New compendium of semiotics from Routledge
By admin-fera on Oct 21, 2010 in Uncategorized
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Edited and with a new introduction by Peer F. Bundgaard and
Frederik Stjernfelt, both at Aarhus University, Denmark
Semiotics (the study of sign processes—‘semiosis’—and sign systems)
embraces linguistics, philosophy, and literary studies, as well as linking to
anthropology, art, psychology, and biology. This new Routledge collection
helps to make sense of the subject’s huge interdisciplinary corpus of scholarly
literature and brings together the best and most influential materials from
‘the first phase’, neo-classics from the institutionalization of semiotics in the
1960s, and contemporary works illustrating the ongoing development of
semiotics and its widening applications (for example, in the natural sciences).
Volume I (‘Philosophy’) collects pre-modern material showing the genesis of
semiotics from Locke to Peirce, along with a range of work from the last thirty
years. Volume II (‘Linguistics’) includes key work from recent developments
in cognitive linguistics and cognitive semantics, while Volume III focuses on
‘Text and Image’. Finally, Volume IV (‘Logic, Biology, Psychology, Culture, and
Anthropology’) gathers the best offerings from other disciplines, and from
emerging fields such as ‘biosemiotics’.
For more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9780415476812
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