Becoming Culture: Semiotically Illustrated Through Guadalupe-Tonantzín Coalescence, and Other Latin American Enigmas by Floyd Merrell. This book taps into Charles Sanders Peirce’s occasional allusion to a vague, flexible form of ‘logic’. Unfortunately he did not fully develop this idea. However, his concept of signs and pragmatic philosophy play a chief role in Becoming Culture. It…
Book Published: Gorlée, Dinda L. Wittgenstein in Translation Exploring Semiotic Signatures Series: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC] 9 http://www.degruyter.com:80/view/product/181689 Apart from the Tractatus, Wittgenstein did not write whole manuscripts for books, but composed short fragments. The current volume reveals the depths of Wittgenstein’s soul-searching writings – his “new” philosophy – by concentrating on ordinary language and using few…
Flap text of the book My question: does the cinematic image have a grammar? My hypothesis: that which is rejected leaves an indelible mark on what is selected. In exploring what makes the cinematic image ‘irreal’ (critical to both, the question and the hypothesis) an analysis of the film Yuva shows how the image is…
Performance et savoirs Sous la direction d’André Helbo Avec les contributions de Paul Bouissac, Catherine Bouko, Marco De Marinis, Fernando de Toro, Josette Féral, Judith Lynne Hanna, Katia Légeret, José María Paz Gago, Richard Schechner, Jean-Pierre Triffaux et Élodie Verlinden. L’interprétation musicale, le travail de l’acteur, l’exploit sportif, l’acte de langage renvoient à des modèles d’action qui ont été…
Victoria Welby and Significs Essays for a Special Issue of Semiotica 15 April 2011 Dear colleagues and friends: Marcel Danesi, as Editor-in-Chief of Semiotica, has asked me to Guest-Edit a Special Issue on Victoria Welby, occasioned by the book I have published with Mouton (2009), Signifying and Understanding. Reading the works of Victoria Welby and…
JULIA PONZIO, GIUSEPPE MININNI, AUGUSTO PONZIO, MARIA SOLIMINI, SUSAN PETRILLI, LUCIANO PONZIO Rolan d Barthes La visione ottusa
IL SEGNO E I SUOI MAESTRI Collana di studi linguistici e semiotici diretta da Cosimo Caputo Susan Petrilli – Augusto Ponzio
