Analyzing Cultures : An Introduction and Handbook / / Marcel Danesi and Paul Perron.

Analyzing Cultures provides what readers of semiotics, antrhopology, communications, and media studies have long searched for: an intelligent and engaging introduction to semiotic analysis. Marcel Danesi and Paul Perron have written a unique primer that addresses the way culture is studied within a...

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Place / Publishing House:Bloomington : : Indiana University Press,, 1999.
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Year of Publication:1999
Language:English
Series:Advances in semiotics
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 online resource xiii, 413 pages.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Pt. I. Basic Notions and Views. 1. What Is Culture? 2. The Field of Cultural Semiotics. 3. The Signifying Order
  • pt. 2. The Semiotic Study of Culture. 4. The Body. 5. Language. 6. Metaphor. 7. Space. 8. Art. 9. Objects. 10. Narrative. 11. Television and Advertising
  • pt. III. A Practical Synthesis. 12. Semiotic Analysis.