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Author | : Arthur Asa Berger |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-10-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781502704139 |
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Signs in Contemporary Culture is an introduction to the science of semiotics. It is unusual in that it has an application for every semiotic concept it discusses so readers can see how semiotics can be applied to many aspects of everyday life.
Author | : Vera da Silva Sinha |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2020-04-30 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027261245 |
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The dynamics of language, culture and identity are a major focus for many linguists and cognitive and cultural researchers. This book explores the inextricable connection that language has with cultural identity and cultural practices, with a particular emphasis on how they contribute to shaping personal identity. The volume brings together selected peer-reviewed papers from the 7th International Conference on Language, Culture and Mind with other specially commissioned chapters. Like the conference, this book aims to enhance mutual understanding among researchers from diverse disciplinary and theoretical perspectives, offering a wealth of insights to a wide range of readers on recent culturally oriented cognitive studies of language.
Author | : Margaret Bender |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2003-04-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0807860050 |
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Based on extensive fieldwork in the community of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in western North Carolina, this book uses a semiotic approach to investigate the historic and contemporary role of the Sequoyan syllabary--the written system for representing the sounds of the Cherokee language--in Eastern Cherokee life. The Cherokee syllabary was invented in the 1820s by the respected Cherokee Sequoyah. The syllabary quickly replaced alternative writing systems for Cherokee and was reportedly in widespread use by the mid-nineteenth century. After that, literacy in Cherokee declined, except in specialized religious contexts. But as Bender shows, recent interest in cultural revitalization among the Cherokees has increased the use of the syllabary in education, publications, and even signage. Bender also explores the role played by the syllabary within the ever more important context of tourism. (The Eastern Cherokee Band hosts millions of visitors each year in the Great Smoky Mountains.) English is the predominant language used in the Cherokee community, but Bender shows how the syllabary is used in special and subtle ways that help to shape a shared cultural and linguistic identity among the Cherokees. Signs of Cherokee Culture thus makes an important contribution to the ethnographic literature on culturally specific literacies.
Author | : Douglas C. Baynton |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 1998-04-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0226039684 |
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Forbidden Signs explores American culture from the mid-nineteenth century to 1920 through the lens of one striking episode: the campaign led by Alexander Graham Bell and other prominent Americans to suppress the use of sign language among deaf people. The ensuing debate over sign language invoked such fundamental questions as what distinguished Americans from non-Americans, civilized people from "savages," humans from animals, men from women, the natural from the unnatural, and the normal from the abnormal. An advocate of the return to sign language, Baynton found that although the grounds of the debate have shifted, educators still base decisions on many of the same metaphors and images that led to the misguided efforts to eradicate sign language. "Baynton's brilliant and detailed history, Forbidden Signs, reminds us that debates over the use of dialects or languages are really the linguistic tip of a mostly submerged argument about power, social control, nationalism, who has the right to speak and who has the right to control modes of speech."—Lennard J. Davis, The Nation "Forbidden Signs is replete with good things."—Hugh Kenner, New York Times Book Review
Author | : Imre Gráfik |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Semiotics |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Betty R. McGraw |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781587292415 |
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Author | : Clare Gibson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Signs and symbols |
ISBN | : 9780760702178 |
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This wide-ranging compendium traces symbolism to its ancient roots, examining a vast variety of symbolic images.
Author | : Arthur Asa Berger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Nathan Lyons |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2019-02-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0190941286 |
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Modern thought is characterized by a dichotomy of meaningful culture and unmeaning nature. Signs in the Dust uses medieval semiotics to develop a new theory of nature and culture that resists this familiar picture of things. Through readings of Thomas Aquinas, Nicholas of Cusa, and John Poinsot (John of St. Thomas), it offers a semiotic analysis of human culture in both its anthropological breadth as an enterprise of creaturely sign-making, and its theological height as a finite participation in the Trinity, which can be understood as an absolute 'cultural nature'. Signs in the Dust then extends this account of human culture backwards into the natural depth of biological and physical nature. It puts the biosemiotics of its medieval sources, along with Félix Ravaisson's philosophy of habit, into dialogue with the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis that is emerging in contemporary biology, to show how all living things participate in semiosis, so that that a cultural dimension is present through the whole order of nature and the whole of natural history. It also retrieves Aquinas' doctrine of intentions in the medium to show how signification can be attributed in a diminished way to even inanimate nature, with the ontological implication that being as such should be reconceived in semiotic terms. The phenomena of human culture are therefore to be understood not as breaks with a meaningless nature, but instead as heightenings and deepenings of natural movements of meaning that long precede and far exceed us. Against the modern divorce of nature and culture, Signs in the Dust argues that culture is natural and nature is cultural, through and through.
Author | : Farrin Chwalkowski |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 620 |
Release | : 2016-12-14 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1443857289 |
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We are a product of nature. Every single cell of our body is made of, and depends, on nature. Our inner soul is heavily influenced by nature. We feel sad if the sun is not shining for a few days, and feel pleasure when drawn to the wonder of flowers and uplifted by the song of birds. We came from nature; we are part of nature. In short, we are nature. Nature has been an intimate part of the human experience from the earliest times. Different religions and cultures, from all corners of the world, have honoured and worshipped nature in art, ritual and literature in their own unique ways. This book shows how we learn about our own human nature, our own sense of identity and how we fit into the larger scheme of life and spirit when we come to better understand how our human ancestors, through art, symbol and myth, expressed their relationship with the natural world.