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Collocational semiosis in the academic discourse of the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA): The case of AFRICA
In: Semiotica 2020, Issue 235
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- 185-227
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2017-0103
About the Authors
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 3/4
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- 445-450
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About the Authors
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 1/2
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- 131-133
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Beyond the “Tragedy of Culture”: In-between Epistemology and Communication
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 3/4
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- 141-180
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Cassirer as Revolutionary: Semiotics as Embodied Worldview: Appreciating the Other in Ourselves
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 3/4
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- 233-332
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Cassirer on Communicology: The Symbolic Forms of Language, Art, Myth, and Religion in Cultural Semiotics
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 3/4
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- 135-140
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Cassirer’s “Violent Inner Tensions of Culture”: A Cultural Phenomenology of Ethics, Freedom and the Mythology of Peace
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 3/4
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- 373-397
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Cassirer’s Symbolic Forms in Application: New Symbolization of New Thought in the Language of Online Communication
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 3/4
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- 427-444
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Epistemological and Symbolic Aspects of Sociological Thinking
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 3/4
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- 333-356
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Ernst Cassirer’s Theory and Application of Communicology: From Husserl via Bühler to Jakobson
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 3/4
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- 181-231
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Help! Is There a Semiotician on the Plane?
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 1/2
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- 113-130
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Humanities in the Digital World / Or Digital in the Humanities?
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 1/2
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- 69-82
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Introduction—A Manifesto For “New Humanities”
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 1/2
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- 1-25
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Musical Performance As an Intermedial Affair (A Case of a Pianist)
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 1/2
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- 83-98
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Numanities and Their Role in the Twenty-First Century: Three Questions Towards a New Era
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 1/2
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- 49-68
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Our Responsibility to Future Generations in the Context of Ecological Crisis: Perspectives and Future Challenges
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 1/2
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- 99-112
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Paulo Freire and Ernst Cassirer: Mythic and Superstitious Consciousness in Contemporary Academic Culture
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 3/4
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- 357-372
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Questionable Foundations and Quality in the Humanities
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 1/2
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- 27-48
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Shelter on the Mountain of God: Ernst Cassirer and the Religious Institution of Empire
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 3/4
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- 399-425
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A History of the History of Cybernetics: An Agenda for an Ever-changing Present
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 1: 50th Anniversary Retrospective of the ASC
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- 42
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A Merger of Two Strategic (Ir)reconcilables, 1962-1980
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 1: 50th Anniversary Retrospective of the ASC
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- 10
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ASC 1999 to 2001: A Personal Account
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 1: 50th Anniversary Retrospective of the ASC
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- 59
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Dancing with Cybernetics - on Bridges in the Wind
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 1: 50th Anniversary Retrospective of the ASC
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- 50
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Foreword: 50th Anniversary Retrospective of the ASC
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 1: 50th Anniversary Retrospective of the ASC
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- 5
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In Ranulph’s Terms
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 1: 50th Anniversary Retrospective of the ASC
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- 87
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Living in Cybernetics—Making It Personal
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 1: 50th Anniversary Retrospective of the ASC
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- 98
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Recollections of My Years as ASC President: 2002-2004
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 1: 50th Anniversary Retrospective of the ASC
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- 73
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Reflections on Creating a Reality: The American Society for Cybernetics in the 1980s
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 1: 50th Anniversary Retrospective of the ASC
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- 28
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Remembrance of Things Past
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 1: 50th Anniversary Retrospective of the ASC
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- 78
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Reviving the American Society for Cybernetics
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 1: 50th Anniversary Retrospective of the ASC
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- 19
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Virtual Logic—Finite Language and the Imagination of Infinity
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 1: 50th Anniversary Retrospective of the ASC
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- 103
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A History of Psycholinguistics
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Other title information: The Pre-Chomskyan Era
Annotation: How do we manage to speak and understand language? How do children acquire these skills and how does the brain support them? These psycholinguistic issues have been studied for more than two centuries. Though many Psycholinguists tend to consider their history as beginning with the Chomskyan "cognitive revolution" of the late 1950s/1960s, the history of empirical psycholinguistics actually goes back to the end of the 18th century. This is the first book to comprehensively treat this "pre-Chomskyan" history. It tells the fascinating history of the doctors, pedagogues, linguists and psychologists who created this discipline, looking at how they made their important discoveries about the language regions in the brain, about the high-speed accessing of words in speaking and listening, on the child's invention of syntax, on the disruption of language in aphasic patients and so much more. The book is both a history of ideas as well of the men and women whose intelligence, brilliant insights, fads, fallacies, cooperations, and rivalries created this discipline. Psycholinguistics has four historical roots, which, by the end of the 19th century, had merged. By then, the discipline, usually called the psychology of language, was established. The first root was comparative linguistics, which raised the issue of the psychological origins of language. The second root was the study of language in the brain, with Franz Gall as the pioneer and the Broca and Wernicke discoveries as major landmarks. The third root was the diary approach to child development, which emerged from Rousseau's Émile. The fourth root was the experimental laboratory approach to speech and language processing, which originated from Franciscus Donders' mental chronometry. Wilhelm Wundt unified these four approaches in his monumental Die Sprache of 1900. These four perspectives of psycholinguistics continued into the 20th century but in quite divergent frameworks. There was German consciousness and thought psychology, Swiss/French and Prague/Viennese structuralism, Russian and American behaviorism, and almost aggressive holism in aphasiology. As well as reviewing all these perspectives, the book looks at the deep disruption of the field during the Third Reich and its optimistic, multidisciplinary re-emergence during the 1950s with the mathematical theory of communication as a major impetus. A tour de force from one of the seminal figures in the field, this book will be essential reading for all linguists, psycholinguists, neuroscientists, and psychologists with an interest in language.
Identifier: 9780199653669
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Are You Stupid?
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Other title information: A Second Revolution Might Save America From Herself
Annotation: In the most dynamic and prosperous country on Earth-the USA-stupidity overshadows the intellectual and technical accomplishments that other nations envy. If Americans continue to delude themselves about their country, the USA will end up like the USSR: imploding from within. This work analyzes the systemic aspects of America's current condition: across-the-board-dumbing down through media and in education; growing dependence on and demand for entitlements; corruption in the private and political domains; chronic cronyism; the opportunistic engineering of reality. Consequently, individual and collective stupidity not only leads to crises, it renders the USA impotent in dealing with the challenges of the fast dynamics characteristic of our time of post-industrial capitalism oriented towards consumption. The causes for this state of stupidity are examined: the people's willful ignorance of the nation's true history and development; an economic system that does not foster a sense of citizenry; cultivated mediocrity in education and entertainment; corruption of justice; rampant consumerism; a state of prosperity that lulls the people into complacency. Taking the rewards of change for granted, Americans no longer understand what change entails. Gazing into the rear-view mirror of history in search of answers, they forget that the USA was founded in a world more similar to the 1st century than the 21st. Americans will have to start fighting their own stupidity instead of further exhausting the country's (and the world's) resources in wars and entitlement measures. America has to "reset" herself, within an authentic democratic process, on a foundation appropriate to the integrated world of the global information age.
Identifier: 9781490525655
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Lotman’s tradition: Semiotics of culture from a Latin American perspective
In: Sign System Studies 2013, Volume 41, Issue 4
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- 528-532
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2013.41.4.08
Russian Formalist Criticism
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Other title information: Four essays
Annotation: College English Russian formalists emerged from the Russian Revolution with ideas about the independence of literature. They enjoyed that independence until Stalin shut them down. By then they had produced essays that remain among the best defenses ever written for both literature and its theory. Included here are four essays representing key points in the formalists' short history. Victor Scklovsky's pathbreaking "Art as Technique" (1917) vindicates disorder in literary style. His 1921 essay on Tristram Shandy makes that eccentric novel the centerpiece for a theory of narrative. A section from Tomashevsky's "Thematics" (1925) inventories the elements of stories. In "The Theory of the 'Formal Method'" (1927) Boris Eichenbaum defends Russian formalism from many attacks. An able champion, he describes formalism's evolution, notes its major workers and works, clears away decayed axioms, and rescues literature from "primitive historicism" and other dangers. These essays set a course for literary studies that led to Prague structuralism, French semiotics, and postmodern poetics. Russian Formalist Criticism has been honored as a Choice Outstanding Academic Book of the Year by the American Library Association.
Identifier: 9780803254602
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Specialization, semiosis, semiotics: the 33rd annual meeting of the Semiotic Society of America
In: Sign System Studies 2008, Volume 36, Issue 2
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- 515-520
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2008.36.2.12
Susan Petrilli named seventh Thomas A. Sebeok Fellow of the Semiotic Society of America
In: Sign System Studies 2008, Volume 36, Issue 2
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- 522-526
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2008.36.2.13
Varietas Et Concordia
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- Essays in Honour of Pekka Pesonen
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Annotation: Slavica Helsingiensia is published by the Department of Slavonic and Baltic Languages and Literatures at Helsinki University. The series was founded in 1983, and 31 volumes have appeared so far.... The volume is dedicated to Professor Pekka Pesonen on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. It includes 38 articles, written by Professor Pesonen’s friends and colleagues – Finnish, Estonian, Russian and American scholars and also representatives of Professor Pesonen’s Finnish School. The topics covered by the articles range from general and theoretical questions concerning mainly Russian literature, culture and semiotics to specific and detailed analyses of Russian literary his-tory. The thematic variety (varietas) reflects Professor Pesonen’s keen interest in the study of literature and culture, the semiotics of Russian cultural history and the analysis of Texts (literary and cultural) within their social contexts. But his interests never have been bounded only by the pure scientific goals and Pekka Pesonen is widely known as a translator, literary critic, great ad-mirer of Russian culture and a part of it himself. The unity and agreement (concordia) of these different approaches is to be found in а search for understanding, – understanding literature, un-derstanding the specifics of Russian culture. Ultimately, it is а quest for understanding the emer-gence and the narration of Texts in history.
Identifier: 9789521038310
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Floyd Merrell named sixth Thomas A. Sebeok Fellow of the Semiotic Society of America
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 2
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- 477-480
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.2.11
Pragmatism and the forms of sense
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Other title information: language, perception, technics
Annotation: Making sense of the world around us is a process involving both semiotic and material mediation—the use of signs and sign systems (preeminently language) and various kinds of tools (technics). As we use them, we experience them subjectively as extensions of our bodily selves and objectively as instruments for accessing the world with which we interact. Emphasizing this bipolar nature of language and technics, understood as intertwined "forms of sense," Robert Innis studies the multiple ways in which they are rooted in and transform human perceptual structures in both their individual and social dimensions. The book foregrounds and is organized around the notion of "semiotic embodiment." Language and technics are viewed as "probes" upon which we rely, in which we are embodied, and that themselves embody and structure our primary modes of encountering the world. While making an important substantive contribution to present debates about the "biasing" of perception by language and technics, Innis also seeks to provide a methodological model of how complementary analytical resources from American pragmatist and various European traditions can be deployed fruitfully in the pursuit of new insights into the phenomenon of meaning-making.
Identifier: 027102223X
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A case study in the pragmatics of American theatrical programs
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 215-238
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.118.3-4.215
“Glory of Glories... She Wears a Hat”: Dress, the immigrant and social equality in America
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 1
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- 351-354
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African-American aesthetic of dress: Subcultural meaning and significance
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 1
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- 307-310
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American “Comics”: A semiolinguistic analysis
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 1
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- 283-284
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Infinite Jest
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Annotation: A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America. Set in an addicts’ halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human – and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do.
Identifier: 9780349121086
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Waco Wackos! The emergence of American social consciousness in the jokes surrounding the events at Waco, Texas
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 1
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- 285-286
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Giambattista Vico and Anglo-American Science
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Other title information: Philosophy and Writing
Annotation: This collection of essays focuses of Vichian framework and its use in the context of Anglo-American scientific perspective in literature, cognitive sciences, linguistics and others.
Identifier: 3110136651
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Ecstatic Naturalism
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- Signs of the world
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Annotation: Semiotic theory, which has restricted its focus largely to human forms of signification, is transformed by Robert S. Corrington into a semiotics of nature itself. Corrington situates the divide between "nature naturing" and "nature natured" within the context of classical American pragmaticism and postmodern psychoanalysis. At the heart of this new metaphysics is an insistence that all signs participate in larger orders of meaning that are natural and religious. Meanings embodied in nature point beyond nature to the mystery inherent in positioned codes and signs
Identifier: 0253314410
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Signs of Life in the USA
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- Readings On Popular Culture For Writers
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Annotation: The transformation from a text-centred to an image-centred culture presents a certain challenge to writing teachers. How can such a textually based enterprise as writing instruction respond to a video-driven world? How are reading and writing related to seeing and hearing? Can the habits of critical thinking that are so central to the analytical tasks of academic writing be adapted to McLuhan's Brave New World? We have written Signs of Life in the U.S.A. because we believe not only that such bridges can be built but that building them represents our best hope for training a new generation of students in critical thinking and writing. Thus, while the goal of our text remains the traditional one of helping students become strong writers of argument and analysis, our method departs from convention by using printed texts to guide students in the analysis and interpretation of an unwritten world: The world of American popular culture, wherein images, often electronically conveyed, can be more important than words.
Identifier: 031209020X
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The essential Peirce
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Other title information: selected philosophical writings
Notes: Volume 1 (1867-1893)
Annotation: A convenient two-volume reader's edition makes accessible to students and scholars the most important philosophical papers of the brilliant American thinker Charles Sanders Peirce.
Identifier: 0253207215
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