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…
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 –…
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…
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…
Publication of Lexia n. 9-10
Lexia. Rivista di semiotica, 9–10 Ambiente, ambientamento, ambientazione Lexia. Journal of Semiotics, 9–10 Environment, Habitat, Setting a cura di edited by Massimo Leone A presentation of the volume in the following link: Lexia 9-10 Sample
Book: Grammar of the Cinematic Image, Rokhsar Vakharia
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…
Publication of Lexia n.7-8
Dear colleagues, We are glad to announce the publication of issues 7-8 of Lexia, the Semiotic Journal of CIRCE, the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Communication at the University of Torino. Please find a presentation of the volume in attachment: Massimo Leone 2011 – Presentazione _Lexia_ 7-8 Chers collègues, Nous sommes heureux d’annoncer la publication des…
New semiotic journal – SIGNATA – Université de Liège
SIGNATA – Université de Liège. SIGNATA aims to collect, organise and put to the test the approaches that drive current semiotic research. The title SIGNATA condenses two main questions on the path taken by semiotics: its origin as a science of signs cf. indiciality, indexicality and its development as a way of looking at the…
New book: Performance et savoirs – André Helbo
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…