Bloomsbury Semiotics

Volumes 1-4

Jamin Pelkey editor

Format:Set / collection

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:3rd Nov '22

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A comprehensive reference work covering the entire field of semiotics, spanning theory, method and practice across numerous traditions, disciplines and movements.

Bloomsbury Semiotics offers a state-of-the-art overview of the entire field of semiotics from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. With four volumes spanning theory, method and practice across the disciplines, this definitive reference work 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

Uniting fragmented disciplines under the framework of semiotic theory, this set emphasizes and strengthens common bonds shared across intellectual cultures, and facilitates the discovery and recovery of meaning across fields. Providing comprehensive overviews of the history and status of semiotic inquiry across a diverse range of traditions and disciplines, chapters are written by leading international experts. Together, they highlight key contemporary developments and debates before casting a vision for future research priorities, identifying unanswered questions and fresh openings for participation.

Providing the most comprehensive and united overview of the entire field for semioticians, 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.

The set is particularly notable for its global representation and its interdisciplinary approach. It will prove indispensable not just for students of semiotics per se but also for researchers in countless other disciplines engaged in examining perception, language, and representation, i.e., the nature of communication. This set will be welcome by semioticians and nonsemioticians alike for its breadth of semiotic insight on human knowledge. Summing Up: Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers. * Choice *
This is a much-needed reference that promises to provide a very solid general and historical introduction to a complex way of thinking, but also introduces a very wide range of interdisciplinary approaches to the field. -- Elliot Gaines, Wright State University, USA
This is a state-of-the-art survey of semiotic inquiry. Recommended for researchers in the field. -- Jill Cox-Cordova * Library Journal *
Volume 2: Semiotics in the Natural and Technical Sciences delivers the contemporary state of the art, craft, and science of semiotic applications in math and logic, in biology and cognitive sciences, and in professional and technical fields from architecture to medicine and beyond, with expert contributions achieving prescient depth of coverage and cutting-edge comprehensive bibliographic documentation. -- Myrdene Anderson, Purdue College of Liberal Arts, USA
Volume 3: Semiotics in the Arts and Social Sciences testifies to the power of semiotics to innovate through the creation of new research paths, and to renovate by revisiting older paths and reshaping them through fundamental changes of perspectives. The result is an inspiring multidirectional and multidimensional programmatic chart that redraws boundaries and suggests uncharted territories in need of careful signage. -- André De Tienne, Indiana University, USA
Peircean Semiotics offers some of the most interesting and insightful perspectives on the nature of communication as a crucial force in the universe, ranging from human language to physics. In Volume 4: Semiotic Movements Jamin Pelkey and Paul Cobley have brought together some of the leading semioticians from around the world on an exciting range of topics. This is an important volume that all readers, whether new to semiotics or long-term semioticians, will enjoy and learn a great deal from. I highly recommend it. -- Daniel L. Everett, Bentley University, USA

ISBN: 9781350139442

Dimensions: 254mm x 178mm x 96mm

Weight: 3000g