An examination of the promise looking at aspects ranging from its semiotic value to legal representations and its place in literature. This work considers texts such as Diderot's Madame de la Carliere and Moliere's Dom Juan .
Focuses on the role public display plays in the conflict in Northern Ireland, examining its nature and relationships to class based aesthetics, tradition, and popular style. In so doing, the book identifies an underlying symbolism and helps to explain the intensity of the conflict.
This compact, practical research manual that will help students, scholars, and general readers alike unlock the significance of the terminology, concepts, and historical movements of semiotics and related fields.
This broad-ranging text offers a comprehensive outline of how visual images, language and discourse work as 'systems of representation'. Combining examples with activities and selected readings it offers a unique resource for teachers and students in cultural studies and related fields as an introduction to this complex and central theme.
The first-ever thorough exploration and discussion of the rhetorical model of social invention [RSI] (initially conceived by rhetorical theorist William R. Brown) for today's students and scholars.
Presents a treatise that looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a 'five-pound note' with all that implies in terms of value and social meaning, from the printed piece of paper we see and touch.
This work covers such topics as: the anatomy of the communication process; language, meaning and messages; information and uncertainty - concepts and contexts; persuasion - concepts and contexts; and interpersonal communication - relationships, expectations and conflict.
Nelson looks at how language relates to the world and more particularly at the referring power of names. The first half of the book details the history of the subject from Locke onwards and is followed by Nelson's own reference theory.
This text argues that we can only interpret the meaning of public texts like road signs, notices and brand logos by considering the social and physical world surrounding them. Drawing on examples, this book equips students with the methodology they need to undertake research in geosemiotics .
Ever since Darwin, animal behaviour has intrigued human observers. The mating rituals, displays, songs and other signalling have raised many questions about animal communication. This work offers a theory for understanding animal signalling and extrapolating it to human non-verbal communication.
Philosophy and the Maternal Body is an invaluable study of the crucial significance of the maternal body in philosophy and is essential reading for all those in gender studies, feminist philosophy, psychoanalytic studies and literature.
This collection of essays on the psychology of pictorial representation forms a companion volume to Art and Illusion . Topics covered include the problems of perspective, the representation of movement, expression, gesture and action, and the role of visual images in communication.
Helps you learn how to decipher the hidden meanings beneath the surface of a Renaissance masterpiece, whether sacred, mythological, allegorical, or a portrait.
Based on the premise that deconstruction and demystification are a necessary counterforce to 'shared myths', Tochon offers a provocative assessment of mass educational concepts and teacher education, proposing a rethinking of pedagogy in general.
Focusing on analogical sensing, rather than digital reasoning, Merrell argues that human sensation and cognition should be thought of in terms of continually changing signs that can be accounted for in terms of topological forms.