Semiotics and its Masters. / Volume 1 / / ed. by Kristian Bankov, Paul Cobley.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2017 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Abril, Neyla Graciela Pardo,; Boklund-Lagopoulou, Karin,; Cobley, Paul,; Danesi, Marcel,; Deely, John,; Fernández, José Luis,; Gorlée, Dinda L.,; Hénault, Anne,; Jost, François,; Lagopoulos, Alexandros Ph.,; Li, Youzheng,; Marrone, Gianfranco,; Petrilli, Susan,; Pezzini, Isabella,; Ponzio, Augusto,; Seif, Farouk Y.,; Sonesson, Göran,; Tarasti, Eero,; Violi, Patrizia,; Volli, Ugo,
• HerausgeberIn: Bankov, Kristian,; Cobley, Paul,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC] , 18
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XVIII, 388 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of contents --; Preface --; Section 1: Semiotics in the world and academia --; What the humanities are for – a semiotic perspective --; Semioethics as a vocation of semiotics. In the wake of Welby, Morris, Sebeok, Rossi- Landi --; “General semiotics” as the all-round interdisciplinary organizer – general semiotics (GS) vs. philosophical fundamentalism --; Section 2: Semiotics, experimental science and maths --; Semiotics as a metalanguage for the sciences --; Mastering phenomenological semiotics with Husserl and Peirce --; Section 3: Society, text and social semiotics --; Farewell to representation: text and society --; Social semiotics: Towards a sociologically grounded semiotics --; Section 4: Semiotics and media --; What relationship to time do the media promise us? --; Semiotics and interstitial mediatizations --; Section 5: Semiotics for moral questions --; Spaces of memory and trauma: a cultural semiotic perspective --; Media coverage of the voices of Colombia’s victims of dispossession --; Section 6: Questioning the logic of semiotics --; Sense beyond communication --; Semiotic paradoxes: Antinomies and ironies in a transmodern world --; Section 7: Manifestoes for semiotics --; Semiosis and human understanding --; Culture and transcendence – the concept of transcendence through the ages --; Section 8: Masters on past masters --; From Peirce’s pragmatic maxim to Wittgenstein’s language-games --; Semiotics as a critical discourse: Roland Barthes’ Mythologies --; Ricoeur, a disciple of Greimas? A case of paradoxical maïeutic --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501503825; 9783110762495; 9783110719543; 9783110742978; 9783110540550; 9783110625264; 9783110547887
• ISSN: 1867-0873
• DOI: 10.1515/9781501503825
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Kristian Bankov, Paul Cobley.

This volume presents a broad range of topics and current frontline research by leading semioticians. The contributions are representative of the most cutting-edge work in semiotics, but project as well the developments in the near future of the field.