Preface: Semiotics in Theory
and Practice
Marcel Danesi
Introduction: Life in Global
Communication
Susan Petrilli
SECTION ONE: Peircean
Foundations in Semiotic Studies
The Way of Peircean Signs
Floyd Merrell
Peirce’s Categories and Sign
Studies
Vincent Colapietro
What Is Significance?
T. L. Short
SECTION TWO: Semiotics and Semioethics in Global Communication
A Global Approach to Communication,
Modeling, and Dialogism
Augusto Ponzio
Man–Machine Communication in the
Era of High Technology
Susan Petrilli
Bodies, Signs, and Values in Global
Communication
Susan Petrilli and Augusto Ponzio
SECTION THREE: Critical
Approaches to Signs and Communication, Genders and Subjects
Feminist Semiotics for Social
Change: The Mother or the Market
Genevieve Vaughan
Toward a Critical Semiotics:
Feminist Interventions in Semiotic Theories
Barbara Godard
Georges Bataille, at the Borders of
Communication
Marie-Christine Lala
Signifiers and Subjects
Paul Cobley
SECTION FOUR: Signs,
Communication, and Cultural Systems
The Three Crowns: The King of
Lydia, the Thane of Cawdor, and the Emperor of Ice-Cream
Thomas A. Sebeok
Semiotics and the Postmodern
Cultural Unconscious
John Deely
Culture(s)—a Conceptual Analysis
Jeff Bernard
SECTION FIVE: Signs and Artistic
Communication
Voice and Identity
Eero Tarasti
Language/Image/Project: The Artist
as Messenger
Joyce Cutler-Shaw
Signs in Aesthetic Discourse:
Iconicity, Intertextuality, Narrativity
Eila Tarasti
From Il nome della rosa Back to
"The Abbey of the Crime"? Texts by Umberto Eco and Jean-Jacques
Annaud — A Comparison
Gloria Withalm
Subject Index
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