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Interdisciplinary Approaches to Language, Discourse and Ideology
Edited by Iris M. Zavala and Myriam Díaz-Diocaretz
ISSN 0920-3060
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Edited by Paolo Fabbri, Herman Parret, Paul Perron and Eric Landowski
ISSN 0922-5072
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Language, Context and Text
The Social Semiotics Forum
Edited by Xingwei Miao and Akila Sellami Baklouti
ISSN 2589-7233 | E‑ISSN 2589‑7241
Language, Culture and Society
General Editor: Alfonso Del Percio and Cécile B. Vigouroux
ISSN 2543-3164 | E‑ISSN 2543‑3156
SFL Appliability, Visibility and Accessibility
Edited by Claudia E. Stoian, Jorge Arús-Hita and Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen
Special issue of Language, Context and Text 7:2 (2025) v, 297 pp.
The Complexity of Social-Cultural Emergence: Biosemiotics, semiotics and translation studies
Edited by Kobus Marais, Reine Meylaerts and Maud Gonne
Based on previous work that linked biosemiotics, semiotics and translation studies, this book further explores a variety of factors that play a role in social-cultural emergence. The volume, which presents a selection of papers read at a conference in 2022 with the same title as the book, engages… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 164] 2024. v, 195 pp.
Moving towards Peace, Compassion and Empathy through Semiotic Enquiry: Special issue of the Journal Language, Context and Text 6:1 (2024)
Edited by Elizabeth A. Thomson, Awni Etaywe, Ingrid Wijeyewardene and Penny Wheeler
Special issue of Language, Context and Text 6:1 (2024) vi, 225 pp.
Manufacturing Knowledge
Edited by Alfonso Del Percio and Cécile B. Vigouroux
Special issue of Language, Culture and Society 5:2 (2023) v, 112 pp.
Mapping “Language" in Education: Special issue of the Journal Language, Context and Text 5:2 (2023)
Special issue of Language, Context and Text 5:2 (2023) v, 166 pp.
Chronotopes and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Edited by Anna De Fina and Sabina M. Perrino
Special issue of Language, Culture and Society 4:2 (2022) v, 171 pp.
Iconicity in Cognition and across Semiotic Systems
Edited by Sara Lenninger, Olga Fischer, Christina Ljungberg and Elżbieta Tabakowska
This volume investigates iconicity as to both comprehension and production of meaning in language, gesture, pictures, art and literature. It highlights iconic processes in meaning-making and interpretation across different semiotic systems at structurally, historically and pragmatically different… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 18] 2022. x, 411 pp.
Italian Sign Language from a Cognitive and Socio-semiotic Perspective: Implications for a general language theory
Virginia Volterra, Maria Roccaforte, Alessio Di Renzo and Sabina Fontana
This volume reveals new insights on the faculty of language. By proposing a new approach in the analysis and description of Italian Sign Language (LIS), that can be extended also to other sign languages, this book also enlightens some aspects of spoken languages, which were often overlooked in the… read more[Gesture Studies, 9] 2022. vi, 220 pp.
Language, Epistemology, and the Politics of Knowledge Production
Edited by Alfonso Del Percio, Patricia Baquedano-López, Miguel Pérez-Milans and Cécile B. Vigouroux
Special issue of Language, Culture and Society 3:2 (2021) v, 135 pp.
Follow the Signs: Archetypes of consciousness embodied in the signs of language
Rodney B. Sangster
In this his latest book, Sangster presents a comprehensive theory that takes the cognitive view of language in a promising new direction, based upon how linguistic signs relate to one another at different levels of consciousness. At the rational level, where signs are necessarily experienced in… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 79] 2020. xiii, 175 pp.
Engagement in Professional Genres
Edited by Carmen Sancho Guinda
Engagement has turned essential in today’s communication, as professional communities are becoming more specialised and transient, and their audiences more diverse. Promotionalism and competitiveness, in addition, increasingly pervade human activity, and thus engaging readers, listeners and viewers… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 301] 2019. xiv, 373 pp.
Representing Wine – Sensory Perceptions, Communication and Cultures
Rosario Caballero, Ernesto Suárez-Toste and Carita Paradis
Wine culture is a complex phenomenon of increasing importance in modern society, and it combines the joys of wine appreciation with the frustrations of trying to verbally communicate sensory impressions. While wine appreciation is traditionally characterized as joyously convivial in its social… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 21] 2019. xii, 234 pp.
Dimensions of Iconicity
Edited by Angelika Zirker, Matthias Bauer, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg
This volume addresses five different Dimensions of Iconicity. While some contributions examine the phonic dimensions of iconicity that are based on empirical, diachronic and theoretical work, others explore the function of similarity from a cognitive point of view. The section on multimodal… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 15] 2017. xiv, 351 pp.
The Idea of a Text and the Nature of Textual Meaning
Anders Pettersson
In his account of text and textual meaning, Pettersson demonstrates that a text as commonly conceived is not only a verbal structure but also a physical entity, two kinds of phenomena which do not in fact add up to a unitary object. He describes this current notion of text as convenient enough for… read more[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 7] 2017. xiii, 196 pp.
Iconicity: East meets West
Edited by Masako K. Hiraga, William J. Herlofsky, Kazuko Shinohara and Kimi Akita
Iconicity: East Meets West presents an intersection of East-West scholarship on Iconicity. Several of its chapters thus deal with Asian languages and cultures, or a comparison of world languages. Divided into four categories: general issues; sound symbolism and mimetics; iconicity in literary… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 14] 2015. x, 279 pp.
Multimodality and Cognitive Linguistics
Edited by María Jesús Pinar Sanz
The aim of this volume is to advance our theoretical and empirical understanding of the relationship between Multimodality and Cognitive Linguistics. The innovative nature of the volume in relation to those existing in the field lies in the fact that it brings together contributions from three of… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 78] 2015. x, 212 pp.
The Semantics of Chinese Music: Analysing selected Chinese musical concepts
Adrian Tien
Music is a widely enjoyed human experience. It is, therefore, natural that we have wanted to describe, document, analyse and, somehow, grasp it in language. This book surveys a representative selection of musical concepts in Chinese language, i.e. words that describe, or refer to, aspects of… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 5] 2015. xv, 303 pp.
Iconic Investigations
Edited by Lars Elleström, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg
The contributions to Iconic Investigations deal with linguistic or literary aspects of language. While some studies analyze the cognitive structures of language, others pay close attention to the sounds of spoken language and the visual characteristics of written language. In addition this volume… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 12] 2013. x, 357 pp.
Creative Dynamics: Diagrammatic strategies in narrative
Christina Ljungberg
How do readers make sense of a picture, a photograph, or a map in literary narratives in which visual signs play a critical role? How do authors accomplish their various objectives in constructing such complex texts? What strategies and techniques do they use to project fictional worlds and to… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 11] 2012. vii, 190 pp.
Experimental Semiotics: Studies on the emergence and evolution of human communication
Edited by Bruno Galantucci and Simon Garrod
In the early twentieth century, Ferdinand de Saussure envisioned "a science which studies the role of signs as part of social life". About a century later, a science has emerged that is very much in the spirit of that envisioned by de Saussure. Researchers who are developing this science, which has… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 45] 2012. v, 161 pp.
Distributed Language
Edited by Stephen J. Cowley
The volume presents language as fully integrated with human existence. On this view, language is not essentially ‘symbolic’, not represented inside minds or brains, and most certainly not determined by micro-social rules and norms. Rather, language is part of our ecology. It emerges when bodies… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 34] 2011. ix, 220 pp.
Images in Use: Towards the critical analysis of visual communication
Edited by Matteo Stocchetti and Karin Kukkonen
News coverage of EU negotiations, children’s war memories or TV series glamourising political processes – images pervade both private and public discourse, and visual communication plays a key role in our social negotiation of values. Conceptualising images as “images in use”, this volume considers… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 44] 2011. vi, 298 pp.
Re-Covered Rose: A case study in book cover design as intersemiotic translation
Marco Sonzogni
When a reader picks up a book, the essence of the text has been translated into the visual space of the cover. Using Umberto Eco’s bestseller The Name of the Rose as a case study, this is the first study of book cover design as a form of intersemiotic translation based on the purposeful selection… read more[Not in series, 169] 2011. viii, 181 pp., incl. ills.
Semblance and Signification
Edited by Pascal Michelucci, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg
The articles assembled in Semblance and Signification explore linguistic and literary structures from a range of theoretical perspectives with a view to understanding the extent, prevalence, productivity, and limitations of iconically grounded forms of semiosis. With the complementary examination… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 10] 2011. xii, 427 pp.
Theory of Language: The representational function of language
Karl Bühler
Karl Bühler (1879–1963) was one of the leading theoreticians of language of the twentieth century. Although primarily a psychologist, Bühler devoted much of his attention to the study of language and language theory. His masterwork Sprachtheorie (1934) quickly gained recognition in the fields of… read more[Not in series, 164] 2011. xcviii, 518 pp.
Body, Language and Meaning in Conflict Situations: A semiotic analysis of gesture-word mismatches in Israeli-Jewish and Arab discourse
Orit Sônia Waisman
This original research applies semiotics to linguistic and non-linguistic segments in a text in search of potential correlations between them. The resultant mapping is applied to cases of gesture-word mismatches that are evident in conflict situations. The current study adopts the word systems… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 62] 2010. xi, 191 pp.
Signergy
Edited by C. Jac Conradie, Ronél Johl, Marthinus Beukes, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg
The title of this volume strives to capture the dynamic scope and range of the essays it contains, applying insights into the workings of iconicity to texts as far removed from each other in time as the Medieval tale of a bishop-fish and the war-poems of 20th century Italian Futurist F.T.… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 9] 2010. x, 420 pp.
Limiting the Iconic: From the metatheoretical foundations to the creative possibilities of iconicity in language
Ludovic De Cuypere
Iconicity has become a popular notion in contemporary linguistic research. This book is the first to present a synthesis of the vast amount of scholarship on linguistic iconicity which has been produced in the previous decades, ranging from iconicity in phonology and morpho-syntax to the role of… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 6] 2008. xiii, 286 pp.
Naturalness and Iconicity in Language
Edited by Klaas Willems and Ludovic De Cuypere
Iconicity and naturalness remain controversial concepts in recent linguistic research. The present volume aims to scrutinize unresolved issues of iconicity and naturalness in language. The studies discuss topics such as naturalism in the philosophy of language and the epistemology of linguistics,… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 7] 2008. ix, 249 pp.
The Quality of Literature: Linguistic studies in literary evaluation
Edited by Willie van Peer
Evaluation is central to literary studies and has led to an impressive list of publications on the status and history of the canon. Yet it is remarkable how little attention has been given to the role of textual properties in evaluative processes. Most of the chapters in The Quality of Literature… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 4] 2008. ix, 243 pp.
Speaking of Colors and Odors
Edited by Martina Plümacher and Peter Holz
How to speak of colors and odors? In many cases, we have to think about an adequate description of a perceived odor or shade of color. Words are not fluently available.The contributions discuss color and odor perception and its linguistic representation from different disciplinary angles: from… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 8] 2007. vi, 244 pp.
Mediating Ideology in Text and Image: Ten critical studies
Edited by Inger Lassen, Jeanne Strunck and Torben Vestergaard
While ideology has been treated widely in CDA-literature, the role played by the interaction of text and image in multiplying meaning and furthering ideological stances has not so far received a lot of attention. Mediating Ideology in Text and Image offers a number of approaches to such analysis,… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 18] 2006. xii, 254 pp.
Signs, Mind, and Reality: A theory of language as the folk model of the world
Sebastian Shaumyan
The book presents a new science of semiotic linguistics. The goal of semiotic linguistics is to discover what characterizes language as an intermediary between the mind and reality so that language creates the picture of reality we perceive. The cornerstone of semiotic linguistics is the discovery… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 65] 2006. xxvii, 315 pp.
The Building Blocks of Meaning: Ideas for a philosophical grammar
Michele Prandi
The shaping of complex meanings depends on punctual and relational coding and inferencing. Coding is viewed as a vector which can run either from expression to content or from concepts to (linguistic) forms to mark independent conceptual relations. While coding relies on systematic resources… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 13] 2004. xviii, 520 pp.
Perspectives on Multimodality
Edited by Eija Ventola, Cassily Charles and Martin Kaltenbacher
This volume sign posts several paths of multimodality research and theory-building today. The chapters represent a cross-section of current perspectives on multimodal discourse with a special focus on theoretical and methodological issues (mode hierarchies, modelling semiotic resources as multiple… read more[Document Design Companion Series, 6] 2004. x, 249 pp.
Signal, Meaning, and Message: Perspectives on sign-based linguistics
Edited by Wallis Reid, Ricardo Otheguy and Nancy Stern
This is the second volume of papers on sign-based linguistics to emerge from Columbia School linguistics conferences. One set of articles offers semantic analyses of grammatical features of specific languages: English full-verb inversion; Serbo-Croatian deictic pronouns; English auxiliary do;… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 48] 2002. xxii, 413 pp.
Languages Within Language: An evolutive approach
Ivan Fónagy
There is little hope of reconstructing by means of comparative or typological studies a lingua adamica essentially different from present-day languages. The distant preverbal past is however still present in live speech. Phonetic, syntactic and semantic rule transgressions, far from being products… read more[Foundations of Semiotics, 13] 2001. xiii, 828 pp.
Language Diversity and Cognitive Representations
Edited by Catherine Fuchs and Stéphane Robert
Significant new developments in brain activity research have revived the debate on the universality of language and its neural basis. Within this debate, the question of language diversity and its implications for cognition remains central and controversial. It is here investigated in an original… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 3] 1999. x, 229 pp.
Contrastive Functional Analysis
Andrew Chesterman
Why is a raven like a writing-desk? The concept of similarity lies at the heart of this new book on contrastive analysis. Similarity judgements depend partly on properties of the objects being compared, and partly on what the person judging considers to be relevant to the assessment; similarity… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 47] 1998. viii, 230 pp.
Toward a Calculus of Meaning: Studies in markedness, distinctive features and deixis
Edited by Edna Andrews and Yishai Tobin
This volume contains papers presented at a symposium in honor of Cornelis H. van Schooneveld and invited papers on the topics of invariance, markedness, distinctive feature theory and deixis. It is not a Festschrift in the usual sense of the word, but more of a collection of articles which… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 43] 1996. xxviii, 432 pp.
Cognition and Representation in Linguistic Theory
Antoine Culioli
The objective of this book is to better acquaint English-speaking linguistics with a corpus of texts hitherto untranslated, containing the cognitive-based research in formal linguistics of one of the most important theoreticians in the field: Antoine Culioli (b. 1924). Culioli's viewpoint is… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 112] 1995. x, 161 pp.
Iconicity in Language
Edited by Raffaele Simone
Several current linguistic approaches converge in rejecting the wide-spread idea that language is an autonomous system, i.e. that it is structured independently from the outside world and the natural equipment of language users. Around the world, semiotically biased linguistics (functionalism,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 110] 1995. xii, 315 pp.
Invariance, Markedness and Distinctive Feature Analysis: A contrastive study of sign systems in English and Hebrew
Yishai Tobin
This volume provides a new kind of contrastive analysis of two unrelated languages English and Hebrew based on the semiotic concepts of invariance, markedness and distinctive feature theory. It concentrates on linguistic forms and constructions which are remarkably different in each language… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 111] 1994. xxii, 406 pp.
Paralanguage: A linguistic and interdisciplinary approach to interactive speech and sounds
Fernando Poyatos
This is the first interdisciplinary book-length treatment of paralanguage, briefly defined as: nonverbal vocal or narial communication. After sensitizing the reader to our sound-generating movements and to all human external and environmental sounds for their unquestionable communicative qualities,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 92] 1993. xii, 478 pp.
Signs, Dialogue and Ideology
Augusto Ponzio
Signs, Dialogue and Ideology illustrates and critically examines both historically and theoretically the current state of semiotic discourse from Peirce to Bakhtin, through Saussure, Levinas, Schaff and Rossi-Landi to modern semioticians such as Umberto Eco. Ponzio is in search of a method to… read more[Critical Theory, 11] 1993. xviii, 185 pp.
Signs, Science and Politics: Philosophies of language in Europe 1700–1830
Lia Formigari
This book tells the story of how 18th-century European philosophy used Locke's theory of signs to build a natural history of speech and to investigate the semiotic tools with which nature and civil society can be controlled. The story ends at the point where this approach to language sciences was… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 70] 1993. x, 218 pp.
Studies in Functional Stylistics
Edited by Jan Chloupek and Jiří Nekvapil
The 15 contributions in the present collection can be divided roughly into three groups: (1) Papers directly following up functional stylistics and the theory of language culture, elaborated in the classical period of the Prague Linguistic School. (2) Papers concerning the problems of style in a… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 36] 1993. 293 pp.
Symbolism and Reality: A study in the nature of mind
Charles W. Morris
Charles W. Morris' doctoral thesis Symbolism and Reality, written in 1925 at Chicago under George H. Mead, has never before been published. It sets out to prove that thought and mind are not entities, nor even processes involving a psychical substance distinguishable from the rest of reality, but… read more[Foundations of Semiotics, 15] 1993. xxv, 128 pp.
Fundamentals of Story Logic: Introduction to Greimassian semiotics
Therese Budniakiewicz
Drawing largely on Propp's and Greimas' work on the narrative, this book is aimed at consolidating and extending their views through a series of concrete applications. The volume offers a critical examination of narrative structure in terms of its two basic syntactic units or sets of operations,… read more[Semiotic Crossroads, 5] 1992. xiv, 230 pp.
Linguistics and Psychoanalysis: Freud, Saussure, Hjelmslev, Lacan and others
Michel Arrivé
If you read or reread Freud, it is difficult not to find on a single page references to language: from speech to text, from slip of the tongue to word play, from letter to meaning-passing inevitably through the strange notion of literal meaning, that fascinated Freud. In short, the unconscious is… read more[Semiotic Crossroads, 4] 1992. xvi, 178 pp.
Le discours aspectualisé
Edited by Jacques Fontanille
L'objectif affiché du colloque 'Le Discours aspectualisé' était d'examiner à quelles conditions on peut passer d'une conception phrastique et linguistique de l'aspect à une théorie de l'aspectualisation discursive en sémiotique. La confrontation de plusieurs disciplines et de plusieurs méthodes —… read more[Nouveaux Actes Sémiotiques, 1] 1991. 234 pp.
Charles S. Peirce, 1839–1914: An intellectual biography
Gérard Deledalle
This work is the intellectual biography of the greatest of American philosophers. Peirce was not only a pioneer in logic and the creator of a philosophical movement pragmatism he also proposed a phenomenological theory, quite different from that of Husserl, but equal in profundity; and long before… read more[Not in series, 42] 1990. xxxii, 92 pp.
Essays on Significs: Papers presented on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Victoria Lady Welby (1837–1912)
Edited by H. Walter Schmitz
Significs is one of those (by no means exclusively) sign theoretically relevant movements which arose at the turn of the century. It established a philosophical tradition which, from its very inception, was interlaced with widely varying movements ranging, for example, from Breal's semantics to… read more[Foundations of Semiotics, 23] 1990. xv, 313 pp.
The Semiotics of Fortune-telling
Edna Aphek and Yishai Tobin
This book presents a semiotic analysis of the linguistic and extralinguistic elements of fortune-telling as part of a larger pragmatic-oriented theory of human communication. The material was collected in Israel, in Hebrew, and parallels are made with other languages and cultures. The analysis is… read more[Foundations of Semiotics, 22] 1990. vii, 216 pp.
From Sign to Text: A semiotic view of communication
Edited by Yishai Tobin
This volume contains selected contributions from the colloquium From Sign to Text' (Ben Gurion University, 1985) and combines the diverse interdisciplinary interests and approaches of the contributors in a fundamentally shared definition of language seen as a flexible and open-ended system of… read more[Foundations of Semiotics, 20] 1989. xiii, 545 pp.
On the Medieval Theory of Signs
Edited by Umberto Eco and Costantino Marmo
In the course of the long debate on the nature and the classification of signs, from Boethius to Ockham, there are at least three lines of thought: the Stoic heritage, that influences Augustine, Abelard, Francis Bacon; the Aristotelian tradition, stemming from the commentaries on De… read more[Foundations of Semiotics, 21] 1989. ix, 224 pp.
Semiotics and Pragmatics: Proceedings of the Perpignan Symposium, 1983
Edited by Gérard Deledalle
This collective volume contains carefully selected papers presented at the international semiotics conference ‘Semiotique et pragmatique’ that took place in Perpignan on 17 to 19 November, 1983. The volume starts of with four debate papers by Searle, Apel, Greimas and Landowski, and is followed… read more[Foundations of Semiotics, 18] 1989. xii, 467 pp.
The Prague School and Its Legacy
Edited by Yishai Tobin
Many of the fundamental ideas of the classical Prague School have guided or inspired much of the interdisciplinary post World War II research in linguistics, literary theory, semiotics, folklore and the arts. The Prague School promoted a humanistic and functional Leitmotiv of language as an open,… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 27] 1988. xxx, 317 pp.
Charles S. Peirce, phénoménologue et sémioticien
Gérard Deledalle
Le présent ouvrage est la première introduction française à une lecture systématique de Peirce. Par une reconstruction chronologique qui tente à supprimer quelques-uns des pseudo-problèmes que l’édition thématique des écrits de Peirce ont soulevés, cet ouvrage tente à donner une idée aussi exacte… read more[Foundations of Semiotics, 14] 1987. ix, 114 pp.
Language Topics: Essays in honour of Michael Halliday. 2 Volumes (set)
Edited by Ross Steele and Terry Threadgold
[Not in series, LT S] 1987. 1160 pp.
Leibniz. Language, Signs and Thought: A collection of essays
Marcelo Dascal †
Why was Leibniz so deeply interested in signs and language? What role does this interest play in his philosophical system? In the essays here collected, Marcello Dascal attempts to tackle these questions from different angles. They bring to light aspects of Leibniz’s work on these and related… read more[Foundations of Semiotics, 10] 1987. xi, 203 pp.
Bibliography of Semiotics, 1975–1985
Compiled by Achim Eschbach and Viktoria Eschbach-Szabó
This bibliography of semiotic studies covering the years 1975-1985 impressively reveals the world-wide intensification in the field. During this decade, national semiotic societies have been founded allover the world; a great number of international, national, and local semiotic conferences have… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 16] 1986. 948 pp. Bound in 2 vols.
Les Idéologues: Sémiotique, philosophie du langage et linguistique pendant la Révolution française. Proceedings of the Conference, held at Berlin, October 1983
Edited by Winfried Busse and Jürgen Trabant
Le présent volume réunit les contributions d’un colloque sur la pensée sémiotique et linguistique des Idéologues qui s’est tenu à Berlin du 3 au 5 octobre 1983. Ce recueil d’articles fait suite à un fascicule de la revue Histoire Epistémologie Langage qui était consacré au même sujet et dont il… read more[Foundations of Semiotics, 12] 1986. xvi, 404 pp.
Charles S. Peirce and the Linguistic Sign
David A. Pharies
This monograph is about the semiotics of lexical signs, and is of particular interest for historical linguists, in particular those interested in etymology. Specialists in linguistic change have long noticed that certain classes of words seem to be in part exempt from regular patterns of sound… read more[Foundations of Semiotics, 9] 1985. vi, 118 pp.
Exigences et perspectives de la sémiotique: Recueil d'hommages pour A.J. Greimas. / Aims and Prospects of Semiotics. Essays in honor of A.J. Greimas
Sous la direction de Herman Parret et Hans-George Ruprecht
The two monumental volumes making up this collection of essays hold the names of the world’s most renowned and respected scholars in the field of semiotics, and does more than full justice to the extraordinary career of Algirdas Julien Greimas. Before this mer á boire of some seventy five essays… read more[Not in series, 23] 1985. lxxxv, 1066 pp.
L’Espace et le sens: ‘Germinal’ d'Émile Zola. Essai de sémiotique discursive (Space and Meaning. Emile Zola’s Germinal)
Denis Bertrand
La sémiotique a-t-elle quelque chose à dire sure la littérature en tant que sœur des ‘beaux-arts’? Peut-elle rendre compte des raisons d’une réussite d’écriture? – Intention naïve, dira-t-on, que de vouloir décourvrir, sure la base des seules méthodes structurales, pourquoi une œuvre nous captive.… read more[Actes Sémiotiques, 2] 1985. 213 pp.
Significs and Language: With an introduction by H.W. Schmitz
H. Walter Schmitz
This is the facsimile 1911 reprint of Victoria Lady Welby’s very last publication Significs and Language. The Articulate form of our Expressive and Interpretative resources. This volume also includes two major essays from the author’s hands, ‘Meaning and Metaphor’ (reprinted from The Monist 3:4,… read more[Foundations of Semiotics, 5] 1985. (ii)cclxvii, 170 pp.
The Ubiquity of Metaphor: Metaphor in language and thought
Edited by Wolf Paprotté and René Dirven †
This volume brings together a number of articles representative of the present outlook on the importance of metaphors, and of the work done on metaphors in several domains of (psycho)linguistics. The first part of the volume deals with metaphor and the system of language. The second part offers… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 29] 1985. iii, 628 pp.
Women, Feminist Identity and Society in the 1980s: Selected papers
Edited by Myriam Díaz-Diocaretz and Iris M. Zavala
The general objective of this volume is to present and discuss different modes of existence in women’s texts and feminist identity in political and poetic discourse on the one hand, and to analyze the factors which determine differing relationships between women and society, and which result in… read more[Critical Theory, 1] 1985. x, 138 pp.
Learning and Hatred for Meaning
Hugo Kuyper Letiche
This study poses the problems of theoretical and philosophical pedagogy in the practice of teaching. The research goal was to improve my teaching. A concrete experience of undergraduate lecturing is the subject. This unconventional New Paradigm research strives for an immediacy of contact between… read more[Not in series, 18] 1984. 263 pp.
History of Semiotics
Edited by Achim Eschbach and Jürgen Trabant
This volume brings together a collection of papers on the general theoretical and methodological problems in the historiography of semiotics. It is not a history in the conventional sense, even though the main periods and figures in the development of semiotics are given due prominence.… read more[Foundations of Semiotics, 7] 1983. xvi, 386 pp.
Meaning and Reading: A philosophical essay on language and literature
Michel Meyer
According to the traditional view, meaning presents itself under the form of some kind of identity. To give the meaning of a sentence amounts to being capable of producing some substitute based on the identity of the terms of the sentence. Is then the meaning of a book, or of any text, the capacity… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, IV:3] 1983. ix, 176 pp.
Semiotics and Pragmatics: An evaluative comparison of conceptual frameworks
Herman Parret
Looking at the ‘semiotic landscape’ – the panorama of constituted semiotics – two traditions seem to have developed separately and without interpenetration. Anglo-Saxon semioticians consider the Peircean framework to provide the adequate conceptual apparatus, whereas so-called ‘Continental’… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, IV:7] 1983. xii, 136 pp.
What is Meaning?: Studies in the Development of Significance (1903)
Victoria Lady Welby
In "What is Meaning" (1903) the author elaborates on the fundamental tenets of her theory of sign, to which she gave the overall term ‘significs’. One of the main obstacles to an adequate theory of meaning, in Lady Welby’s opinion, is the unfounded assumption of fixed sign meaning. "There is,… read more[Foundations of Semiotics, 2] 1983. xlii, xxxii, 321 pp.
Semiotic Principles in Semantic Theory
Neal R. Norrick
This study represents a contribution to the theory of meaning in natural language. It proposes a semantic theory containing a set of regular relational principles. These principles enable semantic theory to describe connections from the lexical reading of a word to its figurative contextual… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 20] 1981. xiii, 252 pp.
Semiotics and Dialectics: Ideology and the Text
Edited by Peter V. Zima
By focusing on the “East European” dialogues and polemics, both contemporary and past, the present volume pursues two aims: 1) It would like to locate the discussion between semiotics and dialectics in an historical context. 2) It would like to make the reader familiar with the solutions proposed… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 5] 1981. vi, 573 pp.
Explorations in Semantics and Pragmatics
Geoffrey N. Leech
The aim of this book is to show the way forward to a coherent view of language in which the achievement of the formalist paradigm is strengthened to the extent that its claims are weakened. A formal theory such as generative grammar is a special theory which is to be subsumed in a general theory of… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, I:5] 1980. viii, 133 pp.
After Metaphysics: Toward a Grammar of Interaction and Discourse
Harvey B. Sarles
[Studies in Semiotics, 13] 1977. 286 pp.
Charles Morris and the Criticism of Discourse
Richard A. Fiordo
[Studies in Semiotics, 4] 1977. viii, 197 pp.