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The semiotics of fortune-telling /
This book presents a semiotic analysis of the linguistic and extralinguistic elements of fortune-telling as part of a larger pragmatic-oriented theory of human communication. The material was collected in Israel, in Hebrew, and parallels are made with other languages and cultures. The analysis is ba...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins,
1989.
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| Colección: | Foundations of semiotics ;
v. 22. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- THE SEMIOTICS OF FORTUNE-TELLING; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Notes; Chapter 1. Fortune-Telling as a Semiotic System; 1. Introduction; 2. Fortune-telling as a meta-semiotic system; 3. The discourse element of the meta-system of fortune-telling; Notes; Appendix; Chapter 2. The Language of Fortune-Telling; 1. The classification of fortune-tellers; 2. The data; Excerpt 1. The ""classic"" fortune-teller: Female coffee reader; Excerpt 2. The ""classic"" fortune-teller: Male astrologist; Excerpt 3. The ""Western specialist"": Male palm reader
- Excerpt 4. The ""Western specialist"": Female astrologistExcerpt 5. The ""intermediate category"": Female cartomantist and coffee reader; Excerpt 6. The ""intermediate category"": Male palm and coffee reader; 3. The omniscopus language of fortune-telling; Notes; Chapter 3. Image Building and Establishing Credibility in Fortune-Telling; 1. Introduction; 2. The data and analysis; Notes; Chapter 4. A contrastive analysis of astrology and horoscopes; 1. Introduction; 2. Horoscopes as a simple semiotic system; 3. An example of a horoscope; 4. Astrology as a complex semiotic system
- 5. Examples of astrological sessionsNotes; Chapter 5. The Visual and the Textual in Cartomancy; 1. Introduction; 2. The cartomantist-client encounter as a semiotic system; 3. The semiology of cards; 4. The system of language; 5. Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 6. Fortune-Telling in Literature and the Real World; 1. Introduction; 2. The literary texts; 3. The real world fortune-telling sessions; 4. The comparison and contrast of fortune-telling in literature and the real world; Notes; Concluding Remarks Motivation, Imagination and Magic; NOTE; List of Figures and Tables
- Chapter 1: Fortune-Telling as a Semiotic SystemChapter 2: The Language of Fortune-Telling; Chapter 3: Image Building and Establishing Credibility; Chapter 4: A Contrastive Analysis of Astrology and Horoscopes; Chapter 5: The Visual and the Textual in Cartomancy; Chapter 6: Fortune-telling in literature; References; Corpus of Literary Works; Newspapers; Name Index; Subject Index