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Why is it that certain members of the human species routinely put their survival at risk by smoking cigarettes? Why is it that some females make walking a struggle for themselves by donning high heel footwear? This book attempts to answer such questions. Such risky behaviors are obviously shaped by forces other than the instincts. Indeed, for no manifest genetic reason, humanity is constantly searching for a purpose to its existence; this search has led it to invent myths, art, rituals, languages, mathematics, science, and other truly remarkable things that set it apart from all other species. In this volume author Marcello Danesi shows us that the discipline that endeavors to understand the human meaning quest is known as semiotics. Danesi demonstrates how semiotics unravels the meanings of signs that make up the system of everyday life that we call a culture or a society. This book will engender in the reader the same kind of questioning and inquisitive frame of mind with which a semiotician approaches the subject matter of meaning. Basic semiotic ideas and analytical techniques are introduced via a seemingly fictional yet very telling scene, one which reveals a lot about the human need for meaning. The scene is a fashionable modern-day restaurant, and the fictional actions that occur allow Danesi to provide the semiotic version of the human drama in concrete terms. As Danesi argues, perhaps the greatest skill possessed by Homo Sapiens, literally the knowing animal, is the ability to know itself. This book reveals how semiotics helps to sharpen that ability considerably.
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Danesi (Univ. of Toronto) provides a semiotic introduction to understanding "the human quest for meaning" through an extended analysis of a hypothetical tape of two young, attractive people playing the dating game "at an elegantly set table in a trendy restaurant/night club." Grounding his chapter-by-chapter analysis of the interaction between these two people on the ideas of Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, George Lakoff, Ferdinand de Saussure, et al., Danesi ranges widely in a variety of areas, including art, advertising, language, myth, television, and popular culture. He makes reference to a variety of writers, artists, and thinkers, among them Aristotle, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, Samuel Johnson, and T.S. Eliot. Danesi aims to illuminate the reader's consciousness through a general semiotic approach that will "stimulate the reader to think reflectively and critically about the system of everyday life in which he or she takes part." The wide-ranging nature of the study makes it necessarily cursory in places. It will be of interest primarily to upper-division undergraduates in a variety of disciplines. W. B. Warde Jr.; University of North Texas
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Danesi, director of the Program in Semiotics and Communication Theory at the University of Toronto, uses the interaction between a man and a woman on a date in a fashionable restaurant to provide a concrete example of how human beings create and seek meaning in many kinds of "texts": language, narrative, gesture, clothing, make-up, physical setting, art, and media. This basic introduction to semioticsÄthe study of meaningÄis clear and interesting and would be useful as an introductory textbook; it is free of dense jargon but introduces the key terms of the discipline. Other titles by Danesi include Cool: The Signs and Meanings of Adolescence and Sign, Thought, and Culture: A Basic Course in Semiotics, 2d ed. Recommended for academic libraries.ÄPaula Dempsey, DePaul Univ. Lib., Chicago (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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List of figures | p. vi |
Preface | p. vii |
1 Cigarettes and High Heels: The Universe of Signs | p. 1 |
2 What Does It Mean?: How Humans Represent the World | p. 23 |
3 Make-Up: Why Do We Put It On? | p. 47 |
4 Tell Me about Yourself: What Is Language? | p. 65 |
5 Kisses Sweeter Than Wine: Metaphor and the Making of Meaning | p. 91 |
6 Now, You Tell Me about Yourself: Why Do We Tell Stories? | p. 113 |
7 At Arm's Length: The Meanings of Spaces | p. 131 |
8 What a Beautiful Ring!: The Meaning of Clothes and Objects | p. 147 |
9 Art Is Indistinguishable from Life: The Artistic Nature of the Human Species | p. 163 |
10 There's More to Perfume Than Smell: Advertising, Pop Culture, and Television | p. 181 |
Notes | p. 201 |
Index | p. 209 |