Theatre is composed of a multitude of signifying systems that have a dual function as literary practice and as performance practice. In Theatre Semiotics Fernando de Toro carefully considers the mult
Semiotics, Media Studies and Communication Studies are three closely interlinked fields. Briefly stated, Semiotics, the science of signs, looks at how humans search for and construct meaning; Communic
The Mysterious Barricades makes the case that escaping the enthrallment of recent theory in literary criticism and the philosophy of language will be impossible so long as the meaning relationship is
Historically there has been a wide gulf between European and Anglo/American thought on the philosophy of language, in part because it is often difficult to find important European works in English tra
In traditional semantics, the human body tends to be ignored in the process of constructing meaning. Horst Ruthrof argues, by contrast, that the body is an integral part of this hermeneutic activity.R
Constructs an argument for the place and necessity of semiotics within the interpretive process of theater, the beginning stage of a theory that accounts for the variables and transformations in recep
The interpretive science of semiotics offers powerful analytical tools for the application of many disciplines to the study of perception. Semiotics is the study of signs, and as such, is of relevance
Ehrat (philosophy and social science, Pontifica U. Gregoriana) says he is in the business of film theory, not film interpretation, and so considers film as a genre rather than particular films, and is
At a moment when 'literature' threatens to be collapsed into other discourses, or to be subsumed by such terms as 'narrative' and 'genre,' Jurgen Dines Johansen, although he recognizes its protean nat
Grounded in the semiotic thought of Charles Sanders Peirce, America's greatest polymath, Howard A. Smith's Teaching Adolescents addresses topics in educational psychology from a semiotic or sign-based
Preferring organic "topological knowing" to postmodernism's fragmented "surface" knowing, Merrell (foreign languages and literatures, Purdue U.) presents an intriguing, multidisciplinary case for view
Historically there has been a wide gulf between European and Anglo/American thought on the philosophy of language, in part because it is often difficult to find important European works in English tra
