Screen LibrarySign 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 communication....
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | [2014] |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Semiotics, communication and cognition [scc];
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| Summary: |
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 communication. The aim is to present semioethics as a method to engage semiotics in an active rethink of our ability as humans to affect change. |
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1 online resource(xxii,398pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9781614515227 |
| Index Number: | P85 |
| CLC: | H0 |
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction. The semioethic turn in sign studies -- Chapter 1. Signposts leading to semioethics: on signs, values and the non-neutrality of semiotics -- Chapter 2. Insights into structure and structuralism -- Chapter 3. Human modelling, puzzles and articulations -- Chapter 4. Evolutionary cosmology, logic and semioethics -- Chapter 5. Image, primary iconism and otherness -- Chapter 6. Signs of silence -- Chapter 7. Reading significs as semioethics -- Chapter 8. The objective character of misunderstanding. When the mystifications of language are the cause -- Chapter 9. The live word, value and otherness -- Chapter 10. Translational semiotics, life processes and ideology -- Chapter 11. Translation, iconicity and dialogism -- Chapter 12. The semiotic machine, linguistic work and translation -- Chapter 13. Extending semiotic horizons -- Chapter 14. From the methodica of common speech to the methodica of common semiosis -- Chapter 15. Global semiotics and the vocation for translation -- Chapter 16. Social symptomatology and semioethics -- Notes -- References -- Name and subject index. |