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Cigarettes and High Heels: The Universe of Signs,ral introduction to semiotics—what it is, what makes it distinct, and what its goals are. The connection of smoking to courtship rituals and the wearing of high heels as part of the romance game provide a concrete introduction to the idea that all human behavior is guided by sign structures and mean

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What Does It Mean?: How Humans Represent the World, from words to bodily postures and smiles. This chapter goes through the main ideas that make up the discipline of semiotics, as autonomous from all other disciplines. It starts with examining the “meaning of meaning,” and given that semiotics is, in a fundamental sense, the science of “meaning,” th

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Tell Me About Yourself: What Is Language?,e analytical tools and many of the same theories. The difference is that semioticians, by and large, seek to understand the connection between language and other meaning-making codes, from the nonverbal to the artistic. The ancient Greek philosophers defined language as ., the faculty that had trans

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Kisses Sweeter Than Wine: Metaphor and the Making of Meaning, our discourse and conversations are guided by metaphorical, and more generally, figurative, cognition. This means that language is not organized fundamentally as a set of literal ideas, but rather as a means of connecting ideas through resemblance and inference in order to blend experiences holisti

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Now, You Tell Me About Yourself: Why Do We Tell Stories?,ly as the semiotics of narratives. This chapter deals with narratological analysis in a general, non-technical way. For the semiotician, the telling of life stories is not simply a way to make conversation or to while away the hours. Stories emerge to make sense of who we are by weaving the various

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What a Beautiful Ring!: The Meaning of Clothes and Objects,hat anthropologists call material culture. This has been a fertile area of investigation by semioticians. From the meanings of dress codes, and fashion shows, to the significance of fads such as Hula Hoops and video games, the semiotic approach focuses on the interconnections between some object to

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Art Is Indistinguishable from Life: The Artistic Nature of the Human Species,le evidence that the human capacity for knowing from within is a powerful force in shaping human meaning systems. This chapter looks at the semiotics of art in all its manifestations, from drawings to music. Art is critical because it is valued as precious and perceived as transcending time. It says

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