Volume 2: Volume 2

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2023

Volume 2

Edited by: Alin Olteanu and Paul Cobley

Part of the multi-volume work Semiotics and its Masters

Volume 36 in the series Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110857801

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Contents

About this book

Semiotics has ever-changing vistas in consonance with changes in the ever-increasing complexity of life on Planet Earth.

This book presents cutting-edge work in semiotics, projecting developments in the future of the field. Authored by leading semioticians, Semiotics and its Masters, Volume 2 contains essays on learning, transdisciplinarity, science, scaffolding, narrative, selfhood, ecosemiotics, agency, cybersemiotics, pornography, nostalgia, language and money. The volume presents a panorama of semiotics as it will develop in the third decade of the 21st century.

This book will furnish the reader with an overview of the challenges that face explorers in the contemporary world of signs.

Author information

Alin Olteanu, Käte Hamburger Kolleg Cultures of Research, RWTH Aachen University; Paul Cobley, Middlesex University, London.

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
Section 1: Semiotic epistemologies
Welcome to Semiosistan! Massimo Leone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Beyond teleonomy: Towards a biology of semiotic realism Donald Favareau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Risky heuristics Eric Landowski and Jean-Paul Petitimbert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
The semiotic inquirer and the practice of empirical inquiry Gary Shank Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Transdisciplinarity as a solution to the challenges of the contemporary world Basarab Nicolescu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
Section 2: Contemporary schools of theoretical semiotics
Notes towards a semiotic theory of learning Andrew Stables Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Scarcity and meaning: Towards a semiotics of economic transaction Kristian Bankov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Applied ecosemiotics: Ontological basis and conceptual models Timo Maran Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
The anthropological dimension of Greimas’ narrative semiotics Jacques Fontanille Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
What happens? The Zemic model in existential semiotics Eero Tarasti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Section 3: Applications and practical discussions
Intermedial narrative as communication media: Imagination, narrative, and selfhood from Peirce’s semiotic perspective Yunhee Lee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Icons of modernity in belle époque Bucharest Mariana Neţ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Glimpses into Peircean event imaging: Episode-simulation as a scaffold for right-guessing Donna E West Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
Development of agency as semiotic empowerment: A Peircean analysis Juha Ojala Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
On the corposphere: Body, eroticism and pornography José Enrique Finol Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
Natural and cultural layers in the discursive becoming of language as a semiotic system Zdzisław Wąsik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Researchers in Literary Studies, Visual Cultures, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Philosophy, Ecocriticism
Pages
- Front matter: 14
- Main content: 342
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 14
- Coloured Illustrations: 19
- Tables: 1
Keywords: Transdisciplinarity; Critique; Semiotics; Discourse

eBook

Published: January 30, 2023
ISBN: 9783110857801

Hardcover

Published: January 30, 2023
ISBN: 9783110799910