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Author | : Frank Jacob |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2020-12-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000330621 |
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Wars create their own dynamics, especially with regard to images and language. The semiotic and semantic codes are redefined, according to the need to create an enemy image, or in reference to the results of a war that are post-event defined as just or reasonable. The semiotic systems of wars are central to the discussion of the contributions within this volume, which highlight the interrelationship of semiotic systems and their constructions during wars in different periods of history.
Author | : Eduardo Neiva |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2011-12-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 311089775X |
Download Communication Games Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Communication Games is a new and radical interpretation of the relationship between culture and communication. It explores the idea that culture and communication studies should be seen predominantly in relation to struggles and conflicts within the social arena. It criticizes the conventional heritage of the social sciences and humanities. Culture and communication are conceived not merely as means of integrating social actors, but as semiotic ways of providing fitness indicators that allow for the resolution of competition between individuals. From the perspective of Peircean semiotics and the Darwinian understanding of life processes, Communication Games redefines culture in terms of Darwin's notion of sexual selection. Moving on from the realization that sexual selection creates individual organisms with conflicting interests, Communication Games emphasizes the contribution of game theory to semiotics and communication studies. The book demonstrates how cooperation and shared conventions eventually emerge, and how conflicts are resolved through the display of costly and inflated signs. It is from these inflated signs and the escalation of excessive messages that cultures gain a certain degree of stability. Communication Games proposes a new way of understanding culture, communication, and semiotic exchange in terms of game theory.
Author | : Annabelle Lukin |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2018-10-09 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9811309965 |
Download War and Its Ideologies Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Ideology is so powerful it makes us believe that war is rational, despite both its brutal means and its devastating ends. The power of ideology comes from its intimate relation to language: ideology recruits all semiotic modalities, but language is its engine-room. Drawing on Halliday’s linguistic theory – in particular, his account of the “semiotic big-bang” - this book explains the latent semiotic machinery of language on which ideology depends. The book illustrates the ideological power of language through a study of perhaps the most significant and consequential of our ideologies: those that enable us to legitimate, celebrate, even venerate war, at the same time that we abhor, denounce and proscribe violence. To do so, it makes use of large multi-register corpora (including the British National Corpus), and the reporting of the 2003 invasion of Iraq by Australian, US, European, and Asian news sources. Combining detailed text analysis with corpus linguistic methods, it provides an empirical analysis showing the astonishing reach of our ideologies of war and their profoundly covert and coercive power.
Author | : Jude Geiger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 |
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Download The Semiotics of War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : David Machin |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2013-10-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 162356896X |
Download The Language of War Monuments Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book analyses war monuments by developing a multimodal social-semiotic approach to understand how they communicate as three-dimensional objects. The book provides a practical tool-kit approach to how critical multimodal social semiotics should be done through visual, textual and material analysis. It ties this material analysis into the social and political contexts of production. Using examples across the 20th and 21st century the book's chapters offer a way of analysing the way that monument designers have used specific semiotic choices in terms of things like iconography, objects, shape, form, angularity, height, materials and surface realisation to place representations of war in public places across Britain. This social-semiotic approach to the study of war monuments serves three innovative purposes. First, it provides a contribution to the work on the ideological representations of war in Media and Cultural Studies and in Critical Discourse Analysis applied specifically to more banal realisations of discourse. Second, it responds to calls by historians for innovative ways to study war commemoration by providing an approach that offers both specific analysis of the objects and attends to matters of design. Thirdly, following in the relatively recent tradition of multimodal analysis, the arguments draw on the ideas of Kress and van Leeuwen (1996, 2001), adapting and extending their theories and models to the analysis of British commemorative war monuments, in order to develop a multimodal framework for the analysis of three dimensional objects.
Author | : Frank Jacob |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783963173035 |
Download War in Film Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Susan Tiefenbrun |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 589 |
Release | : 2010-04-14 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0199749566 |
Download Decoding International Law Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Violations of international law and human rights laws are the plague of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Violence and the flagrant violation of human rights have a naturally dramatic effect that inspires writers, film makers, artists, philosophers, historians, and legal scholars to represent these horrors in their work. In Decoding International Law: Semiotics and the Humanities, Professor Tiefenbrun helps readers understand international law as represented indirectly in the humanities.
Author | : SunHee Kim Gertz |
Publisher | : IAP |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2007-03-01 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1607527146 |
Download Semiotic Rotations Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The title of our volume on interdisciplinary semiotics is situated in a geographical metaphor and points to the possibility of uncovering meanings through shifting perspectives as well as to the possibility of understanding how these various modes of meaning are articulated and framed in particular cultural instances. Regardless of medium, semiotic rotations permit play between the surface and underlying levels of a communication, reveal the relationship between open and closed systems of signification, and modulate shades of meaning caught between the visible and invisible. Readerly play in these sets of apparent oppositions reveals that the less each pairing is held to be a coupling of oppositions and the more they are observed through perspectives gained by semiotic rotations, then the more complex and rich the modes of meaning may become.
Author | : Edna Aphek |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1990-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027278245 |
Download The Semiotics of Fortune-telling Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book presents a semiotic analysis of the linguistic and extralinguistic elements of fortune-telling as part of a larger pragmatic-oriented theory of human communication. The material was collected in Israel, in Hebrew, and parallels are made with other languages and cultures. The analysis is based on dynamic relativism of the multidimensional, transcendental, holistic process of human communication.
Author | : Robert Scholes |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1982-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780300030938 |
Download Semiotics and Interpretation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The book offers . . . a clutch of examples of semiotics usefully and intelligently applied, which Scholes's patient, cheerful tone and his resolutely concrete vocabulary manage to combine into a breezily informative American confection.-Terence Hawkes, Times Literary Supplement