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Social Semiotics as Praxis : Text, Social Meaning Making, and Nabokov's Ada.
Title:
Social Semiotics as Praxis : Text, Social Meaning Making, and Nabokov's Ada.
Author:
Thibault, Paul J.
ISBN:
9780816683451
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (321 pages)
Series:
Theory and History of Literature
Contents:
Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- I. Introduction -- 1. The Conceptual Framework of a Praxis-Oriented Social Semiotic Theory -- II. Contextualization Dynamics and Insider/Outsider Relations -- 2. The Sociosemantics of Quoting and Reporting Relations -- 3. Contextual Dynamics and the Recursive Analysis of Insider and Outsider Relations in Quoting and Reporting Speech -- 4. Redundancy, Coding, and Punctuation in the Contextual Dynamics of Quoting and Reporting Speech -- III. Intertextuality -- 5. Text, Discourse, and Intertextuality -- 6. Intertextuality, Social Heteroglossia, and Text Semantics -- IV. Subjects, Codes, and Discursive Practice -- 7. Social Meaning Making, Textual Politics, and Power -- 8. The Neomaterialist Social Semiotic Subject -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Appendix 4 -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Abstract:
Focusing on Nabokov's Ada, the author rescues semiotics from terminal formalism by developing a conception of social semiotics that is a form of both social action and political praxis.
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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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