Bloomsbury Semiotics Volume 1: History and Semiosis

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Bloomsbury Semiotics offers a state-of-the-art overview of the entire field of semiotics from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. With four volumes spanning theory, method and practice across the disciplines, this definitive reference work comprises:
Volume 1: History and Semiosis
Volume 2: Semiotics in the Natural and Technical Sciences
Volume 3: Semiotics in the Arts and Social Sciences
Volume 4: Semiotic Movements
Uniting fragmented disciplines under the framework of semiotic theory, this set emphasizes and strengthens common bonds shared across intellectual cultures, and facilitates the discovery and recovery of meaning across fields. Providing comprehensive overviews of the history and status of semiotic inquiry across a diverse range of traditions and disciplines, chapters are written by leading international experts. Together, they highlight key contemporary developments and debates before casting a vision for future research priorities, identifying unanswered questions and fresh openings for participation.
Providing the most comprehensive and united overview of the entire field for semioticians, Bloomsbury Semiotics enables anyone, from students to seasoned practitioners, to better understand and benefit from semiotic insight and how it relates to their own area of study or research.

Jamin Pelkey is Associate Professor and Program Director in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Ryerson University, Canada.

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List of Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Introduction, Jamin Pelkey1. Global Semiotics, Paul Cobley2. Pre-Modern Semiotics, Martin Švantner and Michal Karla3. Early-Modern Semiotics, Michal Karla and Tuuli Pern4. Pragmatist Semiotics, Winfried Nöth5. Post/Structuralist Semiotics, Massimo Leone6. Reality and Semiosis, Marc Champagne7. Evolution and Semiosis, Alexei Sharov and Kalevi Kull8. Consciousness and Semiosis, Jordan Zlatev and Piotr Konderak9. Iconicity and Semiosis, Göran Sonesson10. Opposition and Semiosis, Marcel Danesi11. Habit and Semiosis, Donna West12. Ideology and Semiosis, Susan Petrilli and Augusto Ponzio13. Classifying Signs, Priscila Borges14. Applying Signs, John Coletta and Didier Tsala EffaIndex

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