The Semiotic Sphere

Author : Thomas A. Sebeok
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475702051
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Semiotic Sphere written by Thomas A. Sebeok and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although semiotics has, in one guise or another, ftourished uninterruptedly since pre Socratic times in the West, and important semiotic themes have emerged and devel oped independently in both the Brahmanie and Buddhistic traditions, semiotics as an organized undertaking began to 100m only in the 1960s. Workshops materialized, with a perhaps surprising spontaneity, over much ofEurope-Eastern and Western and in North America. Thereafter, others quickly surfaced almost everywhere over the litera te globe. Different places strategically allied themselves with different lega eies, but all had a common thrust: to aim at a general theory of signs, by way of a description of different sign systems, their comparative analysis, and their classifi cation. More or less permanent confederations were forged with the most diverse academic disciplines, and amazingly varied frameworks were devised-suited to the needs of the times and the sites-to carry the work of consolidation forward. Bit by bit, mutually supportive international networks were put together. Today, it can truly be asserted that semiotics has become a global enterprise. This, of course, is far from saying that the map is uniform or even that world-wide homogeneity is in the least desirable. While our conjoint ultimate goal remains steadily in focus, the multiplicity of avenues available for its realization is inherent in the advent ure of the search itself.

Author : A. Semenenko
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137008547
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Texture of Culture written by A. Semenenko and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this introduction to the semiotic theory of one of the most innovative theorists of the twentieth century, the Russian literary scholar and semiotician Yuri Lotman, offers a new look at Lotman's profound legacy by conceptualizing his ideas in modern context and presenting them as a useful tool of cultural analysis.

Author : Юрий Михайлович Лотман
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253214058
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Universe of the Mind written by Юрий Михайлович Лотман and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Universe of the Mind A Semiotic Theory of Culture Yuri M. Lotman Introduction by Umberto Eco Translated by Ann Shukman A major book by one of the initiators of cultural studies. "Universe of the Mind is an ambitious, complex, and wide-ranging book that semioticians, textual critics, and those interested in cultural studies will find stimulating and immensely suggestive." --Journal of Communication "Soviet semiotics offers a distinctive, richly productive approach to literary and cultural studies and Universe of the Mind represents a summation of the intellectual career of the man who has done most to guarantee this." --Slavic and East European Journal Universe of the Mind addresses three main areas: meaning and text, culture, and history. The result is a full-scale attempt to demonstrate the workings of the semiotic space or intellectual world. Part One is concerned with the ways that texts generate meaning. Part Two addresses Lotman's central idea of the semiosphere--the domain in which all semiotic systems can function--presented through an analogy with the global biosphere. Part Three focuses on semiotics from the point of view of history. A seminal text in cultural semiotics, the book's ambitious scope also makes it applicable to disciplines outside semiotics. The book will be of great interest to those concerned with cultural studies, anthropology, Slavic studies, critical theory, philosophy, and historiography. Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman is the founder of the Moscow-Tartu School and the initiator of the discipline of cultural semiotics.

Author : Thomas A. Sebeok
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110861313
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Semiotic Web 1986 written by Thomas A. Sebeok and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Hartley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 : 1501369210
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Digital Semiosphere written by John Hartley and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2022-07-28 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is only since global media and digital communications became accessible to ordinary populations – with Telstar, jumbo jets, the pc and mobile devices – that humans have been able to experience their own world as planetary in extent. What does it mean to be one species on one planet, rather than a patchwork of scattered, combative and mutually untranslatable cultures? One of the most original and prescient thinkers to tackle cultural globalisation was Juri Lotman (1922-93). On the Digital Semiosphere shows how his general model of the semiosphere provides a unique and compelling key to the dynamics and functions of today's globalised digital media systems and, in turn, their interactions and impact on planetary systems. Developing their own reworked and updated model of Lotman's evolutionary and dynamic approach to the semiosphere or cultural universe, the authors offer a unique account of the world-scale mechanisms that shape media, meanings, creativity and change – both productive and destructive. In so doing, they re-examine the relations among the contributing sciences and disciplines that have emerged to explain these phenomena, seeking to close the gap between biosciences and humanities in an integrated 'cultural science' approach.

Author : Thomas A. Sebeok
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110874091
Total Pages : 813 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Semiotic Web 1989 written by Thomas A. Sebeok and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 813 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jesper Hoffmeyer
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253112675
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Signs of Meaning in the Universe written by Jesper Hoffmeyer and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1997-02-22 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From reviews for the bestselling Danish edition: "... dashing and idiomatic language that is a pleasure to read." -- Berlingske Tidende "... an appetizer and eye opener... Hoffmeyer is a modernistic pioneer in the wide open spaces of the natural sciences... " -- Politiken "... extremely well written and interesting manifesto for a bioanthropology... " -- Inf. "It should be read by anyone who likes to be wiser and at the same time to be challenged in his habitual conception of the relations between culture and nature." -- Weekend Avisen On this tour of the universe of signs, Jesper Hoffmeyer travels back to the Big Bang, visits the tiniest places deep within cells, and ends his journey with us -- complex organisms capable of speech and reason. What propels this journey is Hoffmeyer's attempt to discover how nature could come to mean something to someone -- by telling the story of how cells, tissue, organs, plants, animals, even entire ecosystems communicate by signs and signals.

Author : John Hartley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781501369209
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Digital Semiosphere written by John Hartley and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A new approach to digital culture and how it makes meaning, mediation and planetary impact"--

Author : Thomas A. Sebeok
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110868385
Total Pages : 869 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Semiotic Web 1987 written by Thomas A. Sebeok and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-10-06 with total page 869 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Semiotic Web 1987 (Approaches to Semiotics).

Author : Thomas A. Sebeok
Publisher : Advances in Semiotics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Semiotics written by Thomas A. Sebeok and published by Advances in Semiotics. This book was released on 2001-09-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of semiotics underwent a gradual but radical paradigm shift during the past century, from a glottocentric (language-centered) enterprise to one that encompasses the whole terrestrial biosphere. In this collection of 17 essays, Thomas A. Sebeok, one of the seminal thinkers in the field, shows how this progression took place. His wide-ranging discussion of the evolution of the field covers many facets, including discussions of biosemiotics, semiotics as a bridge between the humanities and natural sciences, semiosis, nonverbal communication, cat and horse behavior, the semiotic self, and women in semiotics. This thorough account will appeal to seasoned scholars and neophytes alike.