Full Description
Bloomsbury Semiotics offers a state-of-the-art overview of the entire field of semiotics by revealing its influence on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. With four volumes spanning theory, method and practice across the disciplines, this definitive reference work emphasizes and strengthens common bonds shared across intellectual cultures, and facilitates the discovery and recovery of meaning across fields. It comprises:
Volume 1: History and Semiosis
Volume 2: Semiotics in the Natural and Technical Sciences
Volume 3: Semiotics in the Arts and Social Sciences
Volume 4: Semiotic Movements
Written by leading international experts, the chapters provide comprehensive overviews of the history and status of semiotic inquiry across a diverse range of traditions and disciplines. Together, they highlight key contemporary developments and debates along with ongoing research priorities. Providing the most comprehensive and united overview of the field, Bloomsbury Semiotics enables anyone, from students to seasoned practitioners, to better understand and benefit from semiotic insight and how it relates to their own area of study or research.
Volume 3: Semiotics in the Arts and Social Sciences presents the state-of-the art in semiotic approaches to disciplines ranging from philosophy and anthropology to history and archaeology, from sociology and religious studies to music, dance, rhetoric, literature, and structural linguistics. Each chapter goes casts a vision for future research priorities, unanswered questions, and fresh openings for semiotic participation in these and related fields.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Introduction, Susan Petrilli and Sophia Melanson Ricciardone
1. Semiotics in Philosophy and Critical Theory, Vincent Colapietro
2. Semiotics in Anthropology and Ethnography, Sally Ness and Steve Coleman
3. Semiotics in History and Archaeology, Marek Tamm and Robert Preucel
4. Semiotics in Theology and Religious Studies, Massimo Leone
5. Semiotics in Ethics and Caring, Susan Petrilli
6. Semiotics in Sociology and Political Science, Risto Heiskala and Peeter Selg
7. Semiotics in Learning and Education, Andrew Stables and Alin Olteanu
8. Semiotics in Picture and Image Studies, Sara Lenninger and Göran Sonesson
9. Semiotics in Film and Video Studies, Piero Polidoro and Adriano D'Aloia
10. Semiotics in Music and Musicology, William Dougherty and Esti Sheinberg
11. Semiotics in Performance and Dance, Nikoleta Popa Blanariu
12. Semiotics in Rhetoric and Poetics, Per Aage Brandt and Todd Oakely
13. Semiotics in Literature and Narratology, Stéphanie Walsh Matthews and Paul Perron
14. Semiotics in Structural Linguistics, Anne-Gaëlle Toutain and Ekaterina Velmezova
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