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…

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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…

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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…

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New book: Lectures on the Epistemology of Semiotics, Zdzisław Wąsik

The book has been published in print and there is a pdf version available here. Zdzisław Wąsik. 2014. Lectures on the Epistemology of Semiotics. Wrocław: Philological School of Higher Education in Wrocław Publishing / Wydawnictwo Wyższej Szkoły Filologicznej we Wrocławiu (Philologica Wratislaviensia: Series Didactica. Vol. 1. Edited by Zdzisław Wąsik). 236 pp. ISBN 978-83-60097-24-3 https://wsf.academia.edu/ZdzislawWasik

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