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Semiotic Investigations: Towards an Effective Semiotics Hardback - 1996
by Alec McHoul
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- Title Semiotic Investigations: Towards an Effective Semiotics
- Author Alec McHoul
- Binding Hardback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition New
- Pages 250
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A.
- Date 1996-06-01
- Features Dust Cover
- Bookseller's Inventory # A9780803231917
- ISBN 9780803231917 / 0803231911
- Weight 1.18 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9.33 x 5.83 x 1.05 in (23.70 x 14.81 x 2.67 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Semiotics - Philosophy, Semiotics - Methodology
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95-43854
- Dewey Decimal Code 302.2
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From the rear cover
In Semiotic Investigations, Alec McHoul develops a theory of meaning that he calls "effective semiotics" - a theory that investigates "the ways in which signs have meaning by virtue of their actual uses". McHoul expounds his theory of effective semiotics - of "meaning-as-use" - in a series of provocative chapters on diverse topics. He begins by examining the relations between semiotics and history and between semiotics and specific communities. He elaborates on the nature of these relations by demonstrating the "effective semiotics" of a particular photograph from the 1880s, episodes from the film Singin' in the Rain and the Batman comics, literary works, children's primers, popular accounts of science, and many other objects, artifacts, and experiences. Semiotic Investigations advances its own comprehensive theory of signs while ably examining works by such distinguished philosophers and theorists as Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Derrida, Foucault, Habermas, Lyotard, Kuhn, and others. Yet the book is also down-to-earth and clearly written, with an eye towards a startling range of "ordinary" and "uncommon" experiences. It will be required reading for linguists, philosophers, semioticians, anthropologists, literary theorists, and students of cultural studies.