Materialistic Semiotics and Social Reality
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This book features a series of essays by six authors, four of which now classics, in the field of philosophy of language and semiotics, and significantly edited and added to by the volume editor. Collectively, the book provides a powerful sign theory able to investigate how things work, their sense, and their meaning. The expanding global world is our social reality, supported and generated by signs, verbal and nonverbal. This book explains an expression that circulates in everyday language: materialism . Misunderstandings and disagreements are abundant regarding its use and meaning, even in…mehr

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This book features a series of essays by six authors, four of which now classics, in the field of philosophy of language and semiotics, and significantly edited and added to by the volume editor. Collectively, the book provides a powerful sign theory able to investigate how things work, their sense, and their meaning. The expanding global world is our social reality, supported and generated by signs, verbal and nonverbal. This book explains an expression that circulates in everyday language: materialism . Misunderstandings and disagreements are abundant regarding its use and meaning, even in special languages that of politics or other sciences concerned with the historical-social reality. In order to clear up these misunderstandings and disagreements, this collection outlines a materialistic approach to problems relevant to signs and society, contemporary and historical, building towards a scientifically based materialistic semiotics. It is therefore of great interest to abroad audience, including those interested in semiotics, linguistics, philosophy of language, communication studies, cultural studies and peace studies.
Autorenporträt
Susan Petrilli is a Professor of Philosophy and Theory of Languages at the University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy. She is the 7th Thomas Sebeok Fellow of the Semiotic Society of America; a Fellow of the International Communicology Institute, Washington, D.C.; Vice-President of the International Association for Semiotic Studies (2002–2020); Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide, South Australia; and honorary member of the Institute of Semiotics and Media Studies, Sichuan University, China. She is the author, editor, and translator of numerous publications, including books, articles, and essays that relate to her studies in philosophy of language, semiotics, and translation. She has contributed to the dissemination of works by Victoria Welby, Charles Peirce, Mikhail Bakhtin, Emmanuel Levinas, Adam Schaff, Thomas A. Sebeok, Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva, Ferruccio Rossi-Landi, Umberto Eco, and Augusto Ponzio. Petrilli also contributed monographs. Her most recent monographs include Signs, Language and Listening (2019); Significare, interpretare e intendere (2019); Senza ripari: Segni, differenze, estraneità (2021); Oltre il significato. La significs di Victoria Welby. Significatività e filosofia del linguaggio (2023); and On the Past, Present and Future of Semioethics. A Dialogue with Susan Petrilli by Simon Levesque (2025).