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The Semiotics of Love brings together work on early symbolism, literary practices, and contemporary communication on the theme of romance and the idea of love to forge an understanding of the semiotic-cultural side of romance. Moving beyond psychological and neuroscientific scholarly analyses of love, Marcel Danesi works to interrogate the cultural constructions of love across societies. This book analyzes romantic love from the general perspective of semiotics—that is, from its more generic interpretive angle, rather than its more technical one. The specific analytical lens used is based on the notion that we convert our feeling structures into sign structures (words, symbols) and sign-based constructions (texts, rituals, etc.), which then allow us to reflect upon something cognitively, rather than just experience it physically and emotionally.

Table of Contents
1. XOXO: The Religious Origins of Romantic Symbols2. The Language of Love3. Love and Sex: Are the Two Connected?4. Writing Love: The Literature of Romance5. Love in Images6. Love Rituals7. Love and Marriage: Do They Go Together Lie a Horse and Carriage?

The Semiotics of Love

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      Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland AG
      Published 12 August 2019
      ISBN-13 9783030181109
      978-3030181109
      ISBN-10 3030181103
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      Dictionaries, Reference & Language Semiotics / semiology Media studies Popular culture

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The Semiotics of Love brings together work on early symbolism, literary practices, and contemporary communication on the theme of romance and the idea of love to forge an understanding of the semiotic-cultural side of romance. Moving beyond psychological and neuroscientific scholarly analyses of love, Marcel Danesi works to interrogate the cultural constructions of love across societies. This book analyzes romantic love from the general perspective of semiotics—that is, from its more generic interpretive angle, rather than its more technical one. The specific analytical lens used is based on the notion that we convert our feeling structures into sign structures (words, symbols) and sign-based constructions (texts, rituals, etc.), which then allow us to reflect upon something cognitively, rather than just experience it physically and emotionally.

      Table of Contents
      1. XOXO: The Religious Origins of Romantic Symbols2. The Language of Love3. Love and Sex: Are the Two Connected?4. Writing Love: The Literature of Romance5. Love in Images6. Love Rituals7. Love and Marriage: Do They Go Together Lie a Horse and Carriage?

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