The Bloomsbury Companion to Contemporary Peircean Semiotics

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This book considers the work and influence of Charles Sanders Peirce, showing how the concepts and ideas he developed continue to impact and shape contemporary research issues. Written by a team of leading international scholars of semiotics, linguistics and philosophy, this Companion examines the growing impact of Peirce's thought and semiotic theories on a range of different fields. Discussing topics such as narrative, architecture, design, aesthetics and linguistics, the book furthers understanding of the contemporary pertinence of Peircean concepts in theoretical and empirical fashion. The Bloomsbury Companion to Contemporary Peircean Semiotics is the definitive guide to the enduring legacy of one of the world's greatest semioticians.

Tony Jappy is professeur honoraire of English Linguistics and Semiotics at the University of Perpignan-Via Domitia, France.

Peirce's sign theory is famously both admired and feared. This engaging volume manages to both elegantly explicate its fundamentals, and present an exciting range of its current uses. The contributors are notably international and interdisciplinary, reflecting the future potential of this research area, whose fundamental reach is being newly understood. * Catherine Legg, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Deakin University, Australia * It is hard to imagine a better entry to the realm of Peirce's triadic semiotic than the fifteen carefully crafted conceptual elaborations and applications of it assembled by Tony Jappy. Prominent international scholars have created a most necessary cartography to explore the state of the semiotic territory on wide-ranging topics such as education, aesthetics, media, technology and science, among others.Their substantial contributions provide an illuminating guide to understand a rich theoretical body that has sometimes been described as difficult to grasp. * Fernando Andacht, Full Professor, Facultad de Informacion y Comunicacion - Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay *