UID:
almafu_9959712222002883
Format:
1 online resource (X, 357 p.)
ISBN:
9783110618808
Series Statement:
Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC] ; 28
Content:
The book is an in-depth presentation of the European branch of semiotic theory, originating in the work of Ferdinand de Saussure. It has four parts: a historical introduction, the analysis of langue, narrative theory and communication theory. Part I briefly presents all the semiotic schools and their main points of reference. Although this material is accessible in many other Anglophone publications, the presentation is marked by specific choices aiming to display similarities and differences. The analysis of langue in Part II is also available in Anglophone bibliography, but the book presents Saussurean theory according to a new theoretical rationale and enriched with later developments. In addition, it is orientated so as to offer the foundation for the part that follows. Part III is a presentation of Greimasian narrative theory, well documented in Francophone bibliography but poorly represented in Anglophone publications. The presentation extends the theory in both a qualitative and a new quantitative direction, and includes a great number of examples and two extended textual analyses to help the reader understand and apply it. Part IV, communication theory, combines an extension of Greimasian sociosemiotics with other schools of thought. This original theoretical section discusses fourteen consecutive communication models, the synthesis of which results in a holistic, social semiotic theory of communication.
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Frontmatter --
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Prologue --
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Contents --
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Part I: The field of semiotics --
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Chapter 1 Introduction: What is semiotics? --
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Chapter 2 A brief history of semiotics --
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Part II: The semiotics of langue --
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Chapter 3 The basic concepts of langue --
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Part III: The semiotics of parole (textual semiotics) --
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Chapter 4 Syntagmatic analysis: Narrative theory --
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Chapter 5 Paradigmatic analysis: Isotopies, qualitative approach --
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Chapter 6 Paradigmatic analysis: Isotopies, quantitative approach --
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Chapter 7 Late and post-Greimasian theory --
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Part IV: The semiotics of communication --
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Chapter 8 A global model of communication --
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Chapter 9 Social semiotics --
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References --
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Index
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110616309
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110616231
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110618808
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110618808
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110618808
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110618808
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110618808
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110618808
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110618808
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