Semiotics and Hermeneutics of the Everyday.
Title:
Semiotics and Hermeneutics of the Everyday.
Author:
Yoka, Lia.
ISBN:
9781443879354
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (319 pages)
Contents:
TABLE OF CONTENTS -- NTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 -- THE EVERYDAY IS "INSIGNIFICANT" -- 'TWELVE THOUSAND BREAKFASTS' -- THE SEMIOTICS OF SITUATIONISTURBAN THEORY -- 'TWELVE THOUSAND BREAKFASTS' -- CHAPTER 2 -- LIFESTYLE AND CONSUMERISM -- "CARVING THE BODY" -- TRIVIAL OBJECTS, ECONOMYAND 'ATTAINABLE LUXURY' -- EVERYDAY FANTASY -- CHAPTER 3 -- THE CLAY OF THE EARTH -- WRITING UNDER DAILY CONSTRAINT(S) -- SUBTITLES -- STILLING THE FLOW OF SIGNS -- EVERYDAY PRACTICES ON THE INTERNETAND THE EXPANSION OF CROWDSOURCEDTRANSLATION -- CHAPTER 4: -- THE AFRICAN QUOTIDIAN OF THE IVORIANSOCIETY AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF AYAOF YOPOUGON -- AESTHETICS OF EVERYDAY LIFEIN TWO ARABMOVIES: -- THE VISIBILITY OF THE OTHER IN GREEKEVERYDAY LIFE: -- THE SEMIOTICS OF SUBTITLING OF LANGUAGEVARIATIONS IN TELEVISIONADVERTISEMENTS IN GREECE -- "ANY DAY IS A WHOLE STORY, EVEN WHENYOU BELIEVE NOTHING'S HAPPENED".
Abstract:
The linchpin of the momentous paradigm shift that produced the new hermeneutics of everyday life was a focus on people as active agents in various cultural contexts, uses and practices, the merging of the conventional distinctions between the private and the public, the local and the global, the material and the symbolic, and the bridging of the agency/structure divide marking grand historical and cultural narratives. In their place, a wealth of new kinds of narratives were produced out what ...
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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