The more human knowledge increases, the more signs grow and, with this expansion, the more the boundaries of the science that studies signs also grows. In Semiotics Unbounded, Susan Petrilli and Augusto Ponzio explain the explosion of the sign network in the era of global communication and discuss the important theoretical responses offered by semiotics. Providing a much-needed introductory guide to the subject, Petrilli and Ponzio explore the ever-growing frontiers of semiotics through the thought of prominent sign scholars such as Charles Peirce, Victoria Welby, Mikhail Bakhtin, Charles Morris, and Thomas Sebeok. 
In an era of global communication, a global approach is necessary, and what may seem to be the whole, is only a part – a view being at once globalizing and open. Each and every sign is never self-sufficient and closed but exists always in a relation of otherness. This is true of the signs forming animals and human beings, individuals and communities, and involves the implication of all living beings in the life of all others. Semiotics Unbounded offers a new and original survey of the science of signs, evaluating it in relation to the problems of our time, not only of a scientific order, but also the problems concerning everyday social life.

Semiotics Unbounded: Interpretive Routes through the Open Network of Signs (Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication)

Literature & Fiction

Petrilli, Susan

Ponzio, Augusto

History & Criticism

University of Toronto Press

Thomas Sebeok is the scholar who has contributed most to establishing semiotics as an interdisciplinary field. In a pioneering academic manoeuvre, he has broadened the perspectives of sign study to coincide with the study of the evolution of life. Now, at the beginning of the new millennium, semiotics not only addresses human verbal communication but embraces the study of all sign activity. 
Sebeok places himself in the 'major tradition' of semiotics represented by John Locke, C.S. Peirce and the ancient physicians Hippocrates and Galen. Semiotics is for him the 'sign science' that converges with the 'life sciences'. Indeed, it is Sebeok's central thesis that sign activity is the very definition of life in the universe. 
What are the consequences of Sebeok's vision for the arts, humanities and science? What does it say for ethics? And why does the concept of 'global semiotics' entail a fundamental reorientation of humans to the environment in which they live? "Thomas Sebeok and the Signs of Life" offers answers to these questions and presents a vision of the human being as a sign in a universe of signs.

Thomas Sebeok and the Signs of Life

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Icon,Totem Books

Philosophy Of Language Art Ans Answerabi (Language, Media, & Education Studies)

Legas Publishing

La coda dell'occhio: LETTURE DEL LINGUAGGIO LETTERARIO SENZA CONFINI NAZIONALI (Italian Edition)

ARACNE EDITRICE

Linguistica generale, scrittura letteraria e traduzione (Studi sul linguaggio, sulla comunicazione esull'apprendimento, 13)

Guerra Edizioni

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