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Author: Anna Maria Lorusso
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-10-21
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1137546999
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough a reevaluation of the work of some of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century, this book details how semiotics, social sense, and social communication can function together to analyze how culture works in the contemporary era.
Author: Юрий Михайлович Лотман
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780253214058
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUniverse 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: T. Pawlowski
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9400990197
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUniqueness of style versus plurality of styles: in terms of these aesthetic categories one of the most important differences between the recent past and the present can be described. This difference manifests itself in all spheres of life - in fashion, in everyday life, in the arts, in science. What is of interest for my purposes in this book are its manifestations in the processes of con cept formation as they occur in the humanities, broadly conceived. Here the following methodological approaches seem to dominate the scene. 1. A tendency to apply semiotic concepts in various fields of research. 2. Attempts to introduce metrical concepts and measurement, even into disciplines tra ditionally considered as unamenable to mathematical treatment, like aesthetics and theory of art. 3. Efforts to fmd ways of formulating empirically testable, operational criteria for the application of concepts, especially concepts which refer to objects directly not observable, like dispositions, attitudes, character or personality traits. Care is also taken to take advantage of the conceptual apparatus of methodology to express problems in the humanities with the highest possible degree of clarity and precision. 4. Analysis of the p~rsuasive function oflanguage and its possible uses in science and in everyday life. The above tendencies are present in this book. It is divided into two parts: I. Methods of Concept Formation, and II. Applications. In the first part some general methods of concept formation are presented and their merits discussed.
Author: Arthur Asa Berger
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780803957343
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArthur Asa Berger's unique ability to translate difficult theories into accessible language makes this book an ideal introduction to cultural criticism. Berger covers the key theorists, concepts, and subject areas, from literary, sociological and psychoanalytical theories to semiotics and Marxism. Cultural Criticism breathes new life into the discipline by making these theories relevant to students' lives. The author illustrates his explanations with excerpts from classic works giving readers a sense of the important thinkers' styles and helping place them in their context. Berger also provides a comprehensive bibliography on cultural criticism for those who wish to explore the topics at greater length. Cultural Criticism is the perfect undergraduate supplemental text for such courses as media studies, literary criticism, and popular culture.
Author: Arthur Asa Berger
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2014-10-07
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781502704139
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSigns in Contemporary Culture is an introduction to the science of semiotics. It is unusual in that it has an application for every semiotic concept it discusses so readers can see how semiotics can be applied to many aspects of everyday life.
Author: Irene Portis Winner
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2019-07-22
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 3110823136
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo detailed description available for "Semiotics of Culture".
Author: Juri Lotman
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 3110218453
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDemonstrates, with copious examples, how culture influences the way that humans experience 'reality'. This work is suitable for students and researchers in semiotics, cultural/literary studies and Russian studies worldwide, as well as anyone with an interest in understanding contemporary intellectual life.
Author: Dean MacCannell
Publisher:
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780253051721
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Marcel Danesi
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1999-11-22
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9780253212986
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDesigned for classroom use in a number of disciplines, this comprehensive introduction to cultural semiotics is also an easy-to-use reference for those who would like a better understanding of the topic. No other text provides this kind of practical framework for the classroom study of semiotics. Each of the 12 chapters is clearly written and self-contained.
Author: Silvi Salupere
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789949323234
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA landmark of Tartu semiotics for nearly half of a century now is the semiotics of culture. The semiotic study of cultures was at the centre of interest in Juri Lotman's group, and in the Tartu-Moscow semiotics school in general. In 1973, the collective manifesto Theses on the Semiotic Study of Cultures was written under the leadership of Juri Lotman together with his Moscow colleagues Vjacheslav Ivanov, Vladimir Toporov, Aleksandr Pjatigorskij, and Boris Uspenskij. This marked the real birth of the research field called the semiotics of culture. This volume contains the republication of Proposals for the programme of the 4th Summer School on secondary modelling systems, written by J. Lotman (1970), and the Theses on the semiotic study of cultures (1973), as well as a Postscriptum to Theses, written by J. Lotman and B. Uspenskij (1979). Both the Proposals and the Theses are presented in English, Russian and Estonian; the Postscriptum only in English. The background and the further role of these texts is described in the accompanying article by Peeter Torop and Silvi Salupere.
