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...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-May-2021, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: 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...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Fordham University Press, ISBN-13: 9781531514150)
Shows how art and literature can both describe and instantiate the slow, unredeemed violence of physical deterioration. Mere Materialism challenges us to recognize a neglected, transhistorical aesthetics of loss. Against the...Loe edasi...
Shows how art and literature can both describe and instantiate the slow, unredeemed violence of physical deterioration. Mere Materialism challenges us to recognize a neglected, transhistorical aesthetics of loss. Against the...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
Göran Sonesson, Jordan Zlatev, Sara Lenninger, Todd Oakley
Sari: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC]
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: 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...Loe edasi...
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 Peirce’s philosophical work. This volu...Loe edasi...
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....Loe edasi...
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....Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503646186)
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...Loe edasi...
Sari: Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: 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...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
Sari: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC]
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: 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...Loe edasi...
Sari: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC]
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: 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...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: 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...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: 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...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503636682)
The Historical Poem takes up Georg Lukácss 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...Loe edasi...
This book advances the understanding of the role of faces and face representations, their meanings and interpretations, in physical and digital urban space. It will interest semiotics, visual communication, digital humanities, cultural geography a...Loe edasi...
In a world where culture evolves at an unprecedented pace, Story Systems provides researchers, analysts, and strategists with a groundbreaking methodology for decoding cultural shifts through language. This book introduces a systematic research ap...Loe edasi...
In a world where culture evolves at an unprecedented pace, Story Systems provides researchers, analysts, and strategists with a groundbreaking methodology for decoding cultural shifts through language. In a world where cultu...Loe edasi...
Combining social semiotics with a design-oriented perspective on learning, this book shows how toys and games transform how children learn to understand and act in the world. Drawing on extensive research over more than two decad...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503645554)
We use avatars to play videogames. We use pseudonyms on social media. We use VPNs to mask our identities and activities. In the digital realm, anonymity is everywhere, a persistent option for those who wish to hide, experiment, and deceive. But we a...Loe edasi...
We use avatars to play videogames. We use pseudonyms on social media. We use VPNs to mask our identities and activities. In the digital realm, anonymity is everywhere, a persistent option for those who wish to hide, experiment, and deceive. But we a...Loe edasi...
This volume is the first edited collection that offers various theoretical and analytical perspectives on migration narratives in children’s picturebooks. The chapters presented have benefitted from theories such as multimodal social semiotics, sy...Loe edasi...
How can social critique respond to a catastrophic world? From Emerson to Adorno, a tradition of radical social critique has flourished that utilizes methods which disclose rather than judge the form of life: instead of trying to say what is wrong an...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503645417)
How can social critique respond to a catastrophic world? From Emerson to Adorno, a tradition of radical social critique has flourished that utilizes methods which disclose rather than judge the form of life: instead of trying to say what is wrong an...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1927, The World of Imagery is a study of the use of metaphor, simile, and other forms of literary imagery from the ancient Hebrew to the early twentieth century. Originally published in 1927, The World of Ima...Loe edasi...
In the hierarchy of foods, snacks are deemed trivial-perhaps even juvenile-especially in contrast to meals, which are seen as substantial and necessary. The ubiquity of snacks is a relatively new phenomenon, one that is not universal to all countrie...Loe edasi...
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Part memoir, part cultural criticism, Stock Photo mines the significance of the stock photo in our everyday lives, from...Loe edasi...
By employing a cognitive semiotic theory based on pragmatism and enactivism, this book explores the nature and emergence of early body ornamentation, which has long been at the forefront of the debate on modern human origins.Using a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Feb-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 9781517920517)
A bold, dialectic engagement with Fredric Jameson’s thoughtFredric Jameson (1934–2024) is widely regarded as the most influential literary and cultural theorist of the past fifty years. The culmination of more than three decades of s...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Feb-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 9781517920524)
A bold, dialectic engagement with Fredric Jameson’s thoughtFredric Jameson (1934–2024) is widely regarded as the most influential literary and cultural theorist of the past fifty years. The culmination of more than three decades of s...Loe edasi...
This book is about what happens to comics theory when we privilege the relationship between materiality and the body in the analysis of comics. Focusing on how these factors relate to making, technological reproduction and the experience of readin...Loe edasi...
What is translation? What is a sign? This book answers these questions and gives a critical review of how the West has been theorising translation, in terms of theorising the sign, a ‘unit’ of our communication.From the promotion of servitu...Loe edasi...
Departing from a metaphorical comparison by Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti between the underlying principles of drawing and weaving, this book will show how seemingly abstract motifs in their realization already acquire the potential to...Loe edasi...
This book considers various aspects of the meanings and functions of zodiacal systems, including how they affect belief systems, and how they have evolved over time. It explores the cultural significance of the Zodiac as a semiotic code for interpre...Loe edasi...
Sari: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL]
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Feb-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter Mouton, ISBN-13: 9783110770421)
Contemporary sociolinguistic theorizing is concerned with the study of social solidarity in differential contexts of power, so it must engage with protesting discourses and practices. In two volumes, Sociolinguistics of Protesting address...Loe edasi...
Sari: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL]
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Feb-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter Mouton, ISBN-13: 9783110770414)
Contemporary sociolinguistic theorizing is concerned with the study of social solidarity in differential contexts of power, so it must engage with protesting discourses and practices. In two volumes, Sociolinguistics of Protesting address...Loe edasi...
This innovative collection offers a holistic portrait of the multimodal communication potential of images from the Upper Paleolithic through to today, showcasing image-based creativity throughout the centuries.The volume seeks to extend the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jan-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Northwestern University Press, ISBN-13: 9780810149380)
The One and the Others: Metaphysics, Poetry, and the Antinomies of Plato’s Parmenides shows how modern philosophers and poets have developed the perplexing antinomies of Platos Parmenides. An original account of Western me...Loe edasi...
This book tells the story of the landmark event in modern logic whereby Alfred Tarski became the man who defined truth. Alfred Tarskis classic monograph on truth became known internationally in 1935, when he presented its ideas in German at an inter...Loe edasi...
This book is an explanation of Deleuzes cinema books that fleshes out a structuralist “method” applicable to film and media today.Gilles Deleuzes Structuralist Cinema-World outlines a way of analyzing the meaning we interpr...Loe edasi...
