1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990008044010403321

Autore

Cato, Marcus Porcius <234/149 a. C.>

Titolo

On agriculture / Marcus Porcius Cato . On agriculture / Marcus Terentius Varro ; with an english translation by William Davis Hooper ; revised by Harrison Boyd Ash

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : William Heinemann

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, stampa 1954

Titolo uniforme

De agri cultura <in latino e in inglese>

Descrizione fisica

XXVI, 158, 544 p.

Collana

The Loeb classical library ; 283

Altri autori (Persone)

Varro, Marcus Terentius <116-27 a. C.>

Disciplina

870.01

Locazione

DDR

FLFBC

NAP03

Collocazione

DDR-Fonti II- Cato Ed.2 De agricultura 5

P2B 640 LCL 283

P2B.640-LOEB-CATO1-401A-1967 bis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Latino

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Testo originale a fronte



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910300001103321

Autore

Danesi Marcel

Titolo

Of Cigarettes, High Heels, and Other Interesting Things : An Introduction to Semiotics / / by Marcel Danesi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

9781349953486

1349953482

Edizione

[3rd ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IX, 236 p.)

Disciplina

302.2

Soggetti

Communication

Culture - Study and teaching

Semiotics

Popular culture

Ethnology

Sociolinguistics

Media and Communication

Cultural Studies

Popular Culture

Sociocultural Anthropology

Comunicació

Sociolingüística

Semiòtica

Llibres electrònics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Cigarettes and High Heels: The Universe of Signs -- 2. What Does It Mean?: How Humans Represent the World -- 3. Make-Up: Why Do We Put It on? -- 4. Tell Me about Yourself: What Is Language? -- 5. Kisses Sweeter than Wine: Metaphor and the Making of Meaning -- 6. Now, You Tell Me About Yourself: Why Do We Tell Stories? -- 7. At Arm's Length: The Meanings of Spaces -- 8. What a Beautiful Ring!: The Meaning of Clothes and Objects -- 9. Art is Indistinguishable from Life:



The Artistic Nature of the Human Species -- 10. There's More to Perfume than Smell: Advertising, Pop Culture, and Meme Culture.

Sommario/riassunto

This book deals with one the most interesting aspects of human life-the search for meaning. It discusses how the science of semiotics is equipped to provide insight on what meaning is and how we produce it. Why is it that certain people routinely put their survival at risk by smoking? Why is it that some women make locomotion difficult for themselves by donning high-heel footwear? Are there unconscious forces at work behind such strange behaviors? This book will attempt to answer such questions by claiming that these behaviors are meaningful in culture-specific ways. The discipline that studies such behaviors and their relation to meanings is called semiotics. Semiotics probes the human condition in its own peculiar way, by unraveling the meanings of signs, which motivate not only the wearing of high heel shoes, but also the construction of words and art forms. Now in its third edition, this landmark introduction to semiotics has been updated with a wealthof new content, focusing on the many developments in digital culture since the previous edition. With the addition of topics such as memes, Selfies, social media profiles, and even Mafia discourse, the new edition comprehensively covers new trends in culture while streamlining treatments of basic semiotics contents. Marcel Danesi is Professor of Semiotics and Anthropology at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is renowned for his work in several areas of semiotic study, including pop culture and metaphor. He has been a guest on several broadcast outlets, including National Public Radio. Among his major recent publications are The History of the Kiss (2013) and Murder in Plain English, with Michael Arntfield (2016). His work has been featured in the New York Times, Toronto Star, and Psychology Today, among other print publications. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of Semiotica, the leading journal in semiotics.