Sign crossroads in global perspective
Subtitle: semiotics and responsibilities
By: Susan Petrilli ; John Deely, editor.
Contributors: Deely, John N.
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781412810678
Subjects: Semiotics; Semiotics -- Moral and ethical aspects; Semiotics -- Philosophy
Table of contents: title: The 7th Sebeok Fellow: Editor's Introduction; title: 1. Sebeok Fellow plenary address : semioethics and responsibility: Beyond specialisms, universalisms, and humanisms; title: 2. Working with interpreters of the "meaning of meaning":  International trends among 20th-century sign theorists; title: 3. The relation with Morris in Rossi-Landi's and Sebeok's approach to signs; title: 4. Iconicity and the origin of language:  Charles S. Peirce and Giorgio Fano; title: 5. Bodies and signs :  for a typology of semiosic materiality; title: 6. Semiotic phenomenology of predicative judgement; title: 7. On communication: Contributions to the human sciences and to humanism  from semiotics understood as semioethics; title: 8. Iconicity in translation: On Similarity, Alterity, and Dialogism in the Relation among Signs; title: Susan Petrilli: Biographical Note.