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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin/Boston :
De Gruyter
2014.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Semiotics, Communication and Cognition ; v.13. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b32203433*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction. The semioethic turn in sign studies; Part I: Critical semiotics, structures and models; Chapter 1. Signposts leading to semioethics: on signs, values and the non-neutrality of semiotics; 1.1 The sign science and its developments; 1.2 From "decodification semiotics" to "interpretation semiotics"; 1.3 The relation between sign theory and value theory; 1.4 Significance as a lead for significs and semioethics; 1.5 Humani nihil a me alienum puto; Chapter 2. Insights into structure and structuralism; 2.1 Structuralism and its range.
- 2.2 Structuralism, dialogism and biosemiotics2.3 Dialogism, communication and modelling from a global semiotic perspective; 2.4 Criteria and differences in the interpretation of structure; 2.5 Two conceptions of structure; 2.6 Binarism and triadism in structuralist approaches to sign theory; 2.7 Interpretive structures between signality and semioticity; 2.8 The role of interpretation in the structural dimensions of semiosis; 2.9 Critical structuralism, a pioneer bigradual approach to language; 2.10 Limitations and preconceptions in the generative-transformational approach.
- 2.11 Marxian proto-structuralism and the homological structures of verbal and nonverbal communication2.12 Ontologic structuralism and methodologic structuralism; 2.13 The human being, a semiotic animal, a structuralist animal; Chapter 3. Human modelling, puzzles and articulations; 3.1 Three modelling systems; 3.2 Form and puzzle; 3.3 Analogy and homology; 3.4 Levels of articulation; 3.5 Puzzles in logic; 3.6 Modelling and the jigsaw puzzle; 3.7 Modelling and primary iconism; Part II: Signification, logic, iconicity; Chapter 4. Evolutionary cosmology, logic and semioethics.
- 4.1 A universe perfused with signs4.2 Logic and cosmology; 4.3 Agape, the self and the other; 4.4 Agape and abduction; 4.5 Mother-sense, agapasm and logic; 4.6 Definitional aspects of abduction; 4.7 Ubiquity of abduction, dialogism and translation; 4.8 Abduction and genesis of the signified world; 4.9 Abduction and linguistic experience; Chapter 5. Image, primary iconism and otherness; 5.1 Iconicity, similarity and critique of representation; 5.2 Image and similarity; 5.3 Primary iconism; 5.4 Image and the pragmatic instance in primary iconism.
- 5.5 Signifying processes and the associative capacityChapter 6. Signs of silence; 6.1 Silence and responsive understanding; 6.2 Toward a typology of silence: conventionality, indexicality and iconicity; 6.3 Silence, iconicity and listening; Part III: Understanding, significs and dialogism; Chapter 7. Reading significs as semioethics; 7.1 Prefigurations of semioethics in significs; 7.2 Problems of language and terminology; 7.3 Triadic highlights on meaning; 7.4 Significance, modelling and translational processes; 7.5 Geosemiosis, heliosemiosis, cosmosemiosis; 7.6 "A new geneology of semiotics."
