The Semiotics of Fortune-telling
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 1990
VII, 216 pages
978-90-272-7824-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book presents a semiotic analysis of the linguistic and extralinguistic elements of fortune-telling as part of a larger pragmatic-oriented theory of human communication. The material was collected in Israel, in Hebrew, and parallels are made with other languages and cultures. The analysis is based on dynamic relativism of the multidimensional, transcendental, holistic process of human communication.
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Edna Aphek | Yishai Tobin
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Content
- THE SEMIOTICS OF FORTUNE-TELLING
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Notes
- Chapter 1. Fortune-Telling as a Semiotic System
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Fortune-telling as a meta-semiotic system
- 3. The discourse element of the meta-system of fortune-telling
- Notes
- Appendix
- Chapter 2. The Language of Fortune-Telling
- 1. The classification of fortune-tellers
- 2. The data
- Excerpt 1. The "classic" fortune-teller: Female coffee reader
- Excerpt 2. The "classic" fortune-teller: Male astrologist
- Excerpt 3. The "Western specialist": Male palm reader
- Excerpt 4. The "Western specialist": Female astrologist
- Excerpt 5. The "intermediate category": Female cartomantist and coffee reader
- Excerpt 6. The "intermediate category": Male palm and coffee reader
- 3. The omniscopus language of fortune-telling
- Notes
- Chapter 3. Image Building and Establishing Credibility in Fortune-Telling
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The data and analysis
- Notes
- Chapter 4. A contrastive analysis of astrology and horoscopes
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Horoscopes as a simple semiotic system
- 3. An example of a horoscope
- 4. Astrology as a complex semiotic system
- 5. Examples of astrological sessions
- Notes
- Chapter 5. The Visual and the Textual in Cartomancy
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The cartomantist-client encounter as a semiotic system
- 3. The semiology of cards
- 4. The system of language
- 5. Conclusion
- Notes
- Chapter 6. Fortune-Telling in Literature and the Real World
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The literary texts
- 3. The real world fortune-telling sessions
- 4. The comparison and contrast of fortune-telling in literature and the real world
- Notes
- Concluding Remarks Motivation, Imagination and Magic
- NOTE
- List of Figures and Tables
- Chapter 1: Fortune-Telling as a Semiotic System
- Chapter 2: The Language of Fortune-Telling
- Chapter 3: Image Building and Establishing Credibility
- Chapter 4: A Contrastive Analysis of Astrology and Horoscopes
- Chapter 5: The Visual and the Textual in Cartomancy
- Chapter 6: Fortune-telling in literature
- References
- Corpus of Literary Works
- Newspapers
- Name Index
- Subject Index
