Unfolding the Semiotic Web in Urban Discourse

In Scientific Cooperation with Daina Teters
Herausgegeben:Wasik, Zdzislaw

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The main focus of this volume is on urbanity as a discursive way of human life in the city. Discourse is specified here in terms of semiotic codes and processes that link city dwellers as communicating selves into interpersonal and intersubjective collectivities when they create and interpret similar meanings embodied in material bearers. Accordingly, the unfolding of the semiotic web is understood, firstly, as detecting and evaluating the growth and manifestation of the sphere of meaning-bearers or a sequence of meaning-bearing events, and secondly, as identifying and explaining the constituents and aspects of discourse in the light of signs and/or sign-processes that aggregate individual participants of communication into discursive linkages on a lower level and discursive communities ¿ on a higher level of social grouping. Some contributions deal with the discursive properties of human individuals in urban environments, and some others are devoted either to the meta-discourses on the city or discourses in the city.

Produktdetails

• Philologica Wratislaviensia: From Grammar to Discourse 3
• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 261626
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 400g
• ISBN-13: 9783631616260
• ISBN-10: 3631616260
• Artikelnr.: 33532865

Autorenporträt

Zdzislaw Wąsik is Professor of Linguistic Semiotics and Rector of Philological School of Higher Education in Wroclaw (Poland). His didactic experience has been enriched through the cooperation with universities and vocational schools of higher education in Wroclaw, Opole, Poznań, and Toruń, as well as in Walbrzych, and Jelenia Góra. He has published several books and articles on the typology of interrogative utterancees, semiotic and ecological properties of language, and history of linguistic ideas.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Richard L. Lanigan: On homeworld and community models of the
city: The communicology of egocentric and sociocentric cultures in urban
semiotics - Zdzislaw Wasik: Towards an idea of urbanity as a discursive way
of human life in the city - developing a conceptual framework - Daina
Teters: The city as a space and the space in the city: A semiotic inquiry
into the formation of Riga - Zdzislaw Wasik: Roots and varieties of
functionalist discourses in the understanding of linguistic functions -
Elzbieta Wasik: Linguistic functionalism and the principle of abstractive
relevance in the metaurbanist discourse on art and architecture - Richard
L. Lanigan: Slugging: The nonce sign in an urban communicology of
transportation - Camelia Cmeciu/Doina Cmeciu: New insights into corporate
social responsibility: The semiotic act of experiencing a city through
street naming - Daina Teters: Imaginary architecture and the verbal
description of emptiness: Paths, roads, and streets - a research
communiqué - Ioana Boghian: The semiotics of urban space and architecture
in literary discourse of the Victorian period - Józef Zaprucki: On the
historical interference in the urban discourse - a research communiqué (on
the basis of Jelenia Góra and Karkonosze mountains region).