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1. AI, Popular Culture, Semiotics -- 2. AI-Generated Literature -- 3. AI-Generated Cinema -- 4. AI-Generated Music -- 5. AI in the Mass Media -- 6. AI-Generated Art -- 7. AI in Marketing and Advertising -- 8. AI and Gaming Culture -- 9. Simulacrum Culture -- 10. AI and the Future of Popular Culture.

The fifth edition of Marcel Danesi's Popular Culture is an accessible, engaging introduction for popular culture, media and society, and sociology of the media courses. The fifth edition features updated coverage on social media and digital cultures, including those surrounding memes, video games, virtual reality, and streaming services. Pop culture surrounds us. It infuses the movies we watch, the music we listen to, the books we read, the clothes we wear, and the food we eat. It comes to us on our televisions, phones, computers, radio, and in every storefront and billboard we pass on the street. Danesi delves into the social structures that create and promote pop culture, showing how it validates our common experiences. Offering a variety of perspectives on its many modes of creations and delivery, Danesi shows why pop culture will always be something we love to hate and hate to love.

Cover -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- 1 Perceiving and Communicating Danger -- Prologue -- Perceiving Danger -- Communicating Danger -- Semiotic Relativity -- Epilogue -- 2 Representing and Interpreting Danger -- Prologue -- Representation -- Interpretation -- Folkloric Warnings -- Epilogue -- 3 The Sebeok Report -- Prologue -- Sebeok's Problem -- Recommendations -- The Atomic Priesthood -- Nuclear Semiotics -- Epilogue -- 4 Verbal Warnings -- Prologue -- Emotivity -- The Metaphoricity Principle -- Discourse Framing -- Poetic Warnings -- Epilogue -- 5 Pictorial Warnings -- Prologue -- Semasiographic Warnings -- Disaster Art -- Warning Pictograms -- Visual Iconicity -- Epilogue -- 6 Narrative Warnings -- Prologue -- Mythic Warnings -- Fictional Warnings -- Environmental Cinema -- False Myths -- Epilogue -- 7 Understanding Danger -- Prologue -- Representationality -- Emotivity -- Relativity -- Metaphoricity -- Iconicity -- Folkloricity -- Narrativity -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.

"Semiotics is being applied more and more to the study of digital media, which have made the production and use of new sign forms a daily event-forms that seem to evanesce almost as quickly as they emerge. These include, especially, memes, emojis, and digital narratives. How are these affecting our perception of meaning? What do they imply for the future narration of history? These are the types of questions that will be examined in this book. It has been written in as non-technical a style as possible, covering the main aspects of traditional semiotic theory and projecting them onto the contemporary world of digital communications"--

"The human body is a primary source of meaning-making, with the body conveying over two-thirds of our messages. But how can we understand these physical communicative cues? How are they being expressed and exploited in new media and multimodal online and mobile interaction? Offering an in-depth guide to help you investigate and understand real and virtual nonverbal communication using semiotic theory, this book assumes little previous knowledge of semiotics or linguistics. With in-depth, comparative case studies, each chapter deals with a traditional aspect of nonverbal communication, such as facial expressions, touch, and gesture, before extending the discussion to new media and cyberspace. Explaining the issues step by step and supported by exercises, directed further reading and a glossary of key terms, Understanding Nonverbal Communication provides you with all the tools you need to understand how nonverbal communication unfolds in all kinds of contexts, and the kinds of messages that it makes possible"--

"This is the first textbook on the linguistic relativity hypothesis, presenting it in user-friendly language, yet analyzing all its premises in systematic ways. The hypothesis claims that there is an intrinsic interconnection between thought, language, and society. All technical terms are explained and a glossary at the back is provided. The book looks at the history and versions of the hypothesis, including the research paradigms and critiques that this notion has generated. It describes work on testing its validity in various domains, from grammar to discourse and artificial languages. It also extends the notion to other forms of relativity, from semiotic relativity to discursive relativity. Overall, it presents a comprehensive overview of the hypothesis, with pedagogical activities in each chapter, including questions for discussion and practical exercises on various notions. The book also examines the hypothesis as a foundational notion for the establishment of linguistic anthropology. This essential course text inspires creative, informed dialogue and debate for students of anthropology, linguistics, cultural studies, cognitive science, and psychology"--

Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of boxes -- Preface -- Features of the Book -- Rapid Overview -- 1. Sociolinguistics -- 1.1. Language -- 1.1.1. Language Classification -- 1.1.2. Features of All Languages -- 1.1.3. Acquiring Language -- 1.2. Field of Study -- 1.2.1. The Birth of Linguistics -- 1.2.2. Sociolinguistics -- 1.2.3. Linguistic Anthropology -- 1.3. Methodology -- 1.3.1. Interviews -- 1.3.2. Fieldwork -- 1.3.3. Ethnography -- 1.3.4. Data Collection -- 1.3.5. Statistics -- 1.4. Merging Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Anthropology -- 1.4.1. Sociolinguistic Research -- 1.4.2. Variation -- 1.4.3. Markedness -- 1.4.4. Research in Linguistic Anthropology -- 1.4.5. Internet Linguistics -- 2. Language and Society -- 2.1. Vocabulary and the Lexicon -- 2.1.1. Core Vocabularies -- 2.1.2. Vocabulary and Social Systems -- 2.1.3. Group- and Community-Based Vocabularies -- 2.1.4. Semantics -- 2.2. Cognitive Semantics -- 2.2.1. Context -- 2.2.2. Metaphor -- 2.2.3. Metaphor and Society -- 2.3. Grammar and Phonology -- 2.3.1. Morphology -- 2.3.2. Syntax -- 2.3.3. Phonology -- 2.4. Language and Social Media -- 2.4.1. Social Media -- 2.4.2. Multimodality -- 2.4.3. Memes -- 3. Variation in Geographical Space -- 3.1. Dialects and Other Regional Variants -- 3.1.1. Mutual Intelligibility -- 3.1.2. Dialect Atlases -- 3.1.3. Pidgins and Creoles -- 3.1.4. Lingua Francas -- 3.2. Diglossia, Bilingualism, and Multilingualism -- 3.2.1. Diglossia -- 3.2.2. Bilingualism and Multilingualism -- 3.2.3. Code Switching -- 3.3. Languages in Contact -- 3.3.1. Borrowing -- 3.3.2. Nativization -- 3.4. Language Loyalty, Language Planning, and Literacy -- 3.4.1. Language Loyalty -- 3.4.2. Language Planning -- 3.4.3. Literacy -- 4. Variation in Social Space -- 4.1. Slang.

1. XOXO: The Religious Origins of Romantic Symbols -- 2. The Language of Love -- 3. Love and Sex: Are the Two Connected? -- 4. Writing Love: The Literature of Romance -- 5. Love in Images -- 6. Love Rituals -- 7. Love and Marriage: Do They Go Together Lie a Horse and Carriage?

"Media semiotics is a valuable method of focusing on the hidden meanings within media texts. This new edition brings Understanding Media Semiotics fully up to date and is written for students of the media, of linguistics and those interested in studying the ever-changing media in more detail. Offering an in-depth guide to help students investigate and understand the media using semiotic theory, this book assumes little previous knowledge of semiotics or linguistics, avoiding jargon and explaining the issues step by step. With in-depth case studies, practical accounts and directed further reading, Understanding Media Semiotics provides students with all the tools they need to understand semiotic analysis in the context of the media. Semiotic analysis is sometimes seen as complicated and difficult to understand; Marcel Danesi shows that on the contrary it can be readily understood and can greatly enrich students' understanding of media texts, from print media right through to the internet and apps"--