Tag: Semiotics

Free Download Peter Bondanella, "Umberto Eco and the Open Text: Semiotics, Fiction, Popular Culture"
English | 1997 | pages: 232 | ISBN: 0521442001, 0521020875 | PDF | 1,3 mb
Umberto Eco is known among academics for his literary and cultural theories, and to an enormous international audience through his novels The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum. Peter Bondanella offers the first comprehensive study in English of Eco’s works. In clear and accessible language, he traces the development of Eco’s interests, from medieval aesthetics to semiotics to popular culture, and shows how Eco’s own fiction grows out of his literary and cultural theories. Bondanella also provides a full bibliography of works by and about Eco, arguably the most famous Italian writer since Dante.

Free Download Libby Schwartz Abraham Solomonick, "A Theory of General Semiotics: The Science of Signs, Sign-Systems, and Semiotic Reality"
English | ISBN: 1443877182 | 2015 | 415 pages | PDF | 1079 KB
This book is devoted to the topic of general semiotics. It formulates some of the central laws and parameters of the paradigm of general semiotics, and illustrates them with various examples from branch semiotics from the systems of semiotics of that are already in use in particular fields of endeavour. These laws and illustrations will prove useful for every distinct instance of branch semiotics, both those that are already well-established and those that will appear in the future.

Free Download Visible Signs: An Introduction to Semiotics in the Visual Arts (2nd Edition) by David Crow
English | 2011 | ISBN: 2940411425 | 192 Pages | PDF | 45.4 MB
Basic semiotic theories are taught in most art schools as part of a contextual studies program, but many students find it difficult to understand how these ideas might impact on their own practice.

Free Download Cartographic Communication
by Mericskay, Boris;
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9781789450910 | 260 pages | True PDF EPUB | 101.75 MB

Free Download The Semiotics of Law in Legal Education By Francis J. Mootz III (auth.), Jan M. Broekman, Francis J. Mootz III (eds.)
2011 | 255 Pages | ISBN: 9400753594 | PDF | 3 MB
This book offers educational experiences, including reflections and the resulting essays, from the Roberta Kevelson Seminar on Law and Semiotics held during 2008 – 2011 at Penn State University’s Dickinson School of Law. The texts address educational aspects of law that require attention and that also are issues in traditional jurisprudence and legal theory. The book introduces education in legal semiotics as it evolves in a legal curriculum. Specific semiotic concepts, such as "sign", "symbol" or "legal language," demonstrate how a lawyer’s professionally important tasks of name-giving and meaning-giving are seldom completely understood by lawyers or laypeople. These concepts require analyses of considerable depth to understand the expressiveness of these legal names and meanings, and to understand how lawyers can "say the law," or urge such a saying correctly and effectively in the context of a natural language that is understandable to all of us. The book brings together the structure of the Seminar, its foundational philosophical problems, the specifics of legal history, and the semiotics of the legal system with specific themes such as gender, family law, and business law.

Free Download Eva Maagerø, "Women in Social Semiotics and SFL "
English | ISBN: 0367356023 | 2021 | 238 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 5 MB
This book showcases interviews with nine women who have made pioneering contributions to social semiotics and systemic functional linguistics (SFL), highlighting how these women have taken the discipline into new and innovative directions, and the enduring impact of their work.

Free Download Žarko Paić, "Fashion Theory and the Visual Semiotics of the Body"
English | ISBN: 1527585824 | 2022 | 200 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Instead of the logic of representation of fashion in the light of modern society and postmodern culture, this book argues that contemporary fashion should be regarded as a performative-conceptual turn in the very core of body iconograms. The text presents a theoretical perspective of the phenomenon of fashion within fashion theory as establishing a new approach from visual semiotics. Through this lens, fashion, therefore, emerges as a visual code of contemporary societies and cultures in the networked matrices of hyperreality and visions of that coming time that will determine the combination of cybernetics, fetishism and transgression.

Free Download The Semiotics of Information Systems: A Research Methodology for the Digital Age
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031342984 | 398 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 5 MB
The central concepts of information meaning, embodied cognition and semiotics are hugely relevant to contemporary organisations and personal and social lives. However, these concepts are not well understood and are frequently under-represented, misrepresented, and their importance seriously underplayed in the study of management. This is particularly noticeable in the study of the information systems and digital technologies that underpin so much of business operations, personal and social life, organisation, communication and management today.