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SEMIOTICS UNBOUNDED      

InterpretIve routes through the

open network of sIgns

 Susan Petrilli & Augusto Ponzio

  

The more human knowledge increases, the more signs grow and, with this expansion, the more the boundaries of the science that studies signs also grows. In Semiotics Unbounded, Susan Petrilli and Augusto Ponzio explain the explosion of the sign network in the era of global communication and discuss the important theoretical responses offered by semiotics. Providing a much-needed introductory guide to the subject, Petrilli and Ponzio explore the ever-growing frontiers of semiotics through the thought of prominent sign scholars such as Charles Peirce, Victoria Welby, Mikhail Bakhtin, Charles Morris, and Thomas Sebeok.

In an era of global communication, a global approach is necessary, and what may seem to be the whole, is only a part – a view being at once globalizing and open. Each and every sign is never self-sufficient and closed but exists always in a relation of otherness. This is true of the signs forming animals and human beings,individuals and communities, and involves the implication of all living beings in the life of all others. Semiotics Unbounded offers a new and original survey of the science of signs, evaluating it in relation to the problems of our time, not only of a scientific order, but also the problems concerning everyday social life.

 Susan Petrilli is an associate professor in the Department of Linguistic Practices and Text Analysis at Università degli Studi di Bari.

 Augusto Ponzio is the head of the Department of Linguistic Practices and Text Analysis at Università degli Studi di Bari.

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Contents/Sommaire     

 

Introduction

 

Bernard Lamizet

La sémiotique instante : introduction á la sémiotique politique 1

 

Sémiotique des identités politiques

 

Christine Servais

Appartenance politique et appropriation identitaire : la question de l’esthétique 55

 

Susan Petrilli

Identity and difference in politics among nations: A semiotic approach 75

 

Adrian Gimate-Welsh

National representations: Representation of interests? The law of indigenous rights. An intersection point of view 93

 

Ágnes Kapitány and Ga´bor Kapitány

Symbols and communication of values in the accession to the EU (Hungary) 111

 

Andreas Pribersky

Europe as a symbol in political image constructions 143

 

Sémiotique des acteurs politiques

 

Hugues Constantin De Chanay

Pouvoir des images d’avant le pouvoir : de l’éthos dans les portraits des candidats a` l’e´lection présidentielle 2002 en France 151

 

Julia Ponzio

The political and the Feminine : Reflections on Levinas’ philosophical language 179

 

Espaces de la sémiotique politique

 

Arnaud Mercier

Affirmation du pouvoir et se´miotique du marquage territorial 195

 

Franck Saint-Girons

Les friches urbaines : des évolutions sémiotiques á la prospective urbaine 209

 

Joseph Salamon

Le projet urbain et le paradoxe de la concertation : vers une approche sémiotique de l’exemple Beyrouthin 229

 

Sémiotique des thémes et des champs du politique

 

Olivier Arifon

Diplomatie et création de sens 241

 

Lothar M. Mikulla

Méthode d’e´valuation des signaux politiques dans les presses nationales 251

 

Augusto Ponzio

Political ideology and the language of the European constitution 261

 

Beatrice Turpin

Pour une sémiotique du politique : schémes mythiques du national-populisme 285

 

Fabienne Pierre

Le développement durable : suite et fin(s) de l’idée de Progrés? 305

 

Dana Popescu

Guerre économique et identité 319

 

Toni Ramoneda

Les contours d’une Europe cosmopolite : une sémiotique politique de la globalisation 329

 

Rituels et pratiques politiques symboliques

 

Sarah Goutagny

Les « ostensignes » ou l’espace public impossible 343