.00
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
Price:
$53.00
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
Peirce and Film Aesthetics, Narration, and Representation
Price:
$149.00
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
A Study in Modality and Literary Theory
Price:
$81.00
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
The Implications of Cultural Semiotics in Language, Literature, and Cognition
Price:
$107.00
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.

The Quest for Meaning
A Guide to Semiotic Theory and Practice, Second Edition
$38.95
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
An Ontology of Relations
$42.95
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
Why Information Is Not Enough
$54.00
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
From WWII to the WWW
$35.95
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
Problems of Intention, Irony, and Interpretation
$35.95
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
The First Postmodern Survey of Philosophy from Ancient Times to the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
$79.00
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
Semiotic and Pragmatic in Mass Media
$100.00
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
The Genius of Language and Italian National Identity
$106.00
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
Traversing Chinese and Western Theories of the Sign
$62.00
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
$62.00
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 Emergence of Language, the Human Mind, and Culture
$47.95
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
Educational Psychology as a Science of Signs
$90.00
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
$53.00
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
Peirce and Film Aesthetics, Narration, and Representation
$149.00
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
A Study in Modality and Literary Theory
$81.00
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
The Implications of Cultural Semiotics in Language, Literature, and Cognition
$107.00
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.