Reading Eco

• Paperback | Engels | Advances in Semiotics
• "[READING ECO is a timely indication] of the fruitfulness of perceiving Eco as the same in his metamorphoses. [It also testifies] to a certain price t... Lees meer

Analyzing Cultures

Marcel Danesi, Paul Perron

• Paperback | Engels | Advances in Semiotics
• Designed for classroom use in a number of disciplines, this comprehensive introduction to cultural semiotics is also an easy-to-use reference for thos... Lees meer

Novantiqua

Paolo Valesio

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Semiotics
• "This is an important book: original, erudite, useful and ambitious." --Quarterly Journal of Speech "A remarkable book . . . sure to be of lasting int... Lees meer

Signs in Society

Richard J Parmentier

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Semiotics
• Richard Parmentier takes up Ferdinand de Saussure's challenge to study the "life of signs in society" by using semiotic tools proposed by Charles Sand... Lees meer

Semiotics of Visual Language

Fernande Saint-Martin

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Semiotics
• " . . . the details of Saint-Martin's argument contain a wealth of penetrating observations from which anyone with a serious interest in visual commun... Lees meer

The Limits of Interpretation

Umberto Eco

• Paperback | Engels | Advances in Semiotics
• "Eco's essays read like letters from a friend, trying to share something he loves with someone he likes. . . . Read this brilliant, enjoyable, and pos... Lees meer

The Semiotics of Theater

Germany

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Semiotics
• "The most thorough, systematic and convincing semiotics of the theater we have. . . . [L]ike those of Eco, it is an important conceptual synthesis, an... Lees meer

Metaphor Reexamined

Liselotte Gumpel

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Semiotics
• Breaking away from the traditional "neo-Aristotelian" view of metaphor, Liselotte Gumpel's ambitious study offers a new, "non-Aristotelian" approach b... Lees meer

Theory of Musical Semiotics

Eero Tarasti

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Semiotics
• "Since [Tarasti's] is unquestionably the most fully developed narrative theory in the literature, this book is an important landmark . . . " --Music &... Lees meer

Gesture in Naples and Gesture in Classical Antiquity

Andrea De Jorio, Adam Kendon

• Paperback | Engels | Advances in Semiotics
• "I had heard about this book for years. The person who put the word out, at least in lay circles, was probably Luigi Barzini, in The Italians (1964). ... Lees meer

The Semiotics of French Gestures

Genevieve Calbris

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Semiotics
• Everyone gestures while speaking, in a specific and generally unconscious manner. What are the functions of gestures? What relationship do they have t... Lees meer

Theories of the Sign in Classical Antiquity

Giovanni Manetti

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Semiotics
• "It's the first book which revisits Greek and Latin theories of signs from the point of view of a profound classical scholarship and a paramount knowl... Lees meer

The Semiotics of Performance

Marco de Marinis

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Semiotics
• "The book . . . succeeds at refining elements in the problem that semiotics and theater represent to and for one another." --Choice "The Semiotics of ... Lees meer

A Theory of Semiotics

Umberto Eco

• Paperback | Engels | Advances in Semiotics
• " . . . the greatest contribution to [semiotics] since the pioneering work of C. S. Peirce and Charles Morris." --Journal of Aesthetics and Art Critic... Lees meer

Language, Status, and Power in Iran

William O Beeman

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Semiotics
• " . . . excellent example . . . significant contribution . . . an important interdisciplinary work . . . " --Middle East Journal " . . . an important ... Lees meer

Meaning and Mental Representation

• Paperback | Engels | Advances in Semiotics
• " . . . an excellent collection . . . " --Journal of Language & Social Psychology An important collection of original essays by well-known scholars de... Lees meer

Semiotic Theory of Language

Sebastian Shaumyan

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Semiotics
• " . . . one of the most significant books in the field of theoretical linguistics . . . will become a classic . . . " --Adam Makkai, University of Ill... Lees meer

Existential Semiotics

Eero Tarasti

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Semiotics
• Existential semiotics involves an a priori state of signs and their fixation into objective entities. These essays define this new philosophical field... Lees meer

Signs of Meaning in the Universe

Jesper Hoffmeyer

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Semiotics
• From reviews for the bestselling Danish edition: " . . . dashing and idiomatic language that is a pleasure to read." --Berlingske Tidende " . . . an a... Lees meer

The Sonic Self

Naomi Cumming

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Semiotics
• "Semioticians began by looking at literature but have gradually applied their techniques to other disciplines, including music. The late Naomi Cumming... Lees meer

Global Semiotics

Thomas A Sebeok

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Semiotics
• The study of semiotics underwent a gradual but radical paradigm shift during the past century, from a glottocentric (language-centered) enterprise to ... Lees meer

Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language

Umberto Eco

• Paperback | Engels | Advances in Semiotics
• "Eco wittily and enchantingly develops themes often touched on in his previous works, but he delves deeper into their complex nature . . . this collec... Lees meer