Signs in Society
Studies in Semiotic Anthropology
Published on 22. June 1994
Book
Hardback
319 pages
978-0-253-32757-4 (ISBN)
Description
Richard Parmentier takes up Ferdinand de Saussure's challenge to study the "life of signs in society" by using semiotic tools proposed by Charles Sanders Peirce. He studies how semiotic theory can illuminate highly complex social and cultural practices.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bloomington, IN
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paper over boards
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
536 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-253-32757-4 (9780253327574)
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RICHARD J. PARMENTIER, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University, is the author of The Sacred Remains: Myth, History, and Polity in Belau and articles on Pacific ethnography, anthropological linguistics, and semiotic theory.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I Foundations of Peircean Semiotics
1
Peirce Divested for Nonintimates
Sign, Object, and Interpretant
Symbols and Legisigns
Language and Logic
The Trichotomies
Scientific Knowledge and Cultural Belief
2
Peirce's Concept of Semiotic Mediation
The Fundamental Model of Semiotic Mediation
Semiotic Mediation and the Correlates of the Sign
Thirdness as Mediation
Sign as Medium of Communication
Part II Signs in Ethnographic Context
3
Transactional Symbolism in Belauan Mortuary Rites
Responses to Death
Initial Funeral Transactions
Burial Practices
Final Transactions
Conclusion
4
The Political Function of Reported Speech
Authoritative Speech
Ethnographic Context
Ngiraklang's Speech to the Council
Metapragmatic Elements in the Speech
Textual Pragmatics
Part III Comparative Perspectives on Complex Semiotic Processes
5
Tropical Semiotics
Levels of Semiosis
Collectivizing and Differentiating Sybolization
Convention and Innateness
Obviational Exchange
Tropes and Narrative
Foi Cultural Semiotics
6
The Semiotic Regimentation of Social Life
Social Action and Semiotic Text
Content and Type in Ritual Performativity
Institutional Regimentation of Touristic Experience
Ideological Regimentation in Advertising
Part IV Social Theory and Social Action
7
Comparison, Pragmatic, and Interpretation
Models and Strategies of Comparison
Comparative Philosophy of Religion as a Discipline
Comparison and Interpretation as Practical Reason
Directions for Future Research
8
Naturalization of Convention
Arbitrariness and Motivation
Naturalization in Social Theory
Naturalization and Conventionalization in Social Reality
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index
Introduction
Part I Foundations of Peircean Semiotics
1
Peirce Divested for Nonintimates
Sign, Object, and Interpretant
Symbols and Legisigns
Language and Logic
The Trichotomies
Scientific Knowledge and Cultural Belief
2
Peirce's Concept of Semiotic Mediation
The Fundamental Model of Semiotic Mediation
Semiotic Mediation and the Correlates of the Sign
Thirdness as Mediation
Sign as Medium of Communication
Part II Signs in Ethnographic Context
3
Transactional Symbolism in Belauan Mortuary Rites
Responses to Death
Initial Funeral Transactions
Burial Practices
Final Transactions
Conclusion
4
The Political Function of Reported Speech
Authoritative Speech
Ethnographic Context
Ngiraklang's Speech to the Council
Metapragmatic Elements in the Speech
Textual Pragmatics
Part III Comparative Perspectives on Complex Semiotic Processes
5
Tropical Semiotics
Levels of Semiosis
Collectivizing and Differentiating Sybolization
Convention and Innateness
Obviational Exchange
Tropes and Narrative
Foi Cultural Semiotics
6
The Semiotic Regimentation of Social Life
Social Action and Semiotic Text
Content and Type in Ritual Performativity
Institutional Regimentation of Touristic Experience
Ideological Regimentation in Advertising
Part IV Social Theory and Social Action
7
Comparison, Pragmatic, and Interpretation
Models and Strategies of Comparison
Comparative Philosophy of Religion as a Discipline
Comparison and Interpretation as Practical Reason
Directions for Future Research
8
Naturalization of Convention
Arbitrariness and Motivation
Naturalization in Social Theory
Naturalization and Conventionalization in Social Reality
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index