Analyzing Cultures: An Introduction and HandbookDesigned for classroom use in a number of disciplines, this comprehensive introduction to cultural semiotics is also an easy-to-use reference for those who would like a better understanding of the topic. No other text provides this kind of practical framework for the classroom study of semiotics. Each of the 12 chapters is clearly written and self-contained. |
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... knowledge - making . By the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries philosophers like Thomas Hobbes ( 1588-1679 ) , René Descartes ( 1596–1650 ) , Benedict Spinoza ( 1632–1677 ) , Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz ( 1646–1716 ) , and David Hume ...
... knowledge - making . By the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries philosophers like Thomas Hobbes ( 1588-1679 ) , René Descartes ( 1596–1650 ) , Benedict Spinoza ( 1632–1677 ) , Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz ( 1646–1716 ) , and David Hume ...
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... knowledge that speakers of a language share about what is acceptable in that language , and pa- role ( " word " ) , the actual use of a language in speech . Saussure made an analogy to the game of chess to clarify the crucial difference ...
... knowledge that speakers of a language share about what is acceptable in that language , and pa- role ( " word " ) , the actual use of a language in speech . Saussure made an analogy to the game of chess to clarify the crucial difference ...
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... knowledge linguistically . Writers , scientists , educators , law - makers , etc. would have to come together to literally " rewrite " knowledge . In oral cultures , too , language is the primary means through which traditions , skills ...
... knowledge linguistically . Writers , scientists , educators , law - makers , etc. would have to come together to literally " rewrite " knowledge . In oral cultures , too , language is the primary means through which traditions , skills ...
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