Semiotics / semiology Books
Palgrave MacMillan Us The Objects of Affection Semiotics and Consumer Culture Semiotics and Popular Culture
Book SynopsisIn this book, pre-eminent semiotician Arthur Asa Berger decodes the meanings of common objects of consumption and their perceived 'sacredness' in consumerist cultures. Using semiotic theory, consumer culture is dissected in new and fascinating ways.Trade Review"This seductively simple yet erudite introduction to semiotics examines the psychological, religious, and cultural roots of consumer culture and the objects individuals buy and brand themselves with...Rich food for thought and intellectual engagement." - CHOICE "Books with true insight into consumer motivations are exceedingly rare. Arthur Berger's The Objects of Affection is one such book. From neckties to shampoo, he outlines with great precision the associations that drive desire across a broad swathe of product categories. Even more fundamentally, he weaves in the importance of cultural truths, evolving yet enduring insights into an individual's relationship with his society, that too many marketers ignore in their quest for global mass appeal. Berger's book, erudite and witty, is a rallying cry to embrace consumers' deeper motivations as the key to enduring profit and resonance in consumers' lives." - Tom Doctoroff, Greater China CEO for JWT and author of Billions: Selling to the NewChinese Consumer "Berger writes with wit . . . his account of semiotics and consumer culture is clear, concise, and enjoyable." - Eileen Meehan, Professor of Radio and Television Studies, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale "Berger s scholarly yet impish wit shines through in this brilliant adventure into the exotica of the everyday, a book brimming with astonishing insights into the imaginary souls of the stuff around us. Watch out for that innocent-looking toaster over there - he may be signifying something!" - Greg Rowland, founder of Greg Rowland SemioticsTable of ContentsPART I: SEMIOTIC THEORY Theories of Consumer Cultures Marketing Theory and Semiotics PART II: SEMIOTIC APPLICATIONS Brands and Identity: We are our Brands The Objects of our Affection: Selected Case Studies Appendix: Learning Games and Activities
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Assessing English Proficiency for University Study
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on strategies and procedures for assessing the academic language ability of students entering an English-medium university, so that those with significant needs can have access to opportunities to enhance their language skills.Trade Review“Assessing English proficiency for university study focuses on post-entry English language assessment (PELA) for students in higher education. … this book would be suitable for a range of readers including EAP teachers, test developers, policy advisors and others involved in PELAs. … Read’s book can be fully utilized by all of those involved in post-entry language assessment.” (Naoki Ikeda, Papers in Language Testing and Assessment, Vol. 6 (1), 2017)“The central topic of this book is the assessment of English language proficiency and academic literacy needs of students to enable them to cope with the demands of study at university. … This book is highly recommended. It will be an essential go-to resource not only for those with an interest in PELAs, but also for those with a broader interest in English language assessment issues.” (New Zealand Studies in Applied Linguistics (NZSAL), Vol. 22 (1), 2016)Table of Contents1. The Context: Students in English-medium Universities 2. Post-entry Language Assessments in Australia 3. The DELNA Programme at the University of Auckland 4. Post-entry Assessments in Other Countries 5. The Case for Introducing a Post-entry Assessment 6. Defining and Assessing Academic Language Proficiency 7. Defining and Assessing Academic Literacy 8. A Diagnostic Perspective on Post-entry Assessment 9. The Design of Academic English Assessments 10. The Validation of a Post-entry Assessment Postscript
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Yale University Press Symbolic Forms and Cultural Studies
Trade Review"This is the most comprehensive collection of serious scholarly studies on Cassirer’s thought since the Library of Living Philosophers released its collection over fifty years ago. This collection rivals that one in scope and depth, and has the added benefit of historical distance."—Randall E. Auxier, Southern Illinois University; Editor, Library of Living Philosophers
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Random House USA Inc The Order of Things An Archaeology of Human
Book SynopsisWith vast erudition, Foucault cuts across disciplines and reaches back into seventeenth century to show how classical systems of knowledge, which linked all of nature within a great chain of being and analogies between the stars in the heavens and the features in a human face, gave way to the modern sciences of biology, philology, and political economy. The result is nothing less than an archaeology of the sciences that unearths old patterns of meaning and reveals the shocking arbitrariness of our received truths.In the work that established him as the most important French thinker since Sartre, Michel Foucault offers startling evidence that man—man as a subject of scientific knowledge—is at best a recent invention, the result of a fundamental mutation in our culture.
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Springer Quantification in the Theory of Grammar 37 Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
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Springer What is Said
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Springer From Discourse to Logic Introduction to Modeltheoretic Semantics of Natural Language Formal Logic and Discourse Representation Theory 42 Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
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Springer Indian Philosophy of Language Studies in Selected Issues 46 Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
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Springer Views on Phrase Structure
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Springer Japanese Syntax and Semantics Collected Papers 27 Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
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Springer Universal Grammar and American Sign Language Setting the Null Argument Parameters 13 Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics
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Springer Universal Grammar and American Sign Language Setting the Null Argument Parameters 13 Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics
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Springer Cognition Semantics and Philosophy Proceedings of the First International Colloqium on Cognitive Science 52 Philosophical Studies Series
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Springer Metaphor and Cognition An Interactionist Approach 13 Studies in Cognitive Systems
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Springer Control and Grammar 48 Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
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Springer Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse 50 Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
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Springer Case Scope and Binding 30 Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
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Springer Aspects of Metaphor 238 Synthese Library
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Springer Aspectual Roles and the SyntaxSemantics Interface 52 Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
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Springer Aspectual Roles and the SyntaxSemantics Interface 52 Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
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Springer Quantification in Natural Languages 54 Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
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Springer Quantification in Natural Languages Volume I 54 Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
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Springer Applied Logic How What and Why Logical Approaches to Natural Language 247 Synthese Library
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Springer Quantifiers Logics Models and Computation Volume One Surveys 248 Synthese Library
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Springer Quantifiers Logics Models and Computation Volume Two Contributions 249 Synthese Library
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Springer Doing Worlds with Words Formal Semantics Without Formal Metaphysics 253 Synthese Library
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Springer Directionality and Logical Form
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Springer Interrogative Phrases and the SyntaxSemantics Interface 59 Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
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Springer Lingua Universalis vs Calculus Ratiocinator An Ultimate Presupposition of TwentiethCentury Philosophy 2 Jaakko Hintikka Selected Papers
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Springer Logic Language and Computation 5 Applied Logic Series
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Springer Ways of Scope Taking Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 65
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Springer Ways of Scope Taking 65 Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
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Springer Fact Proposition Event 66 Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
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Springer The Parameter of Aspect 43 Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
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Springer theparameterofaspect
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Springer Incomplete Category Fronting
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Springer Events and Grammar 70 Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
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Springer TopicFocus Articulation Tripartite Structures and Semantic Content 71 Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
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Springer Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in Lexical Knowledge Bases 6 Text Speech and Language Technology
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Springer On Sentence Interpretation 22 Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics
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Springer Success in Referential Communication
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Springer Yearbook of Morphology 1998
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Springer Relationships in the Organization of Knowledge 2 Information Science and Knowledge Management
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Springer Long Travail and Great Paynes
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Springer The Logic of Metaphor
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Key Terms in Semiotics
Book SynopsisProvides information that a student needs when encountering semiotics for the first time or as a more advanced reader wishing to do in-depth semiotic readings. This book provides a brief historical overview of the field, an explanation of semiotic theory, key term definitions, outlines of the work of key thinkers, and key readings for students.Table of ContentsIntroduction - What is Semiotics?; Key Terms; Key Thinkers; Key Readings.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Semiotics of Light and Shadows Modern Visual Arts and Weimar Cinema Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
Book SynopsisPiotr Sadowski is a lecturer in humanities in Dublin Business School, Ireland. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Sadowski studied English at the University of Warsaw. Since 1991 he lives in Dublin, currently teaching film and drama in Dublin Business School. He is the author of six academic books on systems theory of literature and communication, medieval literature and Shakespeare.Trade ReviewOffers an illuminating exploration of the cinema’s ability to evoke a variety of responses from the depictions of interplay between light and shadows, the interplay that is itself a constituent part of the medium. Throughout the chapters the author proceeds to bring a welcome attention and a wealth of references to bear on an understudied aspect of cinematic history. * Early Popular Visual Culture *This book is an interesting work and an accomplished achievement, especially in allowing a coherent, understandable text to speak for itself. The appropriate visual analysis makes its case succinctly without relying on deliberate mystification that accompanied the early phases of semiotics. * Film International *This carefully crafted and beautifully illustrated book covers the topic comprehensively, culminating in a detailed and informative discussion of the classics of Weimar cinema. Piotr Sadowski’s expert knowledge of cinema history – evident on every page - is seamlessly woven into a much broader cultural history of the treatment of the shadow in the visual arts - from Caravaggio to Caligari. -- Michael Kane, Lecturer in Literature and Cultural Theory, Dublin Business School, IrelandA brilliant study of a seminal period in European cinematic history. It combines insightful aesthetic analysis and nuanced discussion of the socio-cultural background of Weimar Germany. After reading the book it is impossible to see cinematic light and shadows in the same way again, not only in viewing the movies of the Weimar period, but those which follow to the present day. -- Rory McEntegart, Academic Dean, American College Dublin, IrelandWho would have guessed there is so much substance in shadows? What makes shadows solid? How do artists manipulate them? These are some of the questions raised in Sadowski’s fascinating investigation into ‘the kingdom of shadows’. His solid research shows what the (un)intentional presence or absence of shade and shadow can add to how we ‘read’ Renaissance visual arts, Weimar cinema, Chinese shadow-theatre, the spiritual world and much much more. -- Olga Fischer, Professor Emeritus of English Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.Sadowski’s elegantly written account of the use of light and shadow in German cinema of the Weimar era is a welcome reminder of the enduring artistry of this influential filmmaking era. Detailed and erudite, the author traces the use of the shadow as communication back to the ancient Greeks, through Caravaggio and Rembrandt, to Berlin in the 1920s. Always careful to contextualize, Sadowski interweaves a discussion of key historical events and artistic movements with intricate textual analysis. Thoughtfully argued and beautifully illustrated, this is an important contribution to semiotics as a discipline and to the history of film as art. -- Ruth Barton, Associate Professor in Film Studies, Trinity College Dublin, IrelandTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Natural shadows, represented shadows: from optical phenomena to semiotic signs 2. Light and shadows in visual arts 3. Fixing iconic indexes 4. Light and shadows in early cinema 5. Weimar cinema: Expressionist light and shadows 6. Weimar cinema: light and shadows in the city Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Semiotics of Religion
Book SynopsisRobert A. Yelle is Assistant Professor at the Department of History and the Helen Hardin Honors Program, University of Memphis, USA.Trade ReviewA deep and engaging book sure to pique the interests of researchers in both semiotics and religion. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, faculty. -- J. L. Best, St. Thomas University * CHOICE *As Robert Yelle compellingly argues in his compact, meaty monograph, a semiotic approach to religion (magic, ritual, myth) requires attention to both semiotic form and semiotic ideology - the poetics of rhyme and repetition, but equally the underlying nominalist ideology that naming invokes the ghost ... [T]he cogent ways in which he pulls together countless familiar piecemeal insights and well-known cases and debates in the anthropology of religion make his book worthwhile reading for linguistic anthropologists ... In sum, this groundbreaking interdisciplinary work provides a compelling argument for the tools of our trade by someone firmly situated in a different discipline. * Linguistic Anthropology *This important work takes up the almost forgotten task of advancing the study of religion to a place of deeper comprehension in which the tasks of comparison and broad categorical analysis are possible. The means of advance, as the title indicates, is semiotics ... [T]his [is a] carefully plotted argument, making Semiotics of Religion a highly recommended work of theory and method. * Religious Studies Review *In [Yelle's] book he suggests a more radical reorientation for the study of religious phenomena that shifts focus from attempts to uncover the underlying cosmology of religious and magical rituals - that is, the particular ‘semantic or symbolic’ meaning of such practices - to an approach that gives closer attention to the semiotics of ritual repetition and form ... Yelle’s willingness ... to take religious discourse on its own terms as well as his explanations of the complex language ideologies at work in South Asian religious ritual and practice provide a valuable contribution to both the study of language and the study of religion. * Language in Society *Students of semiotics, semiotic anthropology, cultural anthropology, religious studies, anthropology of religion, and especially semiotics of religion, have long waited for a publication of this kind ... [This book] revitaliz[es] the domain of semiotics, and in particular that of the semiotics of religion, with new themes, insights, sensibility and, last but not least, a new style ... Another merit of Yelle’s book, perhaps the greatest one, is to demonstrate with lucidity and efficacy that the semiotic ideologies that underpin religious traditions did not vanish in the era of supposed secularization but mutated, instead, into often neglected aspects of secular, modern, and even post-modern semiotic ideologies. * Religion [from a review symposium in 44:1] *[B]road in scope and ambitious. ... According to Yelle’s compelling argument, religions develop their own poetics that promote the use of signs and languages as non-arbitrary and motivated entities; as such, religious uses are related to poetry and performance, rather than history or philosophy. ... Yelle’s book is a landmark in semiotics and religious studies, and will be the basis of many research developments for several years. * Religion [from a review symposium in 44:1) *[Yelle's] extremely interesting engagement with ritual language with regard to magic in particular provides a different reading of magic, one that takes for granted its rationality and takes seriously its discursive poetics as an aspect of its efficacy and not an aspect of its being ‘science gone wrong.’ In this kind of approach, Yelle provides a fresh and insightful reading of magic, something quite unique in the study of systems of belief and practice. * Religion [from a review symposium in 44:1) *Robert A. Yelle’s Semiotics of Religion lays important groundwork for a revival of semiotics in the study of religion. In an admirably clear and straightforward manner, he examines a number of semiotic ideologies and their implications for ritual actions and historical interpretation. ... Yelle’s account of Protestant literalism, with its entailments especially in the sphere of law, is remarkably clear and to the point. Despite an inordinately large corpus of material to grapple with, Yelle succeeds admirably in articulating the implications of ‘plain speech’ – and the rejection of ‘vain repetitions’ – within the 16th- and 17th-century moment. * Religion [from a review symposium in 44:1] *This book is vast in scope, deep in implications, and admirably clear and forthright in exposition.The study of religion has needed a work of this kind, which brings together several research traditions and pushes the resulting synthesis in new directions. The result is an agenda-setting project of huge ambition. -- Webb Keane, University of Michigan, USASemiotics of Religion displays sensational semiotic sensitivity in analyzing the practical poetics of performance - the 'pragmatics' of performativity - of various expressions of the religious life.From this perspective and with great erudition, Yelle then engages the four-hundred-year-long European Enlightenment drive both stipulatively and interpretatively to 'semanticize' religious practice - as also language itself - in an ideological project of containment that has been central to institutionalizing 'disenchanted modernity.' In this enchanting book Yelle demonstrates a more inclusive semiotics of religion. -- Michael Silverstein, Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago, USATable of Contents1. Introduction \ 2. Distinctive Features of Religious Symbolism and Language \ 3. Natural and Artificial Languages \ 4. The Semiotics of Ritual Form \ 5. The Attack on Semiotic Form \ 6. Protestant Literalism and Print Culture \ 7. Signs of Salvation \ Bibliography \ Index
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