John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1990. — 225 p. — (Foundations of Semiotics). Fortune-Telling as a Semiotic System The Language of Fortune-Telling Image Building and Establishing Credibility A Contrastive Analysis of Astrology and Horoscopes The Visual and the Textual in Cartomancy Fortune-Telling in Literature Concluding Remarks Motivation, Imagination and Magic
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — xiv, 198 p. — (Semiotics and Popular Culture). — ISBN: 978–0–230–10373–3. In this book, pre-eminent semiotician Arthur Asa Berger decodes the meanings of common objects of consumption and their perceived 'sacredness' in consumerist cultures. Using semiotic theory, consumer culture is dissected in new and fascinating ways. Semiotic Theory The Science...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2010. — ix, 196 p. — (Semiotics, Communication and Cognition). — ISBN: 978-3-11-021831-2. How can we account for the intensity and resilience of the meaning making power of the circus? For centuries, actually millennia, audiences have flocked to contemplate tight rope walkers, jugglers, tumblers, jokers, feats of horsemanship and wild animal training. All...
Apec, 2010. — 472 p. Su autor, Diógenes Céspedes, hace parte entrañable de la familia UNAPEC que me honro en presidir en estos días. Él destaca en eso que he denominado “argamasa noble” que con intelectuales y académicos hemos ido amasando con paciencia e inteligencia en los últimos años. Hasta hace poco era el director de nuestro Departamento de Español, al frente del cual han...
Rochester: Columbia-Bookfest, 1994. — 256 p. — ISBN: 0415114721, 041511473X. Smell is a social phenomenon, given particular meanings and values by different cultures. Odours form the building blocks of cosmologies, class hierarchies, and political odours. They can enforce social structures or transgress them, unite people or divide them, empower or disempower. The authors argue...
3rd Ed. — Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 744 p. — ISBN10: 1349953474, ISBN13: 978-1349953479 This book deals with one the most interesting aspects of human life-the search for meaning. It discusses how the science of semiotics is equipped to provide insight on what meaning is and how we produce it. Why is it that certain people routinely put their survival at risk by smoking? Why...
Routledge, 2001. — 193 p. This remarkable book, which is written in a very graceful, lucid and polemical style, is a symbolic interpretation of the rules of purity and pollution. Mary Douglas shows that to examine what is considered as unclean in any culture is to take a looking-glass approach to the ordered patterning which that culture strives to establish. Such an approach...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1989. — 233 p. — (Foundations of Semiotics). In the course of the long debate on the nature and the classification of signs, from Boethius to Ockham, there are at least three lines of thought: the Stoic heritage, that influences Augustine, Abelard, Francis Bacon; the Aristotelian tradition, stemming from the commentaries on De Interpretatione;...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2000. — 403 p. — (Foundations of Semiotics 7). This volume brings together a collection of papers on the general theoretical and methodological problems in the historiography of semiotics. It is not a history in the conventional sense, even though the main periods and figures in the development of semiotics are given due prominence....
London and New York, Continuum, 2000. — 190 p. The six essays of Visual Identities are an important contribution to the growing field of industrial semiotics. Floch's major strength is his analysis of signs in a way which is both industrially relevant and textually precise. Until recently there have been two quite different and distinct ways of understanding commercial signs,...
Van Nostrand Reinhold. 1989. — 360 p. — ISBN: 0442239181. Universally-recognized signs and symbols have always been among the most important elements of communication. By why is it that certain configurations of dot and line, and certain primary shapes, are perceived and remembered more easily than others? Taking the six faces of dice as his starting point, Frutiger writes...
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. — 136 p. To understand this text the reader needs a certain background in Western and Indian philosophical thought. It possible for Westerners to think about Indian art in an Indian way. This essay also threw new light on aesthetic ideas in contemporary Western art. The human and natural world are intrinsically related to one...
Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2012. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 1558491163; ISBN13: 978-1558491168. A selection of Martin Jay's recent writings on contemporary thought and culture, this is a book about ideas that matter — and about why ideas matter. Borrowing from Flaubert's notion of a dictionary of "received ideas" and Raymond Williams's explorations of the "keywords" of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 232 p. In recent years, the attention of semiotics has strongly shifted from a textual focus to an interrogation of social, cultural, and ethnographic phenomena: rituals, collective behaviors, urban dynamics, politics, memory, and lifestyles. This shift has led to a rethinking of semiotic traditions and its analytic tools, with a specific design to...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1992. - 295 p. - (Foundations of Semiotics). The papers in this volume are concerned with a variety of vitally important topics in philosophical logic, the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of science, and in the application of modern logic to wider philosophical problems. All of them make fundamental use,...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1993. — 153 p. — (Foundations of Semiotics). Charles W. Morris' doctoral thesis Symbolism and Reality, written in 1925 at Chicago under George H. Mead, has never before been published. It sets out to prove that thought and mind are not entities, nor even processes involving a psychical substance distinguishable from the rest of reality, but...
Michael O'Mara, 2017. — 224 p. — ISBN: 978-178243769. From logos to flags to punctuation marks, symbols are all around us. But we’re so used to seeing them that we never question why, for instance, the heart symbol is anatomically incorrect or why the Bluetooth symbol is named after a 10th-century Danish king in need of dental work. Symbols shows just how much importance has...
Michael O'Mara, 2017. — 224 p. — ISBN: 978-178243769. From logos to flags to punctuation marks, symbols are all around us. But we’re so used to seeing them that we never question why, for instance, the heart symbol is anatomically incorrect or why the Bluetooth symbol is named after a 10th-century Danish king in need of dental work. Symbols shows just how much importance has...
Michael O'Mara, 2017. — 224 p. — ISBN: 978-178243769. From logos to flags to punctuation marks, symbols are all around us. But we’re so used to seeing them that we never question why, for instance, the heart symbol is anatomically incorrect or why the Bluetooth symbol is named after a 10th-century Danish king in need of dental work. Symbols shows just how much importance has...
Sterling Ethos, 2016. — 106 p. — ISBN10: 1454919698. — ISBN13: 978-1454919698. Symbolism is the best evidence that we know and grasp more than we consciously realize — but what exactly are symbols? And how can we use them to expand our consciousness? A visionary psychologist answers these and many other questions as he delves into the symbolism of everything from shoes and...
Gorazd A. Timkovič, OSBM, Jozafát V. Timkovič, OSBM, Kríž, Krásnobrodský zborník, Prešov, II/1 (1997) str. 5-23 Shapes of the cross from the filthy swastika to the Orthodox cross. Je to odborný článok pojednávajúci z archeologického hľadiska o rozličných tvaroch kríža od pohanskej swastiky až po pravoslávny kríž.
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