Bloomsbury Semiotics Volume 3: Semiotics in the Arts and Social Sciences

<p><i>Bloomsbury Semiotics</i> offers a state-of-the-art overview of the entire field of semiotics by revealing its influence on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. With four volumes spanning theory method and practice across the disciplines this definitive reference work emphasizes and strengthens common bonds shared across intellectual cultures and facilitates the discovery and recovery of meaning across fields. It comprises: <p/>Volume 1: History and Semiosis<br>Volume 2: Semiotics in the Natural and Technical Sciences<br>Volume 3: Semiotics in the Arts and Social Sciences<br>Volume 4: Semiotic Movements <p/>Written by leading international experts the chapters provide comprehensive overviews of the history and status of semiotic inquiry across a diverse range of traditions and disciplines. Together they highlight key contemporary developments and debates along with ongoing research priorities. Providing the most comprehensive and united overview of the field <i>Bloomsbury Semiotics</i> enables anyone from students to seasoned practitioners to better understand and benefit from semiotic insight and how it relates to their own area of study or research. <p/>Volume 3: <i>Semiotics in the Arts and Social Sciences </i>presents the state-of-the art in semiotic approaches to disciplines ranging from philosophy and anthropology to history and archaeology from sociology and religious studies to music dance rhetoric literature and structural linguistics. Each chapter goes casts a vision for future research priorities unanswered questions and fresh openings for semiotic participation in these and related fields.</p>