Signs In Culture

Author : Vera da Silva Sinha,Ana Moreno-Núñez,Zhen Tian
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027261243

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Language, Culture and Identity – Signs of Life by Vera da Silva Sinha,Ana Moreno-Núñez,Zhen Tian Pdf

The dynamics of language, culture and identity are a major focus for many linguists and cognitive and cultural researchers. This book explores the inextricable connection that language has with cultural identity and cultural practices, with a particular emphasis on how they contribute to shaping personal identity. The volume brings together selected peer-reviewed papers from the 7th International Conference on Language, Culture and Mind with other specially commissioned chapters. Like the conference, this book aims to enhance mutual understanding among researchers from diverse disciplinary and theoretical perspectives, offering a wealth of insights to a wide range of readers on recent culturally oriented cognitive studies of language.

Author : Betty R. McGraw,Steven Ungar
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1587292416

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Signs in Culture by Betty R. McGraw,Steven Ungar Pdf

Author : Arthur Asa Berger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Semiotics
ISBN : PSU:000032889840

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Signs in Contemporary Culture by Arthur Asa Berger Pdf

Author : Margaret Bender
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003-04-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807860052

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Signs of Cherokee Culture by Margaret Bender Pdf

Based on extensive fieldwork in the community of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in western North Carolina, this book uses a semiotic approach to investigate the historic and contemporary role of the Sequoyan syllabary--the written system for representing the sounds of the Cherokee language--in Eastern Cherokee life. The Cherokee syllabary was invented in the 1820s by the respected Cherokee Sequoyah. The syllabary quickly replaced alternative writing systems for Cherokee and was reportedly in widespread use by the mid-nineteenth century. After that, literacy in Cherokee declined, except in specialized religious contexts. But as Bender shows, recent interest in cultural revitalization among the Cherokees has increased the use of the syllabary in education, publications, and even signage. Bender also explores the role played by the syllabary within the ever more important context of tourism. (The Eastern Cherokee Band hosts millions of visitors each year in the Great Smoky Mountains.) English is the predominant language used in the Cherokee community, but Bender shows how the syllabary is used in special and subtle ways that help to shape a shared cultural and linguistic identity among the Cherokees. Signs of Cherokee Culture thus makes an important contribution to the ethnographic literature on culturally specific literacies.

Author : Douglas C. Baynton
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1998-04-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226039688

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Forbidden Signs by Douglas C. Baynton Pdf

Forbidden Signs explores American culture from the mid-nineteenth century to 1920 through the lens of one striking episode: the campaign led by Alexander Graham Bell and other prominent Americans to suppress the use of sign language among deaf people. The ensuing debate over sign language invoked such fundamental questions as what distinguished Americans from non-Americans, civilized people from "savages," humans from animals, men from women, the natural from the unnatural, and the normal from the abnormal. An advocate of the return to sign language, Baynton found that although the grounds of the debate have shifted, educators still base decisions on many of the same metaphors and images that led to the misguided efforts to eradicate sign language. "Baynton's brilliant and detailed history, Forbidden Signs, reminds us that debates over the use of dialects or languages are really the linguistic tip of a mostly submerged argument about power, social control, nationalism, who has the right to speak and who has the right to control modes of speech."—Lennard J. Davis, The Nation "Forbidden Signs is replete with good things."—Hugh Kenner, New York Times Book Review

Author : Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Communication
ISBN : 9780805811391

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Semiotics and Communication by Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz Pdf

Communication is, among other things, about the study of meaning -- how people convey ideas for themselves and to one another in their daily lives. Designed to close the gap between what we are able to do as social actors and what we are able to describe as social analysts, this book introduces the language of semiotics -- a language that provides some of the words necessary for discussion of these communication issues. Presenting the basics of semiotic theory to communication scholars, this volume summarizes those aspects most relevant to the study of social interaction, in particular, signs (the smallest elements of meaning in interaction) and codes (sets of related signs and rules for their use) -- explaining how they come together within cultures. Three common social codes -- food, clothing, and objects -- serve as primary examples throughout the book.

Author : Dr Michelle M Metro-Roland
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781409490258

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Tourists, Signs and the City by Dr Michelle M Metro-Roland Pdf

Drawing upon the literature of landscape geography, tourism studies, cultural studies, visual studies and philosophy, this book offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding the interaction between urban environments and tourists. This is a necessary prerequisite for cities as they make themselves into enticing destinations and compete for tourists' attention. It argues that tourists make sense of, and draw meaningful conclusions about, the places in which they tour based upon the interpretation of the signs or elements encountered within the built environment, elements such as graffiti and lamp posts. The writings of the American pragmatist Charles S. Peirce on interpretation provide the theoretical model for explaining the way in which mind and world, or thoughts and objects, result in tourists interacting with place. This theoretical framework elucidates three applied studies undertaken with foreign visitors to the Hungarian capital of Budapest. Based upon extensive ethnographic field work, these studies focus on tourists' interpretation of the urban landscape, with particular attention paid to the encounters with national culture, the role of architecture and the importance of the prosaic in urban tourism.

Author : Nathan Lyons
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190941284

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Signs in the Dust by Nathan Lyons Pdf

Modern thought is characterized by a dichotomy of meaningful culture and unmeaning nature. Signs in the Dust uses medieval semiotics to develop a new theory of nature and culture that resists this familiar picture of things. Through readings of Thomas Aquinas, Nicholas of Cusa, and John Poinsot (John of St. Thomas), it offers a semiotic analysis of human culture in both its anthropological breadth as an enterprise of creaturely sign-making, and its theological height as a finite participation in the Trinity, which can be understood as an absolute 'cultural nature'. Signs in the Dust then extends this account of human culture backwards into the natural depth of biological and physical nature. It puts the biosemiotics of its medieval sources, along with Félix Ravaisson's philosophy of habit, into dialogue with the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis that is emerging in contemporary biology, to show how all living things participate in semiosis, so that that a cultural dimension is present through the whole order of nature and the whole of natural history. It also retrieves Aquinas' doctrine of intentions in the medium to show how signification can be attributed in a diminished way to even inanimate nature, with the ontological implication that being as such should be reconceived in semiotic terms. The phenomena of human culture are therefore to be understood not as breaks with a meaningless nature, but instead as heightenings and deepenings of natural movements of meaning that long precede and far exceed us. Against the modern divorce of nature and culture, Signs in the Dust argues that culture is natural and nature is cultural, through and through.

Author : Nadya Burton
Publisher : Demeter Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781772580365

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Natal Signs: Cultural Representations of Preguancy, Birth and Parenting by Nadya Burton Pdf

Natal Signs: Cultural Representations of Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting explores some of the ways in which reproductive experiences are taken up in the rich arena of cultural production. The chapters in this collection pose questions, unsettle assumptions, and generate broad imaginative spaces for thinking about representation of pregnancy, birth, and parenting. They demonstrate the ways in which practices of consuming and using representations carry within them the productive forces of creation. Bringing together an eclectic and vibrant range of perspectives, this collection offers readers the possibility to rethink and reimagine the diverse meanings and practices of representations of these significant life events. Engaging theoretical reflection and creative image making, the contributors explore a broad range of cultural signs with a focus on challenging authoritative representations in a manner that seeks to reveal rather than conceal the insistently problematic and contestable nature of image culture. Natal Signs gathers an exciting set of critically engaged voices to reflect on some of life’s most meaningful moments in ways that affirm natality as the renewed promise of possibility.

Author : Yoshihiko Ikegami
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1991-04-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789027285935

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The Empire of Signs by Yoshihiko Ikegami Pdf

Like Roland Barthes' well-known book, L’Empire des signes, from which the title of the present collection is taken, this volume contains essays dealing with certain aspects of Japanese culture.

Author : Anne Norton
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1993-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0226595129

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Republic of Signs by Anne Norton Pdf

Norton examines the enactment of liberal ideas in popular culture; in the possessions of ordinary people and the habits of everyday life. She sees liberalism as the common sense of the American people: a set of conventions unconsciously adhered to, a set of principles silently taken for granted. The author ranges over a wide expanse of popular activities (e.g. wrestling, roller derby, lotteries, shopping sprees, and dining out), as well as conventional political topics (e.g., the Constitution, presidency, news media, and centrality of law). Yet the argument is pointed and probling, never shallow or superficial. Fred and Wilma Flintstone are as vital to the republic as Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. "In discussions that range from the Constitution and the presidency to money and shopping, voting, lotteries, and survey research, Norton discerns and imaginatively invents possibilities that exceed recognized actualities and already approved opportunities."—Richard E. Flathman, American Political Science Review "[S]timulating and stylish exploration of political theory, language, culture, and shopping at the mall . . . popular culture at its best, informed by history and theory, serious in purpose, yet witty and modest in tone."—Bernard Mergen, American Studies International

Author : Adrian Frutiger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UVA:X004260170

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Signs and Symbols by Adrian Frutiger Pdf

Discusses the elements of a sign, and looks at pictograms, alphabets, calligraphy, monograms, text type, numerical signs, symbols, and trademarks.

Author : Clare Gibson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Signs and symbols
ISBN : 0760702179

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Signs & Symbols by Clare Gibson Pdf

This wide-ranging compendium traces symbolism to its ancient roots, examining a vast variety of symbolic images.

Author : James Fisher Solomon
Publisher : Tarcher
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015029872200

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The Signs of Our Time by James Fisher Solomon Pdf

This explains the discipline of semiotics, the study of how messages of status and power are consciously and unconsciously transmitted in our culture.

Author : Arturo Alvarez Roldan,Han Vermeulen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134843954

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Fieldwork and Footnotes by Arturo Alvarez Roldan,Han Vermeulen Pdf

The history of anthropology has great relevance for current debates within the discipline, offering a foundation from which the professionalisation of anthropology can evolve. The authors explore key issues in the history of social and cultural anthropological approaches in Germany, Great Britain, France, The Netherlands, Sweden, Poland, Slovenia and Romania, as well as the influence of Spanish anthropologists in Mexico to provide a comprehensive overview of European anthropological traditions.