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Type: documentary educational religious

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Authors: George Lakoff Mark Johnson

Tags: design linguistics semiotics metaphor

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Author: Jonathan Culler

Tags: culture literary semiotics semiology 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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Author: Roland Barthes

Tags: culture semiotics semiology

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Author: Clifford Geertz

Tags: culture anthropology semiotics Geertz ethnomethodology

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Author: Morris Halle

Tags: semiotics

Description: A collection of papers in various languages published by the University of Michigan in 1984A collection of papers in various languages published by the University of Michigan in 1984 as a tribute to the work of Yuri Lotman (founder of the Tartu School of Semiotics) on his 60th birthday. (No idea, then, why they call him Georgii on the Frontispiece)....

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Authors: Umberto Eco Yuri M. Lotman Ann Shukman

Tags: culture semiotics

Description: Excellent introduction to the work of Yuri Lotman, especially his theories on Semiotics, CultureExcellent introduction to the work of Yuri Lotman, especially his theories on Semiotics, Culture and Semiosphere....

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Author: Daniel Chandler

Tags: semiotics

Description: Great primer for beginners new to semiotics as a discipline. Good overview of main playersGreat primer for beginners new to semiotics as a discipline. Good overview of main players and theories in very readable style. Also has online version with more updated information....