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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lorusso, Anna Maria

Titel

Cultural Semiotics: For a Cultural Perspective in Semiotics

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

New York: Palgrave Macmillan

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 01 02 In recent years, the attention of semiotics has strongly shifted from a textual focus to an interrogation of social, cultural, and ethnographic phenomena: rituals, collective behaviors, urban dynamics, politics, memory, and lifestyles. This shift has led to a rethinking of semiotic traditions and its analytic tools, with a specific design to create a strong dialogue with other social sciences: anthropology, ethnography, sociology, and visual studies. In order to clarify what characterizes this recent cultural approach in semiotics, Anna Maria Lorusso reevaluates the work of some of the most important thinkers in this field: from semioticians such as Roland Barthes, Umberto Eco, Yuri Lotman, to anthropologists such as Lévi-Strauss and Geertz, and historians such as Michel Foucault. Lorusso details how the social sense and social communication can function together to analyze how culture works in the contemporary era. 13 02 Anna Maria Lorusso is Associate Professor of Semiotics at the University of Bologna, Italy. The author and editor of numerous books, her work has been published in such leading journals as VS and Lexia . 16 02 *Lotman, Juri. Culture and Explosion ( De Gruyter Mouton, 2010). While a foundational text exploring culture and semiotics from a European school of thought, this text does not serve as a true competitor as it is one of the originating texts in the field rather than one that engages current debates. 04 02 Introduction 1. The Structuralist Perspective 2. Unity and Pluralism: the Theory of Jurij Lotman 3. Interpretation and culture: Umberto Eco's Theory 4. Ideas for an Archaeological Semiotics Bibliography 02 02 Through a reevaluation of the work of some of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century, this book details how semiotics, social sense, and social communication can function together to analyze how culture works in the contemporary era.