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Author: Jonathan Culler

Tags: literary culture semiotics semiology mediation sign

Description: To gain a deeper understanding of the literary movement that has dominated recent Anglo-AmericanTo gain a deeper understanding of the literary movement that has dominated recent Anglo-American literary criticism, The Pursuit of Signs is a must. In a world increasingly mediated, it offers insights into our ways of consuming texts that are both brilliant and bold. Dancing through semiotics, reader-response criticism, the value of the apostrophe and much more, Jonathan Culler opens up for every reader the closed world of literary criticism. Its impact on first publication, in 1981, was immense; now, as Mieke Bal notes, 'the book has the same urgency and acuity that it had then', though today it has even wider implications: 'with the interdisciplinary turn taking hold, literary theory itself, through this book, becomes a much more widespread tool for cultural analysis'.
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2006-04-06

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Type: scientific

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Author: Marcel Danesi

Tags: culture semiotics meaning semiosis sign semiosphere

Description: This text is designed to provide a basic introduction to semiotics and communication theory,This text is designed to provide a basic introduction to semiotics and communication theory, with plenty of examples from and applications to popular culture. It aims to make accessible the technical and often abstruse subject matter of sign theory in practical ways, with illustrations in such areas as myth, storytelling, television, advertising, clothing, and architecture. Without overwhelming, this introduction allows students and interested general readers to get a comprehensive look at what semiotics and communication theory are all about.
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2006-04-06

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Type: scientific

Status: to read

Authors: Steven Best Douglas Kellner

Tags: technology culture postmodernism communication

Description: Massive geopolitical shifts and dramatic developments in computerization and biotechnologyMassive geopolitical shifts and dramatic developments in computerization and biotechnology are heralding the transformation from the modern to the postmodern age. We are confronted with altered modes of work, communication, and entertainment; new postindustrial and political networks; novel approaches to warfare; genetic engineering; and even cloning. This compelling book explores the challenges to theory, politics, and human identity that we face on the threshold of the third millennium. It follows on the successor of Best and Kellner's two previous books, Postmodern Theory, acclaimed as the best critical introduction to the field - and The Postmodern Turn, which provides a powerful mapping of postmodern developments developments in the arts, politics, science, and theory. In The Postmodern Adventure, Best and Kellner analyze a broad array of literary, cultural, and political phenomena from fiction, film, science, and the Internet, to globalization and the rise of a transnational image culture. They use the best of modern and postmodern perspectives to illuminate contemporary life and to strive for a just and viable future....

2006-04-06

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Type: scientific

Status: neutral

Author: Marvin Minsky

Tags: mind space communication cognition memory meaning

Description: A fun, easy to read book (lots of pictures and broken up text) that looks at cognition, theA fun, easy to read book (lots of pictures and broken up text) that looks at cognition, the brain, theories of mind and memory, of space and meaning, perception, context and ambiguities, framing, expression, mental models, etc....

2005-10-30

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Type: scientific

Status: neutral

Author: Edward Sapir

Tags: culture linguistics

Description: A look at culture through the eyes of Sapir - via linguistics, psychology and cultural anthropology.A look at culture through the eyes of Sapir - via linguistics, psychology and cultural anthropology. A selection of essays originally published in 1949. Interesting in terms of his view of language: "Language is a cultural or social product and must be understood as such."...

2005-10-30

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Type: scientific

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Author: John Lyons

Tags: linguistics modality modelling semantics pragmatics

Description: A review of the meaning - conditional semantics, linguistics and the relationship of semanticsA review of the meaning - conditional semantics, linguistics and the relationship of semantics to pragmatics. Explores the concept of langauge as an 'interlocking system' in which each linguistic unit is dependent on the others not merely on one but on a number of levels. [Interesting in terms of Lotman and in terms of multimodality in general terms]....

2005-10-30

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Author: Umberto Eco

Tags: linguistics semiotics communication semiology semantics

Description: An excellent overview of the field of semiotics, its definitions, its areas of focus, its limits,An excellent overview of the field of semiotics, its definitions, its areas of focus, its limits, etc. Useful for any student of semiotics. I'm looking forward to this one....

2005-10-30

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Author: Geoffrey Leech

Tags: linguistics communication meaning semantics

Description: Semantics presented in the light of linguistics, communication and concept-manipulation. ToSemantics presented in the light of linguistics, communication and concept-manipulation. To what extent can the study of language be used to contribute to the study of meaning? An interesting general, but quite extensive, overview of semantics. A good place to start for the beginner....

2005-10-30

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Author: Yuri M. Lotman

Tags: space semiotics structuralism poetics modelling plot text extra-textual

Description: Lotman's structuralist review of poetics based on his lectures at Tartu between 1958-1962Lotman's structuralist review of poetics based on his lectures at Tartu between 1958-1962 and first published in Russian in 1964 - this translated edition published in 1976. Lotman's analysis of the text (or theory of art, as in the artistic text) as a semiotic system subject to interpretive modelling and structural analysis. The core of the work contains a structural analysis of the poetic text on a range of levels and is followed by the problems arising in the analysis of the text in relationship to extra-textual structures....

2005-10-30

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Status: I recommend

Authors: Gunther Kress Theo Van Leeuwen

Tags: culture semiotics communication discourse multimodality

Description: An exploration of multimodality in our 'highly mediated' world. A foundational theoryAn exploration of multimodality in our 'highly mediated' world. A foundational theory of how meaning is made in 'this period of increasing semiotic fragmentation and cross-over'. A new theory of communication for the era of interactive multimedia....

2005-10-30