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This classic guide discusses the nature and development of structuralism and semiotics, calling for a new critical awareness of the ways in which we communicate and drawing attention to their implications for our society.
Semiotics (the study of sign processes - 'semiosis' - and sign systems) embraces linguistics, philosophy, and literary studies, as well as linking to anthropology, art, psychology, and biology. This title illustrates the development of semiotics and its applications.
Charles Sanders Peirce is generally regarded as the founder of pragmatism, North America’s most influential philosophical movement. Peirce is also well-known for his theory of signs and with... Læs mere
In this challenging and important book, Harris proposes and explanatory account of communication which accords with our lay understanding of human existence.
Icons of Power investigates why the image of the cat has been such a potent symbol in the art, religion, and mythology of indigenous American cultures for three thousand years.
This book brings together social semiotics, cultural studies, postcolonial theory, and other approaches in order to theorize very different learning environments, giving visibility to the modal effect in a range of disciplines.
This book presents the thought of Charles S. Peirce and its relevancy to linguistics - in particular to semiotics, or the study of signs.
This work explores the formative power of signs and their impact on the mind, the body and subjectivity, giving special attention to work of the French analyst Jacques Lacan and the American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce.
This collection of essays brings together both historical studies and contemporary theoretical perspectives on vision. It seeks to trace the influence of vision on feminism, race, gender, sexual orientation, film and art.
A comprehensive introductory study considering the full range of Barthes' work, from his early structuralist phase, through his poststructuralist explorations of "text" to his late writings. It includes an examination of the relationship between the critical and the personal.