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.)

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.

Table of Contents

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