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

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