Bloomsbury Semiotics Volume 3

Semiotics in the Arts and Social Sciences

Jamin Pelkey, Susan Petrilli, Sophia Melanson Ricciardone, Jamin Pelkey, Susan Petrilli, Sophia Melanson Ricciardone

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9781350139367
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781350139374
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Literature

Bloomsbury Semiotics offers a state-of-the-art overview of the entire field of semiotics by revealing its influence on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. With four volumes spanning theory, method and practice across the disciplines, this definitive reference work emphasizes and strengthens common bonds shared across intellectual cultures, and facilitates the discovery and recovery of meaning across fields. It comprises:

Volume 1: History and Semiosis
Volume 2: Semiotics in the Natural and Technical Sciences
Volume 3: Semiotics in the Arts and Social Sciences
Volume 4: Semiotic Movements

Written by leading international experts, the chapters provide comprehensive overviews of the history and status of semiotic inquiry across a diverse range of traditions and disciplines. Together, they highlight key contemporary developments and debates along with ongoing research priorities. Providing the most comprehensive and united overview of the field, Bloomsbury Semiotics enables anyone, from students to seasoned practitioners, to better understand and benefit from semiotic insight and how it relates to their own area of study or research.

Volume 3: Semiotics in the Arts and Social Sciences presents the state-of-the art in semiotic approaches to disciplines ranging from philosophy and anthropology to history and archaeology, from sociology and religious studies to music, dance, rhetoric, literature, and structural linguistics. Each chapter goes casts a vision for future research priorities, unanswered questions, and fresh openings for semiotic participation in these and related fields.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1 Semiotics in Philosophy and Critical Theory
• 2 Semiotics in Anthropology and Ethnography
• 3 Semiotics in History and Archaeology
• 4 Semiotics in Theology and Religious Studies
• 5 Semiotics in Ethics and Caring
• 6 Semiotics in Sociology and Political Science
• 7 Semiotics in Learning and Education
• 8 Semiotics in Picture and Image Studies
• 9 Semiotics in Film and Video Studies
• 10 Semiotics in Music and Musicology
• 11 Semiotics in Performance and Dance
• 12 Semiotics in Rhetoric and Poetics
• 13 Semiotics in Literature and Narratology
• 14 Semiotics in Structural Linguistics
• Index
• Imprint