Peircean introduction to visual rhetoric and a powerful system of semiotics quite distinct from the Saussurean structuralist tradition. Series: Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: GTE. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 164 x 14. Weight in Grams: 408. . 2013. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Introduction to Peircean Visual Semiotics
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
Publication Date: 2013
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1441109404
ISBN 13: 9781441109408
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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Contemporary culture is as much visual as literary. This book explores an approach to the communicative power of the pictorial and multimodal documents that make up this visual culture, using Peircean semiotics. It develops the enormous theoretical potential of Peirce's theory of signs of signs (semiotics) and the persuasive strategies in which they are employed (visual rhetoric) in a variety of documents. Unlike presentations of semiotics that take the written word as the reference value, this book examines this particular rhetoric using pictorial signs as its prime examples. The visual is not treated as the 'poor relation' to the (written) word. It is therefore possible to isolate more clearly the specific constituent properties of word and image, taking these as the basic material of a wide range of cultural artefacts. It looks at comic strips, conventional photographs, photographic allegory, pictorial metaphor, advertising campaigns and the huge semiotic range exhibited by the category of the 'poster'. This is essential reading for all students of semiotics, introductory and advanced.

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Tony Jappy is professeur honoraire of English Linguistics and Semiotics at the University of Perpignan-Via Domitia, France.

Gregory Paschalidis is Professor of Cultural Studies at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

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