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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828571003321

Autore

Andrews Edna <1958->

Titolo

Conversations with Lotman : cultural semiotics in language, literature, and cognition / / Edna Andrews

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2003

©2003

ISBN

1-282-02297-0

9786612022975

1-4426-7345-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (221 p.)

Collana

Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication

Altri autori (Persone)

LotmanI︠U︡. M <1922-1993.> (I︠U︡riĭ Mikhaĭlovich)

Disciplina

302.2

Soggetti

Semiotics

Culture - Semiotic models

Semiotics and literature

Cognition

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Lotman's Cultural Semiotic Theory -- 1. Lotman's Contributions to the Semiotics of Culture -- 2. The Structure of Cultural Semiotic Systems -- 3. Introduction to the Semiosphere -- 4. Characteristics and Origins of the Semiosphere -- pt. 2. The Construction of Semiotic Space in Verbal Texts -- 5. Lotman, Bulgakov, and Zamyatin -- 6. Bulgakov and Zamyatin -- 7. Extending Lotmanian Theory -- pt. 3. Semiotic Theory as a Cognitive Science -- 8. Visual and Auditory Signs in Human Language: Perception and Imagery -- 9. The Language of Memory in the Memory of Language.

Sommario/riassunto

Andrews grapples with Lotman's difficult, sometimes contradictory, theories of human language, perception, and memory, offering semioticians the opportunity to read the first sustained study of Lotman's work in English.