What do circus performances communicate? They are rich in extreme skills and clever staging. They trigger strong emotions. They make beautiful sense. This book, which is grounded in the personal circu
The book is the first annotated reader to focus specifically on the discipline of zoosemiotics. Zoosemiotics can be defined today as the study of signification, communication and representation within
Seriot examines the claim made by Roman Jakobson and Nikolai Trubetzkoy during the 1920s that a new era of science had arrived in the world, a new way of organizing knowledge, and that it was Russian.
This volume is the first reader dedicated to the discipline of zoosemiotics–the study of signification, communication and representation within and across animal species. The book features a variety o
Gorlee, a research associate at the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen, explores Wittgenstein's philosophical reasoning in translation, from a semiotic perspective. By focusing on his w
This volume reintroduces Peircean ideas within documentary studies. Through the work of three renowned filmmakers - Jon Jost, Johan Van der Keuken, and Rithy Panh - this book attempts to reassert huma
Writing for anyone interested in language, communication, semiotics and cognition, but at a variety of levels, Durst-Andersen (international culture and communication, Copenhagen Business School) deal
Tarasti (musicology, U. of Helsinki, Finland) presents the theory or philosophy of existential semiotics that he has been developing in previous books for the past 15 years. After years under the infl
Diagrammatic reasoning is crucial for human cognition. It is hard to think of any forms of science or knowledge without the "intermediary world" of diagrams and diagrammatic representation in thought
"This book is published 100 years after the death of the American polymath Charles Sanders Peirce to celebrate the first century of scholarship on his work."--