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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Published new issue 11-12 of Lexia Journal of Semiotics

Lexia 11-12 Download presentation-PDF: Massimo Leone 2012 – Lexia n. 11-12 – Culto_Worship – Presentation PDF Culto Worship Non è solo teologicamente che si pone la trascendenza, o nel foro interiore degli individui, ma anche, e forse soprattutto, nella comunicazione: è attraverso la parola, financo quella interiore, come pure attraverso i gesti, le posture, le espressioni del…

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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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CFP: International Journal of Marketing Semiotics

www.ijmarketingsemiotics.com PRESS RELEASE: LAUNCH OF THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARKETING SEMIOTICS (IJMS) We are pleased to announce the official launch of the International Journal of Marketing Semiotics (www.ijmarketingsemiotics.com). The mission of the International Journal of Marketing Semiotics is to constitute a reference point in state-of-the-art academic research in the field of marketing semiotics, by enhancing…

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Journal of Cognitive Semiotics, new issue: The Intersubjectivity of Embodiment

Journal of Cognitive Semiotics, new issue: The Intersubjectivity of Embodiment The newly re-launched Journal of Cognitive Semiotics announces the online publication of Vol. IV, No. 1: The Intersubjectivity of Embodiment, guest edited by Riccardo Fusaroli,  Paolo Demuru, and Anna Borghi, with contributions by Colwyn Trevarthen, Patrizia Violi, Michael Kimmel, Maurizio Gentilucci, Claudia Gianelli, Giovanna Cristina…

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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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New Book: Becoming Culture – Floyd Merrell

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…

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Wittgenstein in Translation Exploring Semiotic Signatures

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…

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