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Caged in Our Own Signs A Book about Semiotics
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By Kyong Liong Kim
ISBN: 1-56750-214-8
ISBN-13: 978-1-56750-214-5
Ablex Publishing
Publication: 1/1/1996
List Price: $49.95 (UK Sterling Price: £27.95)
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Description: Caged in Our Own Signs: A Book About Semiotics is a primer of semiotics, intended for general readers as well as communication majors. The first five chapters introduce the basic constructs, models, assumptions, frameworks for semiotic thinking, and other elements that underpin contemporary semiotics. This volume also provides the reader with semiotic methodology to analyze issues of postmodernism, of text semiotics, and of mass cultural semiotics. This book is written in such a way that the reader may easily apply the semiotic knowledge to the everyday conversation and discourse.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • WHAT IS SEMIOTICS?
  • THE STRUCTURE OF SIGNS
  • Sign = Signifier + Signified
  • Signification
  • A Dialectic Synthesis
  • The Sign, The Lie, The Truth
  • SIGNS AND MEANINGS
  • Icon, Index, Symbol. Monosemy-Polysemy
  • Denotation: Connotation. Scheme: Usage. Similarities: Differences
  • Categories of Signs
  • REALITY CONSTRUCTION
  • Categories
  • Metaphors
  • Metonymies
  • Images
  • CODES AND CODIFICATION
  • Arbitrariness and Convention
  • Convention and Motivation
  • Codification and De-codification
  • Paradigm and Syntagm
  • Definition of Codes
  • Three Types of Codes
  • Restructuring Codes
  • Codes for Prescribed Society
  • SEMIOSIS
  • Human Semiosis
  • Tripartite Models of Semiosis
  • Two Branches of Semiosis
  • Characterisitic of Nesting
  • Semiotization
  • Crisis in Representation
  • Centrality of Text
  • SEMIOLOGICAL SPACE
  • Human = Semiological Space
  • Language: Psychological Space
  • The Semiotic Self. Heaven: The Dialectic Space. Internal Image
  • External Image
  • TEXT SEMIOTICS
  • Barthes' Model
  • The Sand Myth
  • Defining the Text
  • The Structure of the Text
  • Binary Oppositions
  • Synchronicity, Dichronicity, Panchronicity
  • Paradigm and Synchronicity
  • Syntagm and Diachronicity
  • Metalanguage
  • MYTHOLOGY
  • Myth as Form
  • Myth as Discourse
  • Diachronic Text Analysis
  • The Characteristics of Myth
  • IDEOLOGY
  • From Mythology to Ideology
  • Myth and Hegemony
  • Definitive Meanings
  • Counter-Myth
  • MASS CULTURAL SEMIOTICS
  • Television
  • Film
  • Photography
  • Cartoons
  • Conclusion: Two Realities
  • MYTH- MAKING
  • The Womb of Stories
  • The Semiotic Square
  • A Three-Layer Structure
  • A Story of Man
  • Four Types of Labor
  • The Loci of a Serial Death
  • Calling for Narratives of Life
  • References
  • Glossary
  • Index
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