Semiotics And Language

Author : Umberto Eco
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253203984
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language written by Umberto Eco and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1986-07-22 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Eco wittily and enchantingly develops themes often touched on in his previous works, but he delves deeper into their complex nature . . . this collection can be read with pleasure by those unversed in semiotic theory." —Times Literary Supplement

Author : Leo van Lier
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402079125
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ecology and Semiotics of Language Learning written by Leo van Lier and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book I try to give a coherent and consistent overview of what an ecological approach to language learning might look like. This is not a fully fledged grand theory that aims to provide an explanation of everything, but an attempt to provide a rationale for taking an ecological world view and applying it to language education, which I regard as one of the most important of all human activities. Goethe once said that everything has been thought of before, but that the difficulty is to think of it again. The same certainly is true of the present effort. If it has any innovative ideas to offer, these lie in a novel combination of thoughts and ideas that have been around for a long, long time. The reader will encounter influences that range from Spinoza to Bakhtin and from Vygotsky to Halliday. The scope of the work is intentionally broad, covering all major themes that are part of the language learning process and the language teaching profession. These themes include language, perception and action, self, learning, critical pedagogy and research. At the same time I have attempted to look at both the macro and the micro sides of the ecological coin, and address issues from both a theoretical and a practical perspective. This, then, aims to be a book that can be read by practitioners and theoreticians alike, and the main idea is that it should be readable and challenging at the same time.

Author : Fernande Saint-Martin
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253112699
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Semiotics of Visual Language written by Fernande Saint-Martin and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1990-10-22 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... the details of Saint-Martin's argument contain a wealth of penetrating observations from which anyone with a serious interest in visual communication will profit." -- Journal of Communication Saint-Martin elucidates a syntax of visual language that sheds new light on nonverbal language as a form of representation and communication. She describes the evolution of this language in the visual arts as well as its multiple uses in contemporary media. The result is a completely new approach for scholars and practitioners of the visual arts eager to decode the many forms of visual communication.

Author : Algirdas Julien Greimas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Semiotics and Language written by Algirdas Julien Greimas and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marcel Danesi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 311082308X
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Semiotics in Language Education written by Marcel Danesi and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Semiotics has had a profound impact on our comprehension of a wide range of phenomena, from how animals signify and communicate, to how people read TV commercials. This series features books on semiotic theory and applications of that theory to understanding media, language, and related subjects. The series publishes scholarly monographs of wide appeal to students and interested non-specialists as well as scholars. AAS is a peer-reviewed series of international scope.

Author : Sebastian Shaumyan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Semiotic Theory of Language written by Sebastian Shaumyan and published by . This book was released on 1987-05-22 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... one of the most significant books in the field of theoretical linguistics... will become a classic... " --Adam Makkai, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle Taking issue with Transformational Grammar Theory, Shaumyan separates language from psychology, arguing that language occupies a different world, that of the semiotic.

Author : Torkild Thellefsen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501507141
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Umberto Eco in His Own Words written by Torkild Thellefsen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hitherto, there has been no book that attempted to sum up the breadth of Umberto Eco’s work and it importance for the study of semiotics, communication and cognition. There have been anthologies and overviews of Eco’s work within Eco Studies; sometimes, works in semiotics have used aspects of Eco’s work. Yet, thus far, there has been no overview of the work of Eco in the breadth of semiotics. This volume is a contribution to both semiotics and Eco studies. The 40 scholars who participate in the volume come from a variety of disciplines but have all chosen to work with a favorite quotation from Eco that they find particularly illustrative of the issues that his work raises. Some of the scholars have worked exegetically placing the quotation within a tradition, others have determined the (epistemic) value of the quotation and offered a critique, while still others have seen the quotation as a starting point for conceptual developments within a field of application. However, each article within this volume points toward the relevance of Eco -- for contemporary studies concerning semiotics, communication and cognition.

Author : William C. Stokoe
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9789027920966
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Semiotics and Human Sign Languages written by William C. Stokoe and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1972 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Non-Aboriginal material.

Author : Raymond Monelle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134346662
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Linguistics and Semiotics in Music written by Raymond Monelle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook for advanced students explains the various applications to music of methods derived from linguistics and semiotics. The book is aimed at musicians familiar with the ordinary range of aesthetic and theoretical ideas in music; no specialized knowledge of linguistic or semiotic terminology is necessary. In the two introductory chapters, semiotics is related to the tradition of music aesthetics and to well-known works like Deryck Cooke's The Language of Music, and the methods of linguistics are explained in language intelligible to musicians. There is no limitation to one school or tradition; linguistic applications not avowedly semiotic, and semiotic theories not connected with linguistics, are all included. The book gives clear and simple descriptions with ample diagrams and music examples of the 'neutral level', 'semiotic analysis', transformation and generation, structural semantics and narrative grammar, intonation theory, the ideas of C.S. Peirce, and applications in ethnomusicology.

Author : Steven C. Hamel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781617289927
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Semiotics written by Steven C. Hamel and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Semiotics is the study of sign processes (semiosis), or signification and communication, signs and symbols, and is usually divided into three branches: Semantics, Syntactics, and Pragmatics. Semiotics is frequently seen as having important anthropological dimensions. In general, semiotic theories take signs or sign systems as their object of study: the communication of information in living organisms is covered in biosemiotics or zoosemiosis. This book discusses the theory and application of semiotics across a broad spectrum and has gathered current research from around the globe.