LEADER 04830nam 22007935 450 001 9910300001103321 005 20260122145301.0 010 $a9781349953486 010 $a1349953482 024 7 $a10.1057/978-1-349-95348-6 035 $a(CKB)4100000003359147 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-349-95348-6 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6315403 035 $a(Perlego)3494505 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000003359147 100 $a20180427d2018 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aOf Cigarettes, High Heels, and Other Interesting Things $eAn Introduction to Semiotics /$fby Marcel Danesi 205 $a3rd ed. 2018. 210 1$aNew York :$cPalgrave Macmillan US :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (IX, 236 p.) 311 08$a9781349953479 311 08$a1349953474 327 $a1. 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. 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aCommunication 606 $aCulture$xStudy and teaching 606 $aSemiotics 606 $aPopular culture 606 $aEthnology 606 $aSociolinguistics 606 $aMedia and Communication 606 $aCultural Studies 606 $aSemiotics 606 $aPopular Culture 606 $aSociocultural Anthropology 606 $aSociolinguistics 606 $aComunicació$2thub 606 $aSociolingüística$2thub 606 $aSemiòtica$2thub 608 $aLlibres electrònics$2thub 615 0$aCommunication. 615 0$aCulture$xStudy and teaching. 615 0$aSemiotics. 615 0$aPopular culture. 615 0$aEthnology. 615 0$aSociolinguistics. 615 14$aMedia and Communication. 615 24$aCultural Studies. 615 24$aSemiotics. 615 24$aPopular Culture. 615 24$aSociocultural Anthropology. 615 24$aSociolinguistics. 615 7$aComunicació 615 7$aSociolingüística 615 7$aSemiòtica 676 $a302.2 700 $aDanesi$b Marcel$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0166452 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910300001103321 996 $aOf Cigarettes, High Heels, and Other Interesting Things$92200138 997 $aUNINA