Semiotic Rotations: Modes of Meanings in Cultural Worlds (Advances in Cultural Psychology: Constructing Human Development) - Softcover

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9781593116095: Semiotic Rotations: Modes of Meanings in Cultural Worlds (Advances in Cultural Psychology: Constructing Human Development)
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ISBN 10: 1593116098 ISBN 13: 9781593116095
Publisher: Information Age Publishing, 2007

Synopsis

The title of our volume on interdisciplinary semiotics is situated in a geographical metaphor and points to the possibility of uncovering meanings through shifting perspectives as well as to the possibility of understanding how these various modes of meaning are articulated and framed in particular cultural instances. Regardless of medium, semiotic rotations permit play between the surface and underlying levels of a communication, reveal the relationship between open and closed systems of signification, and modulate shades of meaning caught between the visible and invisible. Readerly play in these sets of apparent oppositions reveals that the less each pairing is held to be a coupling of oppositions and the more they are observed through perspectives gained by semiotic rotations, then the more complex and rich the modes of meaning may become.

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Synopsis

The title of our volume on interdisciplinary semiotics is situated in a geographical metaphor and points to the possibility of uncovering meanings through shifting perspectives as well as to the possibility of understanding how these various modes of meaning are articulated and framed in particular cultural instances. Regardless of medium, semiotic rotations permit play between the surface and underlying levels of a communication, reveal the relationship between open and closed systems of signification, and modulate shades of meaning caught between the visible and invisible. Readerly play in these sets of apparent oppositions reveals that the less each pairing is held to be a coupling of oppositions and the more they are observed through perspectives gained by semiotic rotations, then the more complex and rich the modes of meaning may become.

About the Author

SunHee Kim Gertz is Senior Lecturer in Literature at the University of Essex.

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Publisher
Information Age Publishing
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1593116098
ISBN 13 
9781593116095
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
232
Editor
Kim Gertz SunHee, Valsiner Jaan, Breaux Jean-Paul

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