Social Semiotics as Praxis: Text, Social Meaning Making,and Nabokov's Ada
Language: English
Published by University of Minnesota Press, US 1983, 1991
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- Title
- Social Semiotics as Praxis: Text, Social Meaning Making,and Nabokov's Ada
- Author
- Paul J. Thibault
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press, US 1983
- Publication year
- 1991
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
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- 0816618666
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- 9780816618668
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In Social Semiotics as Praxis, Paul J. Thibault rescues semiotics from terminal formalism by recognizing that the object of a semiotic inquiry is necessarily the way in which human beings, individually and collectively, make sense of their lives. Focusing on Vladimir Nabokov’s Ada, he develops a conception of social semiotics that is a form of both social action and political praxis.
Thibault’s principal intellectual sources are, among others, Bakhtin, Volosinov, Derrida, Foucault, Gramsci, Habermas, and Halliday. Thibault combines the work of Halliday in particular with is own theories of semiotics to explore the dynamics of quoting and reporting speech and to develop a critique of the categories of “self” and “representation.” Thibault accounts for the meaningful relationships constructed among texts and elaborates on the two main themes of relational levels in texts and the dynamics of contextualization to give voice to a unifying discourse for talking about social meaning making."Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author
Paul J. Thibault is Professore a contratto at the Facolta di Scienze dell’Educazione of the University of Verona. He has held teaching positions in linguistics, semiotics, and literary theory at Murdoch University and the University of Sydney and in English at the University of Bologna.
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