Providing an in-depth discussion of emoji use in a global context, this volume presents the use of emoji as a hugely important facet of computer-mediated communication, leading author Jieun Kiaer to coin the term emoji speak.Exploring wh...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-May-2021, Paperback / softback, Publisher: University of Tartu Press, ISBN-13: 9789949035540)
Many of the basics of the neuroscience of perception, memory, plasticity, attention, decisions, choices, and control have achieved consensus. Accordingly it is now possible to use this research to investigate the implications for cognition and behavi...More info...
This book features a series of essays by six authors, four of which now classics, in the field of philosophy of language and semiotics, and significantly edited and added to by the volume editor. Collectively, the book provides a powerful sign the...More info...
Gφran Sonesson, Jordan Zlatev, Sara Lenninger, Todd Oakley
Series: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC]
(Pub. Date: 29-May-2026, Hardback, Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton, ISBN-13: 9783110699494)
Summarizing his life-long engagement with the field of semiotics and extending this with cognitive science and phenomenology into the transdisciplinary science of cognitive semiotics, the author asks key questions like: What is meaning in general an...More info...
This volume explores the later life and thought of Charles S. Peirce, a fifteen-year period that spans from 1900 until his death in 1914. It is the first volume devoted to this period of Peirces philosophical work. This volu...More info...
This collection highlights a range of perspectives on the emerging body of research on evolutionary pragmatics, expanding the borders of language evolution research and indicating exciting new directions for the future of the field....More info...
This collection brings together perspectives on the interplay of communication, dialogue and responsibility, exploring communicative acts of disruption towards a social environment attuned to short-sighted individualism....More info...
Common sense is supposed to be so obvious it can go without saying. And yet, it has been hard to pin down, partly because its contents are vague and inconsistent, and partly because it has always been difficult to say what kind of sense common sen...More info...
Series: Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory
(Pub. Date: 12-May-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Bucknell University Press,U.S., ISBN-13: 9781684485918)
Groundless Noir: Ontology and Latin American Crime Fiction explores the dominant noir moods of precarity and uncertainty as ways of making a home within an otherwise unstable world. Larson argues that Latin American noir discloses a desire to...More info...
Groundless Noir: Ontology and Latin American Crime Fiction explores the dominant noir moods of precarity and uncertainty as ways of making a home within an otherwise unstable world. Larson argues that Latin American noir discloses a desire to...More info...
This book offers a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the Chinese animation industry, tracing its evolution from the magic lanterns of the 19th century to the cutting-edge AI-powered productions of today. It provides readers with an unparallel...More info...
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Since its invention more than 150 years ago, the microphone transformed the world in an instant. Yet its evolution and integration in...More info...
Series: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC]
(Pub. Date: 29-Apr-2026, Hardback, Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton, ISBN-13: 9783110762426)
This book addresses disciplinary gaps between work in semiotics and multimodality (fields that have typically centered on the nature of signs/modes or on semiotic artifacts) and situated observational research (traditions that have focused on part...More info...
Series: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC]
(Pub. Date: 29-Apr-2026, Hardback, Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton, ISBN-13: 9783111636436)
The Semiotic Turn is a milestone in semiotics. Written by Paolo Fabbri (1939-2020) at the end of the millennium, it orients semioticians in their purpose to critically analyze different cultural and social worlds. Given the influence of Fabbris tho...More info...
Ballot chronicles the history of ballots used in American elections, their psychological, cultural, and political impact, and the post-2020 bills, laws, and policies that suppress the vote. Object Lessons is a series of short, beaut...More info...
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.From Revlon to Glossier, from Marilyn to Gaga, lipstick is as shape-shifting and unwieldy as femininity itself. Who w...More info...
(Pub. Date: 13-Apr-2026, Hardback, Publisher: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111325385)
How can the emergence of religion be understood consistently as a genuinely social process without resorting to phenomenological, intellectual-historical, biological, or cognitive-scientific approaches? To answer this question, the book ref...More info...
This monograph intertwines the two themes of historiography and evolutionary biology and shows that both activities are analogous in their practices; they are spinning stories about the past and thus constructing the world to suit the present of a g...More info...
(Pub. Date: 31-Mar-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Northwestern University Press, ISBN-13: 9780810148635)
Bakhtins Adventure: An Essay on Life without Meaning offers a bold rereading of Mikhail Bakhtins groundbreaking philosophy and an answer to how we can sustain an ethical relation to other people when we only ever have access to a narrow image of t...More info...
(Pub. Date: 31-Mar-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503636682)
The Historical Poem takes up Georg Lukαcss classic account of the historical novel to tell the forgotten story of its precursors. For eighteenth-century and Romantic thinkers, these were poems from distant times and placesfrom ancient and medieval...More info...
