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Outlines the development of sign study from its classical precursors to contemporary post-structuralism. This title identifies the key semioticians and their work and explains the simple concepts behind difficult terms. It is suitable for those who wish to know why signs are crucial to human existence

Ancient semiotics / Giovanni Manetti -- Semiotics of nature / Jesper Hoffmeyer -- Umwelt and modelling / Kalevi Kull -- Logic and cognition / Peer Bundgaard and Frederik Stjernfelt -- Realism and epistemology / John Deely -- -- Peirce, phenomenology, and semiotics / Nathan Houser -- The Saussurean heritage / Anne Henault -- Sociosemiotics / Anti Randviir and Paul Cobley -- Semiotics of media and culture / Marcel Danesi -- Semioethics / Susan Petrilli and Augusto Ponzio.

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This article responds to the papers in this special issue, considering the consilience of semiotics and "extended ecology." It compares both approaches with reference to the relation of language and Umwelt It suggests that one concept in semiotics which can contribute to the ecolinguistics in respect of avoiding solipsism in the consideration of phenomena of experience is "suprasubjectivity."

Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Section 1: Semiotics in the world and academia -- What the humanities are for - a semiotic perspective / Cobley, Paul -- Semioethics as a vocation of semiotics. In the wake of Welby, Morris, Sebeok, Rossi- Landi / Petrilli, Susan / Ponzio, Augusto -- "General semiotics" as the all-round interdisciplinary organizer - general semiotics (GS) vs. philosophical fundamentalism / Li, Youzheng -- Section 2: Semiotics, experimental science and maths -- Semiotics as a metalanguage for the sciences / Danesi, Marcel -- Mastering phenomenological semiotics with Husserl and Peirce / Sonesson, Göran -- Section 3: Society, text and social semiotics -- Farewell to representation: text and society / Marrone, Gianfranco -- Social semiotics: Towards a sociologically grounded semiotics / Lagopoulos, Alexandros Ph. / Boklund-Lagopoulou, Karin -- Section 4: Semiotics and media -- What relationship to time do the media promise us? / Jost, François -- Semiotics and interstitial mediatizations / Fernández, José Luis -- Section 5: Semiotics for moral questions -- Spaces of memory and trauma: a cultural semiotic perspective / Violi, Patrizia -- Media coverage of the voices of Colombia's victims of dispossession / Abril, Neyla Graciela Pardo -- Section 6: Questioning the logic of semiotics -- Sense beyond communication / Volli, Ugo -- Semiotic paradoxes: Antinomies and ironies in a transmodern world / Seif, Farouk Y. -- Section 7: Manifestoes for semiotics -- Semiosis and human understanding / Deely, John -- Culture and transcendence - the concept of transcendence through the ages / Tarasti, Eero -- Section 8: Masters on past masters -- From Peirce's pragmatic maxim to Wittgenstein's language-games / Gorlée, Dinda L. -- Semiotics as a critical discourse: Roland Barthes' Mythologies / Pezzini, Isabella -- Ricoeur, a disciple of Greimas? A case of paradoxical maïeutic / Hénault, Anne -- Index

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This review argues that The Human Use of Signs (Deely, 1994) is both pivotal and exceptional in the oeuvre of John Deely. It argues that the volume is exceptional because of its unusual explicatory structure and that it is pivotal because of its extended focus on issues arising from the distinction of 'sign', 'object', and 'thing'. Among these issues are the idea of the postmodern, objectivity, relation, and the semiotic animal.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction Paul Cobley -- 1 Communication Theory and Semiotics Richard L. Lanigan -- 2 Media/Culture Studies and Semiotics Sophia Melanson Ricciardone and Marcel Danesi -- 3 Digital Humanities and Semiotics Alin Olteanu and Arianna Ciula -- 4 Systems Theory and Semiotics Ricardo Gudwin and João Queiroz -- 5 Phenomenology and Semiotics Peer F. Bundgaard -- 6 Hermeneutics and Semiotics Ronald C. Arnett and Susan Mancino -- 7 Translation Studies and Semiotics Evangelos Kourdis and Ritva Hartama-Heinonen -- 8 Pragmatics and Semiotics Per Aage Brandt -- 9 Gesture Studies and Semiotics Irene Mittelberg and Jennifer Hinnell -- 10 Multimodality and Semiotics David Machin and Ariel Chen -- 11 Discourse Analysis and Semiotics Kay L. O'Halloran and Sabine Tan -- 12 Integrational Linguistics and Semiotics Adrian Pablé -- 13 Cognitive Linguistics and Semiotics Jordan Zlatev and Möttönen Tapani -- 14 Cognitive Science and Semiotics Göran Sonesson -- Index.

This unique volume offers an overview of the diversity of perspectives on communication: including analyses in terms of biology, sociality, economics, norms and human development. The scope of the contributions is global, and the volume is relevant to both the empirical and the philosophical traditions in social science. Designed as a stand-alone collection to engage undergraduates, postgraduates and academics, this is also an introduction to, the multi-volume Handbooks of Communication Science. Peter J. Schulz, University of Lugano, Italy;Paul Cobley, London Metropolitan University, UK.