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Author : Floyd Merrell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110855647
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Author : Louis Hébert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000760590
An Introduction to Applied Semiotics presents nineteen semiotics tools for text and image analysis. Covering a variety of different schools and approaches, together with the author’s own original approach, this is a full and synthetic introduction to semiotics. This book presents general tools that can be used with any semiotic product. Drawing on the work of Fontanille, Genette, Greimas, Hébert, Jakobson, Peirce, Rastier and Zilberberg, the tools deal with the analysis of themes and action, true and false, positive and negative, rhythm narration and other elements. The application of each tool is illustrated with analyses of a wide range of texts and images, from well-known or distinctive literary texts, philosophical or religious texts or images, paintings, advertising and everyday signs and symbols. Each chapter has the same structure – summary, theory and application, making it ideal for course use. Covering both visual and textual objects, this is a key text for all courses in semiotics and textual analysis within linguistics, communication studies, literary theory, design, marketing and related areas.
Author : Ignasi Ribó
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781783748129
This concise and highly accessible textbook outlines the principles and techniques of storytelling. It is intended as a high-school and college-level introduction to the central concepts of narrative theory – concepts that will aid students in developing their competence not only in analysing and interpreting short stories and novels, but also in writing them. This textbook prioritises clarity over intricacy of theory, equipping its readers with the necessary tools to embark on further study of literature, literary theory and creative writing. Building on a ‘semiotic model of narrative,’ it is structured around the key elements of narratological theory, with chapters on plot, setting, characterisation, and narration, as well as on language and theme – elements which are underrepresented in existing textbooks on narrative theory. The chapter on language constitutes essential reading for those students unfamiliar with rhetoric, while the chapter on theme draws together significant perspectives from contemporary critical theory (including feminism and postcolonialism). This textbook is engaging and easily navigable, with key concepts highlighted and clearly explained, both in the text and in a full glossary located at the end of the book. Throughout the textbook the reader is aided by diagrams, images, quotes from prominent theorists, and instructive examples from classical and popular short stories and novels (such as Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Franz Kafka’s ‘The Metamorphosis,’ J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter, or Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, amongst many others). Prose Fiction: An Introduction to the Semiotics of Narrative can either be incorporated as the main textbook into a wider syllabus on narrative theory and creative writing, or it can be used as a supplementary reference book for readers interested in narrative fiction. The textbook is a must-read for beginning students of narratology, especially those with no or limited prior experience in this area. It is of especial relevance to English and Humanities major students in Asia, for whom it was conceived and written.
Author : Gianfranco Marrone
Publisher : De Gruyter Mouton
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-08
Category : Mass media
ISBN : 3111259420
This book aims to demonstrate how semiotic models of textual analysis can be used to study any social reality or cultural process. In addition, it shows how semiotic models work by using examples from everyday life and social praxis, communicative processes and modes of consumption, online interactions and cross-media procedures, political experiences and scientific universes. This is the most complete synthesis of structural and generative semiotics in English, presenting in eminently approachable form the theory of Greimas and post-Greimassian scholars.
Author : Y. Tobin
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027232922
This volume contains selected contributions from the colloquium From Sign to Text' (Ben Gurion University, 1985) and combines the diverse interdisciplinary interests and approaches of the contributors in a fundamentally shared definition of language seen as a flexible and open-ended system of systems' revolving around the notion of signs used by human beings to communicate. The special interrelationship between signs and texts is discussed both theoretically and methodologically. The collection consists of an English and a French section.
Author : Winfried Noth
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1990-09-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0253209595
History and Classics of Modern Semiotics -- Sign and Meaning -- Semiotics, Code, and the Semiotic Field -- Language and Language-Based Codes -- From Structuralism to Text Semiotics: Schools and Major Figures -- Text Semiotics: The Field -- Nonverbal Communication -- Aesthetics and Visual Communication.
Author : Jørgen Dines Johansen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802035779
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.
Author : Юрий Михайлович Лотман
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 025321405X
Universe of the Mind A Semiotic Theory of Culture Yuri M. Lotman Introduction by Umberto Eco Translated by Ann Shukman A major book by one of the initiators of cultural studies. "Universe of the Mind is an ambitious, complex, and wide-ranging book that semioticians, textual critics, and those interested in cultural studies will find stimulating and immensely suggestive." --Journal of Communication "Soviet semiotics offers a distinctive, richly productive approach to literary and cultural studies and Universe of the Mind represents a summation of the intellectual career of the man who has done most to guarantee this." --Slavic and East European Journal Universe of the Mind addresses three main areas: meaning and text, culture, and history. The result is a full-scale attempt to demonstrate the workings of the semiotic space or intellectual world. Part One is concerned with the ways that texts generate meaning. Part Two addresses Lotman's central idea of the semiosphere--the domain in which all semiotic systems can function--presented through an analogy with the global biosphere. Part Three focuses on semiotics from the point of view of history. A seminal text in cultural semiotics, the book's ambitious scope also makes it applicable to disciplines outside semiotics. The book will be of great interest to those concerned with cultural studies, anthropology, Slavic studies, critical theory, philosophy, and historiography. Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman is the founder of the Moscow-Tartu School and the initiator of the discipline of cultural semiotics.
Author : Marcel Danesi,Paul Perron
Publisher : Legas
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1894508475
This anthology of classic readings, in semiotic theory and practice is intended to provide supplementary resource designed to give a first-hand glimpse into a selection of those texts that have either laid the foundation of the semiotic theoretical edifice or else helped shape its contemporary form.
Author : Robert Scholes
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0300030932
The book offers . . . a clutch of examples of semiotics usefully and intelligently applied, which Scholes's patient, cheerful tone and his resolutely concrete vocabulary manage to combine into a breezily informative American confection.-Terence Hawkes, Times Literary Supplement
Author : Marcel Danesi
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781487531034
Dating back to antiquity, semiotics is both a "technique" and a "science" that aims to understand the nature of meaning. An academic discipline in its own right, semiotics uses signs, such as words and symbols, to think, communicate, reflect, transmit, and preserve knowledge. Since the initial publication of The Quest for Meaning in 2007, the world has changed dramatically with the advent of online culture, new technologies, and new ways of making signs and symbols. Updated to reflect these many changes, the second edition includes a comprehensive chapter on the use of semiotics in the Internet age. Written in a student-friendly style, featuring examples from everyday life, the book explains what semiotics is all about and why it is so important for gaining insights into our elusive and mysterious human nature.
Author : Seymour Chatman,Umberto Eco,Jean M. Klinkenberg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1268 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110803327
No detailed description available for "A Semiotic Landscape. Panorama sémiotique".
Author : Umberto Eco
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0253202175
" . . . the greatest contribution to [semiotics] since the pioneering work of C. S. Peirce and Charles Morris." —Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism " . . . draws on philosophy, linguistics, sociology, anthropology and aesthetics and refers to a wide range of scholarship . . . raises many fascinating questions." —Language in Society " . . . a major contribution to the field of semiotic studies." —Robert Scholes, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism " . . . the most significant text on the subject published in the English language that I know of." —Arthur Asa Berger, Journal of Communication Eco's treatment demonstrates his mastery of the field of semiotics. It focuses on the twin problems of the doctrine of signs—communication and signification—and offers a highly original theory of sign production, including a carefully wrought typology of signs and modes of production.
Author : Umberto Eco
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0253208696
Presents four theories describing the limits of literary interpretation, challenging "the cancer of uncontrolled interpretation" that diminishes the meaning and the basis of communication. -- Back cover.
Author : Khaled Besbes
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781612335070
The present work seeks to bring literary theory in line with the most recent practical turn the humanities are witnessing. When simplified, succinctly presented, and skillfully used in multi-coded interpretation within a semiocritical framework, literary theories become practical exercises in criticism, not only facilitating the interpretation of literature, but also making it more enjoyable and more rewarding. This book is different from its counterparts in the sense that it includes an exceptionally expanded model of the practice of literary theories, and replaces long and theoretical discussions with brief synopses of the examined theories. It relies on less-overused texts for illustration as it compiles and organizes the terms and phrases that are often used by the proponents of the discussed theories. The most influential literary theories that have so far been developed in academia are included: the New Criticism, reader-response criticism, structuralism, deconstruction, feminism, Marxism, psychoanalytic criticism, linguistic criticism, cultural materialism, new historicism, postcolonialism, and semiotics. Through eliminating the excesses made in the name of theory, this book will restore the faith of students, teachers, and practitioners in the useful and enduring nature of literary theory for the analysis and appreciation of literature.