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Signifying Acts

Author : R. S. Perinbanayagam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Signifying Acts written by R. S. Perinbanayagam and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theme of Signifying Acts is that social acts are created by human agents engaging in signifying gestures and eliciting determined responses—from which flow a number of consequences. This theme is developed by a critical synthesis of various strands of early and contemporary thought in symbolism, meaning, language, and grammar. These strands have been classified as pragmatism and interactionism, structuralism and grammatical theory Perinbanayagam brings together for the first time the writings of G. H. Mead and his followers, who label their efforts “symbolic interactionism,” and the recent developments in the philosophical and anthropological studies of mind and meaning. Through his wide-ranging analysis, he demonstrates the sociological relevance of Chomsky, Derrida, and Searle and particularizes their contributions to a more comprehensive theoretical framework. The interdisciplinary scope of his thesis recalls Ernest Becker’s Birth and Death of Meaning, and his stylistic flair will stimulate readers at all levels of sophistication.

Signifying and Understanding

Author : Susan Petrilli
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110218518
Total Pages : 1068 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Signifying and Understanding written by Susan Petrilli and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009-12-15 with total page 1068 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theory of signifying (significs), formulated and introduced by Victoria Welby for the first time in 1890s, is at the basis of much of twentieth-century linguistics, as well as in other language and communication sciences such as sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, translation theory and semiotics. Indirectly, the origins of approaches, methods and categories elaborated by analytical philosophy, Wittgenstein himself, Anglo-American speech act theory, and pragmatics are largely found with Victoria Lady Welby. Indeed, it is no exaggeration to say, in addition, that Welby is the "founding mother" of semiotics. Some of Peirce's most innovative writings – for example, those on existential graphs – are effectively letters to Lady Welby. She was an esteemed correspondent of scholars such as Bertrand Russell, Charles K. Ogden, Herbert G. Wells, Ferdinand S. C. Schiller, Michel Bréal, André Lalande, the brothers Henry and William James, and Peirce, as well as Frederik van Eeden, Mary Everst Boole, Ferdinand Tönnies, and Giovanni Vailati. Her writings directly inspired the Signific Movement in the Netherlands, important for psycholinguistics, linguistics and semantics and inaugurated by van Eeden and developed by such authors as Gerrit Mannoury. This volume, containing introductions and commentaries, presents a selection from Welby's published and unpublished writings delineating the whole course of her research through to developments with the Significs Movement in the Netherlands and still other ramifications, contemporary and subsequent to her. A selection of essays by first-generation significians contributing to the Signific Movement in the Netherlands completes the collection, testifying to the progress of significs after Welby and even independently from her. This volume contributes to the reconstruction on both the historical and theoretical levels of an important period in the history of ideas. The aim of the volume is to convey a sense of the theoretical topicality of significs and its developments, especially in semiotics, and in particular its thematization of the question of values and the connection with signs, meaning, and understanding, therefore with human verbal and nonverbal behavior, language and communication.

Brain, Mind and the Signifying Body

Author : Paul J. Thibault
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826492533
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Brain, Mind and the Signifying Body written by Paul J. Thibault and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-11-17 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cutting-edge study of linguistic theory by one of the world's leading authors in the field of semiotics will be of interest to academics and postgraduates researching applied linguistics and advanced semiotics. In his foreword M. A. K. Halliday explains the importance of Paul J. Thibault's work to linguistics. Book jacket.

Signifying Nothing

Author : B. Rotman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349186899
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book Signifying Nothing written by B. Rotman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Signifying God

Author : Sarah Beckwith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226041336
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Signifying God written by Sarah Beckwith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Signifying God, Sarah Beckwith explores the most lavish, long-lasting, and complex form of collective theatrical enterprise in English history: the York Corpus Christi plays. First staged as early as 1376, the plays were performed annually until the late 1500s and involved as much as a tenth of the city in multiple performances at a dozen or more locations. Introducing a radical new understanding of these plays as "sacramental theater," Beckwith shows how organizing the plays served as a political mechanism for regulating labor, and how theater and sacrament combined in them to do important theological work. She argues, for instance, that the theology of Corpus Christi in the resurrection plays can only be understood as a theatrical exploration of eucharistic absence and presence. Beckwith frames her study with discussions of twentieth-century manifestations of sacramental theater in Barry Unsworth's novel Morality Play and Denys Arcand's film Jesus of Montreal, and the connections between contemporary revivals of the York Corpus Christi plays and England's heritage culture.

The Signifying Eye

Author : Candace Waid
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820345830
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Signifying Eye written by Candace Waid and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold book, built of close readings, striking in its range and depth, The Signifying Eye shows Faulkner's art take shape in sweeping arcs of social, labor, and aesthetic history. Beginning with long-unpublished works (his childhood sketches and his hand-drawn and handillustrated play The Marionettes) and early novels (Mosquitoes and Sartoris), working through many major works (The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Light in August, and Absalom, Absalom!), and including more popular fictions (The Wild Palms and The Unvanquished) and late novels (notably Intruder in the Dust and The Town), The Signifying Eye reveals Faulkner's visual obsessions with artistic creation as his work is read next to Wharton, Cather, Toomer, and—in a tour de force intervention—Willem de Kooning. After coloring in southern literature as a "reverse slave narrative," Waid's Eye locates Faulkner's fiction as the "feminist hinge" in a crucial parable of art that seeks abstraction through the burial of the race-defined mother. Race is seen through gender and sexuality while social fall is exposed (in Waid's phrase) as a "coloring of class." Locating "visual language" that constitutes a "pictorial vocabulary," The Signifying Eye delights in literacy as the oral meets the written and the abstract opens as a site to see narrative. Steeped in history, this book locates a heightened reality that goes beyond representation to bring Faulkner's novels, stories, and drawings into visible form through Whistler, Beardsley, Gorky, and de Kooning. Visionary and revisionist, Waid has painted the proverbial big picture, changing the fundamental way that both the making of modernism and the avant-garde will be seen. A Friends Fund publication

The Public General Acts

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Public General Acts written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Signifying God

Author : Sarah Beckwith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226041344
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Signifying God written by Sarah Beckwith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-11 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Signifying God, Sarah Beckwith explores the most lavish, long-lasting, and complex form of collective theatrical enterprise in English history: the York Corpus Christi plays. First staged as early as 1376, the plays were performed annually until the late 1500s and involved as much as a tenth of the city in multiple performances at a dozen or more locations. Introducing a radical new understanding of these plays as "sacramental theater," Beckwith shows how organizing the plays served as a political mechanism for regulating labor, and how theater and sacrament combined in them to do important theological work. She argues, for instance, that the theology of Corpus Christi in the resurrection plays can only be understood as a theatrical exploration of eucharistic absence and presence. Beckwith frames her study with discussions of twentieth-century manifestations of sacramental theater in Barry Unsworth's novel Morality Play and Denys Arcand's film Jesus of Montreal, and the connections between contemporary revivals of the York Corpus Christi plays and England's heritage culture.

The National Bank Act and Its Judicial Meaning

Author : Albert Sidney Bolles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The National Bank Act and Its Judicial Meaning written by Albert Sidney Bolles and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Being and Predication

Author : Ralph M. McInerny
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813230845
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Being and Predication written by Ralph M. McInerny and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2018-03-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together articles that influenced the scholarly work of Ralph McInerny.

The Social and Political Body

Author : Theodore R. Schatzki
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572301405
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Social and Political Body written by Theodore R. Schatzki and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the provocative premise that the body is the anchor of the social order, this book delves into the multidimensional relationship between sociopolitical bodies and human bodies. It explores the way that prevailing economic and political institutions affect our experience of our physical selves and, in turn, the ways that our bodily senses, energies, activities and desires reinforce or challenge the status quo.

The Signifying Monkey

Author : Henry Louis Gates, Jr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195136470
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book The Signifying Monkey written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1989"--Title page verso.

Lectures on Jurisprudence, Or, The Philosophy of Positive Law

Author : John Austin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Lectures on Jurisprudence, Or, The Philosophy of Positive Law written by John Austin and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lectures on Jurisprudence

Author : John Austin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Lectures on Jurisprudence written by John Austin and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Democracy's Children

Author : John McGowan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501720961
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Democracy's Children written by John McGowan and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do American intellectuals try to achieve their political and social goals? By what means do they articulate their hopes for change? John McGowan seeks to identify the goals and strategies of contemporary humanistic intellectuals who strive to shape the politics and culture of their time. In a lively mix of personal reflection and shrewd analysis, McGowan visits the sites of intellectual activity (scholarly publications, professional conferences, the classroom, and the university) and considers the hazards of working within such institutional contexts to effect change outside the academy. Democracy's Children considers the historical trajectory that produced current intellectual practices. McGowan links the growing prestige of "culture" since 1800 to the growth of democracy and the obsession with modernity and explores how intellectuals became both custodians and creators of culture. Caught between fears of culture's irrelevance and dreams of its omnipotence, intellectuals pursue a cultural politics that aims for wide-ranging social transformations. For better or worse, McGowan says, the humanities are now tied to culture and to the university. The opportunities and frustrations attendant on this partnership resonate with the larger successes and failures of contemporary democratic societies. His purpose in this collection of essays is to illuminate the conditions under which intellectuals in a democracy work and at the same time to promote intellectual activities that further democratic ideals.

The Household Bible Dictionary. New Illustrated Edition, Etc

Author : James Aitken WYLIE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The Household Bible Dictionary. New Illustrated Edition, Etc written by James Aitken WYLIE and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Signifying Monkey

Author : Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199722757
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book The Signifying Monkey written by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1989-12-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Signifying Monkey is the first book of literary criticism to trace the roots of contemporary Black literature to Afro-American folklore and to the traditions of African languages. As the author examines the ancient poetry of the Ifa Oracle (found in Nigeria, Benin, Brazil, Cuba, and Haiti), he uncovers the origins of a sacred system of divination, brought to America by black slaves who felt it to be the very "heart-beat" of their souls. Gates demonstrates how a heroic and popular character called the Signifying Monkey emerged from this divination and came to pervade Afro-American culture. In providing masterful readings of literary works by Alice Walker, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Jean Toomer, Richard Wright, and Ishmael Reed--and in defining how the works of these authors "signify upon" each other--the author delivers a powerful and ground-breaking work of critical theory. Many previously unpublished tales about the Monkey, as well as those already published, are collected in a detailed appendix.