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Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication

Semiotics is an interpretative science that provides powerful analytical tools for the study of our perception of reality. In recognition of semiotics' interdisciplinary nature, this series publishes original work that promotes interaction between research and theory in semiotics, the communication sciences, and the cognitive sciences.

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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.

Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics, Media, and Communication

Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics, Media, and Communication

Edited by Marcel Danesi

Price: $46.95

ISBN: 9780802083296

Pub Date: August 2000

This compact, practical research manual that will help students, scholars, and general readers alike unlock the significance of the terminology, concepts, and historical movements of semiotics and related fields.

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.

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.

Semiotics Unbounded

Semiotics Unbounded

Interpretive Routes through the Open Network of Signs

by Susan Petrilli and Augusto Ponzio

Price: $144.00

ISBN: 9780802087652

Pub Date: November 2005

Semiotics Unbounded offers a new and original survey of the science of signs, evaluating it in relation to the problems of our time, not only of a scientific order, but also the problems concerning everyday social life.

Semantics and the Body

Semantics and the Body

Meaning from Frege to the Postmodern

by Horst Ruthrof

Price: $46.95

ISBN: 9780802079930

Pub Date: December 1997

Horst Ruthrof argues that the body is an integral part of this hermeneutic activity and proposes that language is no more than a symbolic grid which does not signify at all unless it is brought to life by non-linguistic signs.

Peirce, Signs, and Meaning

Peirce, Signs, and Meaning

by Floyd Merrell

Price: $48.95

ISBN: 9780802079824

Pub Date: May 1997

C.S. Peirce, the founder of pragmatism, was an American philosopher and mathematician whose influence has been enormous on the field of semiotics. Merrell uses Pierce's theories to reply to the all-important question: "What and where is meaning?"

The Textual Society

The Textual Society

by Edwina Taborsky

Price: $36.95

ISBN: 9780802071804

Pub Date: April 1997

Edwina Taborsky moves semiotics away from being a descriptive tool within the humanities and uses its powers of analysis on the organic and social nature of cognition.

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.

Sensing Corporeally

Sensing Corporeally

Toward a Posthuman Understanding

by Floyd Merrell

Price: $102.00

ISBN: 9780802037046

Pub Date: April 2003

Focusing on analogical sensing, rather than digital reasoning, Merrell argues that human sensation and cognition should be thought of in terms of continually changing signs that can be accounted for in terms of topological forms.

Semiotic Insights

Semiotic Insights

The Data Do the Talking

by Irmengard Rauch

Price: $72.00

ISBN: 9780802047052

Pub Date: October 1999

This collection of articles by Irmengard Rauch provides a lucid narrative on the nature of semiotics and linguistics, revealing their symbiotic relationship through concrete, data-based application.

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.

Literary Discourse

Literary Discourse

A Semiotic-Pragmatic Approach to Literature

by Jørgen Dines Johansen

Price: $102.00

ISBN: 9780802035776

Pub Date: September 2002

Using the semiotic theory of American philosopher Charles S. Peirce, Johansen applies psychoanalysis, psychology, literary hermeneutics, literary history, Habermasian communication, and discourse theory to literature, and, in the process, redefines it.

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.

Narratology and Text

Narratology and Text

Subjectivity and Identity in New France and Québécois Literature

by Paul J. Perron

Price: $95.00

ISBN: 9780802036889

Pub Date: March 2003

Fusing semiotics, narratology, stylistics, and literary and cultural theory with one of the only English-language studies on Greimas, this important work offers an original and thought-provoking contribution to studies of literature and semiotics.

Signs

Signs

An Introduction to Semiotics

by Thomas A. Sebeok

Price: $42.95

ISBN: 9780802084729

Pub Date: December 2001

This updated second edition of Signs combines some of Sebeok’s most important essays with a new general introduction, introductory passages at the outset of each chapter, a glossary, and brief biographies of the major semioticians.

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