1st Edition
Sign Crossroads in Global Perspective Semiotics and Responsibilities
Edited By Susan Petrilli
Copyright 2010
330 Pages
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Routledge
344 Pages
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Routledge
330 Pages
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Routledge
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Language is the species-specific human version of the animal system of communication. In contrast to non-human animals, language enables humans to invent a plurality of possible worlds; reflect upon signs; be responsible for our actions; gain conscious awareness of our inevitable mutual involvement in the network of life on this planet; and be responsibly involved in the destiny of the planet.... Read more
Preface: In Her Own Voice, John DeelyThe Seventh Sebeok Fellow, John Deely1. Semioethics and Responsibility: Beyond Specialisms, Universalisms, and Humanisms2. Working with Interpreters of the Meaning of Meaning: International Trends among 20th-Century Sign Theorists3. The Relation with Morris in Rossi-Landi's and Sebeok's Approach to Signs4. Iconicity and the Origin of Lanuage: Charles S. Peirce and Giorgio Fano5. Bodies and Signs: For a Typology of Semiosic Materiality6. Semiotic Phenomenology of Predicative Judgement7. On Communication: Contributions to the Human Sciences and to Humanism from Semiotics Understood as Semioethics8. Iconicity in Translation: On Similarity, Alterity, and Dialogism in the Relation among SignsIndex
Biography
Susan Petrilli
