New book: “Semiotics and Its Masters. Volume 2”, edited by Alin Olteanu and Paul Cobley

Semiotics and Its Masters Vol. 2

Semiotics has ever-changing vistas in consonance with changes in the ever-increasing complexity of life on Planet Earth.

This book presents cutting-edge work in semiotics, projecting developments in the future of the field. Authored by leading semioticians, Semiotics and its Masters, Volume 2 contains essays on learning, transdisciplinarity, science, scaffolding, narrative, selfhood, ecosemiotics, agency, cybersemiotics, pornography, nostalgia, language and money. The volume presents a panorama of semiotics as it will develop in the third decade of the 21st century.

CONTENTS

Preface

SECTION 1: SEMIOTIC EPISTEMOLOGIES
Welcome to Semiosistan!  Massimo Leone	1
Beyond teleonomy: Towards a biology of semiotic realism  Donald Favareau	13
Risky heuristics  Eric Landowski and Jean-Paul Petitimbert	39
The semiotic inquirer and the practice of empirical inquiry  Gary Shank	59
Transdisciplinarity as a solution to the challenges of the contemporary world  Basarab Nicolescu	75
SECTION 2: CONTEMPORARY SCHOOLS OF THEORETICAL SEMIOTICS
Notes towards a semiotic theory of learning  Andrew Stables	87
Scarcity and meaning: Towards a semiotics of economic transaction  Kristian Bankov	111
Applied ecosemiotics: Ontological basis and conceptual models  Timo Maran	129
The anthropological dimension of Greimas’ narrative semiotics  Jacques Fontanille	151
What happens? The Zemic model in existential semiotics  Eero Tarasti	169
SECTION 3: APPLICATIONS AND PRACTICAL DISCUSSIONS
Intermedial narrative as communication media: Imagination, narrative, and selfhood from Peirce’s semiotic perspective Yunhee Lee	205
Icons of modernity in belle époque Bucharest  Mariana Neţ	227
Glimpses into Peircean event imaging: Episode-simulation as a scaffold for right-guessing  Donna E West	249
Development of agency as semiotic empowerment: A Peircean analysis  Juha Ojala	273
On the corposphere: Body, eroticism and pornography  José Enrique Finol	299
Natural and cultural layers in the discursive becoming of language as a semiotic system  Zdzisław Wąsik	311
Index