Title: Semiotics of Popular Culture ISBN: 978-3-86219-556-5 Author: George Rossolatos Release date: January 2015 Pages: 193 Available for purchase (paperback) at http://www.upress.uni-kassel.de/katalog/abstract_en.php?978-3-86219-556-5 Download the Introduction and the Table of Contents from http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2534969 Download sample chapter (A Dio: A Sociosemiotic/Phenomenological Account of the Formation of Collective Narrative Identity in the Context of a Rock Legend’s Memorial) from http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2516969…
New book: Creating Value, The Theory and Practice of Marketing Semiotic Research, by Laura Oswald
Creating Value, The Theory and Practice of Marketing Semiotic Research (Oxford 2015) explains how brands draw actual market value from thecultural myths, social networks, and intangible experiences consumers invest in marketing signs, symbols, and rituals. It guides readers through the process of managing brand value by means of consumer ethnography, cultural analysis, design research, and…
New Book: Eero Tarasti novel in Italian, “L’eredita di Villa Nevski”
The second novel by Eero Tarasti has appeared in Italian, entitled L’eredita di Villa Nevski. Translated from the Finnish by Vesa Matteo Piludu, edited by Paolo Rosato, 466 p. Casa Editrice Rocco Carabba, Lanciano.
New Book: Sémiotique du Fondamentalisme Religieux – Massimo Leone
Les médias parlent tout le temps de « fondamentalisme religieux » comme d’un élément essentiel de la scène sociale, culturelle, politique, et même militaire contemporaine. Mais qu’est-ce que c’est, au juste, le fondamentalisme religieux ? Comment peut-on distinguer un message fondamentaliste ? D’où dérive-t-elle la force communicative par laquelle ce type de discours s’est répandu de façon globale, surtout à travers…
New Book: Mathematics as a Modeling System: a Semiotic Approach by Marcel Danesi and Mariana Bockarova
“Serendipity, inference, and abduction present opportunities for solutions to the puzzles appealing to humans, mathematicians included. When successful, these intuitive semiosic leaps find pattern, even when the pattern may not be explained beyond the frame of the puzzle. In foregrounding abduction, Danesi and Bockarova refresh ancient queries about any distinctions between discovery and invention. The…
New Book: Dopo la semiosfera – Laura Gherlone
New book from Laura Gherlone, Dopo la semiosfera. (Con saggi inediti di Jurij M. Lotman) [After the Semiosphere. (With Unpublished Essays By Yu. M. Lotman)], Mimesis Publishing.
New Book: Spiritualità digitale: il senso religioso nell’era della smaterializzazione – Massimo Leone
New book from Massimo Leone: Spiritualità digitale: il senso religioso nell’era della smaterializzazione [“Digital Spirituality: the religious sense in the age of dematerialization”].
New book: Frederik Stjernfelt “Natural Propositions. The Actuality of Peirce’s Doctrine of Dicisigns”
Frederik Stjernfelt “Natural Propositions. The Actuality of Peirce’s Doctrine of Dicisigns”, Boston: Docent Press 2014, 340 pps. docentpress.com/ $15.67, amazon.com; £9.93, amazon.co.uk
New book: The Semiotics of Animal Representations – Edited by Kadri Tüür and Morten Tønnessen
The Semiotics of Animal Representations Edited by Kadri Tüür and Morten Tønnessen Amsterdam/New York, NY 2014. 376 pp. (Nature, Culture and Literature 10) ISBN: 978-90-420-3827-1 Paper €80,-/US$112,- ISBN: 978-94-012-1072-0 E-Book €72,-/US$101,- Online info: http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=NCL+10 The ways in which we represent animals say much about who we are, who we strive to be, and our often…