Semiotics Unbounded : Interpretive Routes through the Open Network of Signs.
Semiotics Unbounded offers a new and original survey of the science of signs, evaluating it in relation to the problems of our time, not only of a scientific order, but also the problems concerning everyday social life.
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University of Toronto Press,
2005
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Series: | Toronto studies in semiotics and communication.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: An Excursion into Semiotics
- I.1. Two Meanings of Semiotics
- I.2. Protagonist: The Sign
- I.3. Stooge: The Interpretant
- I.4. Pragmatism as Pragmaticism
- I.5. The Verbal Sign's Influence on Semiotics
- I.6. Signification and Significance
- I.7. Signification and Denotatum
- I.8. Beyond the Verbal Sign Paradigm
- I.9. Subject and Alterity
- I.10. Word and Dialogue
- I.11. Dialogue and Inference
- I.12. Inferences and Categories: Semiotics, Logic, Ontology
- PART ONE: SEMIOTICS AND SEMIOTICIANS
- 1 An Itinerary: From Peirce to Others
- 1.1. Problems on Peirce's Desk
- 1.2. More Problems in Focus: Subjects, Bodies, and Signs
- 1.3. Neglected but Foundational Aspects of Peirce's Semiotics
- 2 About Welby
- 2.1. Why 'Significs'? A Contribution to Theory of Meaning, and More
- 2.2. Departure: Exegesis and Holy Scripture
- 2.3. Reading Significs as 'Biosensifics'
- 3 About Bakhtin
- 3.1. Philosophy of Language as Critique of Dialogic Reason
- 3.2. An Interdisciplinary Perspective and Detotalizing Method
- 4 About Morris
- 4.1. Behaviouristic Semiotics and Pragmaticist Semiotics
- 4.2. Semiotics and Biology
- 4.3. Sign, Dimensions of Semiosis, Denotatum, and Language
- 5 About Sebeok
- 5.1. Modelling Systems Theory and Global Semiotics
- 5.2. Semiotics and Semiosis
- 5.3. Sebeok's Works and the Destiny of Semiosis
- 5.4. Sebeok's Semiotics and Education
- 6 About Rossi-Landi
- 6.1. Rossi-Landi's Philosophy of Language
- 6.2. On the Tracks of a Multiform Research Itinerary
- 6.3. Communication, Mass Media, and Critique of Ideology
- 6.4. Rossi-Landi between 'Ideologie' and 'Scienze Umane'
- 7 About Eco
- 7.1. From Decodification to Interpretation
- 7.2. Interpretation and Responsive Understanding
- PART TWO: MODELLING, WRITING, AND OTHERNESS.
- 8 Modelling and Otherness
- 8.1. Modelling, Communication, and Dialogism
- 8.2. Identity, Otherness, and Primal Sense as a Modelling Device
- 8.3. Writing as a Modelling Device
- 9 Writing and Dialogue
- 9.1. Dialogue, Otherness, and Writing
- 9.2. Dialogue and Carnivalized Writing
- 9.3. Dialogue and Polyphony in the Writing of Novels and Drama
- 9.4. Storytelling in the Era of Global Communication: Black Writing
- Oraliture
- PART THREE: PREDICATIVE JUDGMENT, ARGUMENTATION, AND COMMUNICATION
- 10 Understanding and Misunderstanding
- 10.1. Semiogenealogy of Predicative Judgment
- 10.2. Objective Misunderstanding and Mystifications of Language
- 11 Closed Community and Open Community in Global Communication
- 11.1. Logic, Argumentation and Dialogue in Global Communication
- 11.2. Argumentative Logic at the Helsinki Conference
- 11.3. The Sign Machine: Linguistic Work and Global Communication
- 11.4. Otherness and Communication: From the Closed Community to the Open Community
- 12 Global Communication, Biosemiotics, and Semioethics
- 12.1. Semioethics, Community, and Otherness
- 12.2. Bioethics, Semiotics of Life, and Global Communication
- Glossary
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- Bibliography
- Index
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