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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... pattern : [ adult male ] : [ adult female ] : [ nonadult ] : [ adult male ] : [ adult female ] : [ nonadult ] . It is at the ... patterns among ten digits . Concepts The foregoing discussion raises the question of what a concept is . In ...
... pattern : [ adult male ] : [ adult female ] : [ nonadult ] : [ adult male ] : [ adult female ] : [ nonadult ] . It is at the ... patterns among ten digits . Concepts The foregoing discussion raises the question of what a concept is . In ...
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... patterns ( resulting in icons and indexes respectively ) , but also to pattern in itself . The view of some semioti- cians - and it is ours as well - is that iconicity , indexicality , and sym- bolicity are interconnected in ...
... patterns ( resulting in icons and indexes respectively ) , but also to pattern in itself . The view of some semioti- cians - and it is ours as well - is that iconicity , indexicality , and sym- bolicity are interconnected in ...
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... patterns , in emphatic voice modula- tions , etc.-e.g. " He's sooooo cute ! " " She's faaaaar out ! " " That's amaaaazing ! " etc. Utterances such as " We called her up ( ? ) ( intonation like a question ) ... but she wasn't there ...
... patterns , in emphatic voice modula- tions , etc.-e.g. " He's sooooo cute ! " " She's faaaaar out ! " " That's amaaaazing ! " etc. Utterances such as " We called her up ( ? ) ( intonation like a question ) ... but she wasn't there ...
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