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Sign studies and semioethics : communication, translation and values /

This book examines the issues surrounding the problematic perpetuation of dominant sign systems through the framework of 'semioethics'. Semioethics is concerned with using semiotics as a powerful tool to critique the status quo and move beyond the reproduction of the dominant order of comm...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Petrilli, Susan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2014]
Colección:Semiotics, communication and cognition ; 13.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Introduction. The semioethic turn in sign studies
  • Chapter 1. Signposts leading to semioethics: on signs, values and the non-neutrality of semiotics
  • Chapter 2. Insights into structure and structuralism
  • Chapter 3. Human modelling, puzzles and articulations
  • Chapter 4. Evolutionary cosmology, logic and semioethics
  • Chapter 5. Image, primary iconism and otherness
  • Chapter 6. Signs of silence
  • Chapter 7. Reading significs as semioethics
  • Chapter 8. The objective character of misunderstanding. When the mystifications of language are the cause
  • Chapter 9. The live word, value and otherness
  • Chapter 10. Translational semiotics, life processes and ideology
  • Chapter 11. Translation, iconicity and dialogism
  • Chapter 12. The semiotic machine, linguistic work and translation
  • Chapter 13. Extending semiotic horizons
  • Chapter 14. From the methodica of common speech to the methodica of common semiosis
  • Chapter 15. Global semiotics and the vocation for translation
  • Chapter 16. Social symptomatology and semioethics
  • Notes
  • References
  • Name and subject index.