Warning Signs

Marcel Danesi

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
• Warning signs are all around us. In ancient Egypt, tombs were lavishly adorned with signs and symbols warning of the dire consequences that would befa... Lees meer

The Semiotics of Light and Shadows

Piotr Sadowski

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
• Lighting and shadows are used within a range of art forms to create aesthetic effects. Piotr Sadowski's study of light and shadow in Weimar cinema and... Lees meer

Semiotics of Religion

Robert A Yelle

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
• Following the heyday of Lévi-Straussian structuralism in the 1970s-80s, little attention has been paid by scholars of religion to semiotics. Semiotics... Lees meer

The Semiotics of Caesar Augustus

Elina Pyy

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
• Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, better known as Augustus, was the first Roman emperor and is one of the most iconic figures in world history. Two thou... Lees meer

Music as Multimodal Discourse

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
• We communicate multimodally. Everyday communication involves not only words, but gestures, images, videos, sounds and of course, music. Music has trad... Lees meer

The Semiotics of Che Guevara

Maria-Carolina Cambre

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
• Alberto Korda's famous photograph of Che Guevara titled the "Guerrillero Heroico" has been reproduced, modified and remixed countless times since it w... Lees meer

Developing a Neo-Peircean Approach to Signs

Tony Jappy

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
• This book takes up a number of Charles Sanders Peirce's undeveloped semiotic concepts and highlights their theoretical interest for a general semiotic... Lees meer

The Social Semiotics of Tattoos

Chris William Martin

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
• Why do people put indelible marks on their bodies in an era characterized by constant cultural change? How do tattoos as semiotic resources convey mea... Lees meer

Critical Semiotics

Gary Genosko

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
• Critical Semiotics provides long overdue answers to questions at the junction of information, meaning and 'affect'. The affective turn in cultural stu... Lees meer

Peirce's Twenty-Eight Classes of Signs and the Philosophy of Representation

Tony Jappy

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
• The major principles and systems of C. S. Peirce's ground-breaking theory of signs and signification are now generally well known. Less well known, ho... Lees meer

Warning Signs

Marcel Danesi

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
• Warning signs are all around us. In ancient Egypt, tombs were lavishly adorned with signs and symbols warning of the dire consequences that would befa... Lees meer

Semiotics and Pragmatics of Stage Improvisation

Domenico Pietropaolo

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
• Analysis of improvisation as a compositional practice in the Commedia dell'Arte and related traditions from the Renaissance to the 21st century. Domen... Lees meer

Semiotics of Happiness

Ashley Frawley

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
• The Semiotics of Happiness examines the rise of 'happiness' (and its various satellite terminologies) as a social and political semiotic, exploring it... Lees meer

Critical Semiotics

Gary Genosko

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
• Critical Semiotics provides long overdue answers to questions at the junction of information, meaning and 'affect'. The affective turn in cultural stu... Lees meer

The Semiotics of Light and Shadows

Piotr Sadowski

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
• Lighting and shadows are used within a range of art forms to create aesthetic effects. Piotr Sadowski's study of light and shadow in Weimar cinema and... Lees meer

Introduction to Peircean Visual Semiotics

Tony Jappy

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
• Contemporary culture is as much visual as literary. This book explores an approach to the communicative power of the pictorial and multimodal document... Lees meer

The Semiotics of Clowns and Clowning

Paul Bouissac

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
• During the last 300 years circus clowns have emerged as powerful cultural icons. This is the first semiotic analysis of the range of make-up and costu... Lees meer

The Language of War Monuments

David Machin, Gill Abousnnouga

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
• This book analyses war monuments by developing a multimodal social-semiotic approach to understand how they communicate as three-dimensional objects. ... Lees meer

The Semiotics of Clowns and Clowning

Paul Bouissac

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
• During the last 300 years circus clowns have emerged as powerful cultural icons. This is the first semiotic analysis of the range of make-up and costu... Lees meer

Music as Multimodal Discourse

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
• We communicate multimodally. Everyday communication involves not only words, but gestures, images, videos, sounds and of course, music. Music has trad... Lees meer

Introduction to Peircean Visual Semiotics

Tony Jappy

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
• Contemporary culture is as much visual as literary. This book explores an approach to the communicative power of the pictorial and multimodal document... Lees meer

Semiotics with a Conscience

Marcel Danesi

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
• Demonstrating how semiotic theory and method can be applied to decoding false representations and dangerous discourses, this book explores how semioti... Lees meer

The Language of War Monuments

David Machin, Gill Abousnnouga

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
• This book analyses war monuments by developing a multimodal social-semiotic approach to understand how they communicate as three-dimensional objects. ... Lees meer

Semiotics of Religion

Robert A Yelle

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
• Following the heyday of Lévi-Straussian structuralism in the 1970s-80s, little attention has been paid by scholars of religion to semiotics. Semiotics... Lees meer