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Of Cigarettes, High Heels, and Other Interesting Things
An Introduction to Semiotics
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About this book
Why do people routinely risk their health by smoking cigarettes? Why do some females make walking a struggle by donning high heels? In a fully updated edition, the author attempts to answer such questions by explaining the discipline that endeavors to understand the human meaning quest: semiotics.
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Yes, you can access Of Cigarettes, High Heels, and Other Interesting Things by Marcel Danesi in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Linguistics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface to the Second Edition
- 1 Cigarettes and High Heels The Universe of Signs
- 2 What Does It Mean? How Humans Represent the World
- 3 Makeup Why Do We Put It On?
- 4 Tell Me about Yourself What Is Language?
- 5 Kisses Sweeter than Wine Metaphor and the Making of Meaning
- 6 Now, You Tell Me about Yourself Why Do We Tell Stories?
- 7 At Arm’s Length The Meanings of Spaces
- 8 What a Beautiful Ring! The Meaning of Clothes and Objects
- 9 Art Is Indistinguishable from Life The Artistic Nature of the Human Species
- 10 There’s More to Perfume than Smell Advertising, Pop Culture, Television, and Online Culture
- Notes
- Index