New Book – Peirce and Biosemiotics: A Guess at the Riddle of Life

“Peirce and Biosemiotics: A Guess at the Riddle of Life” (Springer) Edited by Vinicius romanini and Eliseo Fernández Short description: This volume discusses the importance of Peirce´s philosophy and theory of signs to the development of Biosemiotics, the science that studies the deep interrelation between meaning and life. Peirce considered semeiotic as a general logic…

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New Book – //rhetor.dixit//: Understanding ad texts’ rhetorical structure for differential figurative advantage

Title: //rhetor.dixit//: Understanding ad texts’ rhetorical structure for differential figurative advantage ISBN: 978-1492259695 Author: George Rossolatos Release date: August 2013 Pages: 188 Available for purchase (full-color, paperback) at: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1492259691     Download your free complimentary ebook copy @ (readable with mobipocket) http://bit.ly/17CfJaH   Publication objectives: This book was put together over the course of the…

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New Book: Interdiscipline et arts du spectacle vivant

Interdiscipline et arts du spectacle vivant Sous la direction d’André Helbo, Catherine Bouko et Élodie Verlinden Le concept d’interdiscipline, mobilisé habituellement dans les sciences de la communication, trouve dans le champ du spectacle vivant un nouvel écho. Les recherches en arts du spectacle connaissent actuellement une mutation sans précédent, sous l’impulsion d’un dialogue qui convoque des modèles de décloisonnement. Une…

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Book: Brand equity planning with structuralist rhetorical semiotics Vol.I

Press release Brand equity planning with structuralist rhetorical semiotics Vol.I  Title: Brand equity planning with structuralist rhetorical semiotics Vol.I ISBN: 978-1481843157 Author: George Rossolatos Release date: 2012 Pages: 260 Available at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/148184315X   Publication objectives: This book seeks to outline a structuralist rhetorical semiotic approach to brand equity planning, with view to addressing how…

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New Book: Introduction to Peircean Visual Semiotics – Tony Jappy

Description: Contemporary culture is as much visual as literary. This book explores an approach to the communicative power of the pictorial and multimodal documents that make up this visual culture, using Peircean semiotics. It develops the enormous theoretical potential of Peirce’s theory of signs of signs (semiotics) and the persuasive strategies in which they are…

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Book: Linguistic Anthropology: A Brief Introduction

Linguistic Anthropology: A Brief Introduction, Third Edition Marcel Danesi August 2012 • 978-1-55130-489-2 • $39.95 • 268pp Anthropologists have always put language at the centre of their agenda. So too have linguists. Anthropological linguistics, the amalgam of the two disciplines, aims to document and examine how language mirrors social structure and culture-specific thought patterns. Linguistic Anthropology:…

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Book Realease in Nanjing: Proceedings of the 10th World Congress of the IASS-AIS

The Proceedings of the 10th World Congress of the IASS-AIS (A Coruña) will be launched during the 11th World Congress of the IASS-AIS in Nanjing.  Culture of Communication/Communication of Culture. Culture de la Communication/Communication de la Culture. Cultura de la Comunicación/Comunicación de la Cultura. Proceedings of  the 10th World Congress of the International Association for…

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Book: Towards a semiotics of brand equity: Brand coherence and communicative consistency through structuralist operations and rhetorical transformations

The principal aim of the book at hand consists in a prolegomena to the construction of an innovative approach of structuralist rhetorical semiotics as a formal metalanguage and method in the form of a conceptual model, coupled with a transformative grammar and a stepwise methodology with view to addressing a crucial gap in the existing…

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Book: Sémiotique de l’âme (3 vols) – Massimo Leone

See presentation pages vol.1 in PDF: Massimo Leone 2012 – Sémiotique de l âme – Volume I – Pages de présentation (1) See presentation pages vol.2 in PDF: Massimo Leone 2012 – Sémiotique de l âme volume II – Pages de présentation See presentation pages vol.3 in PDF: Massimo Leone 2012 – Sémiotique de l âme volume III –…

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