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

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1593116101 ISBN 13: 9781593116101

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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Semiotic Rotations 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 und... Full description

About the Author

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1593116101
• ISBN 13: 9781593116101
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 232
• Editor: Gertz SunHee Kim, Valsiner Jaan, Breaux Jean-Paul