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In the newly revised version of 'The Sourcebook of Magic', readers can discover the basic 77 NLP patterns for transformational magic, sorted into key categories.
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The civil trial of Moran vs Moran was sensational for what it revealed about the Moran family, how the media reacted and how the public became greedy for more of the Morans. This is the story of Doug Moran and his family, and the eventual trial.
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This primer is designed for those who feel in need of some assistance when coming to grips with Foucault's voluminous and complex writings. For the last three decades these have had a profound influence on English-speaking scholars in the humanities and social sciences.
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Analysis of stage improvisation, from the Renaissance to the present, and how it can inform modern day drama and performance studies.
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Piotr Sadowski's study of light and shadows in visual arts and Weimar cinema is underpinned by the evolutionary semiotic theory of indexicality and iconicity. It is employed to account for the unique communicative and emotive power of such indexical media as the shadow theatre, s...ilhouette portraits, camera obscura, photography and film, as distinct from the iconic media such as painting, sculpture, or live performing arts. In visual arts as in life, the 'cast shadow' as an indexical sign maintains a physical connection with its near-present referent, such as a hidden person for example, stimulating our imagination and provoking anxiety, or at least instinctive curiosity. The cinematic shadow also plays a stylistic role, by enhancing image texture, depth of field, and tonal contrast. This is even more so important in monochromatic films, and Sadowski interweaves the book with accounts of seminal Weimar cinema moments.
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Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) is generally considered one of the main founders of modern linguistics and semiotics. This title introduces the reader to the ways in which Saussure developed his revolutionary insights on language and demystifies his complex theories.
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Emojis have gone from being niche internet symbols to ubiquitous communicative tools. Marcel Danesi explores what they can teach us about language and the future of communication.
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Scholarly interest in issues of self-identity has exploded across disciplines within the humanities and social sciences in recent years. Common to these concerns are the assumptions that self-identity is not an a priori, not given or fixed, but created in the process of communica...tion. This also assumes that social institutions and values are produced and reproduced by individuals in interaction. To capture the essential characteristics of a person requires analysis of how the social and psychological intersect in moments of communication. Interaction and Identity contributes, theoretically and empirically, to contemporary scholarly interest in issues of identity. Chapters and contributors to this stand alone volume include: Part/Whole Discovery: Stages of Inquiry by Thomas Scheff; Communication by Gregory Bateson; Internal Muzak: An Examination of Intrapersonal Relationships by Linda Lederman; The Constitution of Identity as Gendered in Psychoanalytic Therapy: Ideology and Interaction by Margaret Carr; and The (Reconstruction and Negotiation of Cultural Identities in the Age of Globalization by Getinet Belay. The multiple disciplines of social research with contemporary interest in identity are ably reflected in Interaction and Identity. The authors are drawn from eight disciplines: anthropology, communication, information science, linguistics, philosophy, psychoanalysis, psychology, and sociology. This book will be invaluable to scholars in all these areas--above all in communication research as such.
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This brief, student-friendly introduction to the study of semiotics uses lively examples from 28 iconic locations in the United States, such as Coney Island, Las Vegas, the World Trade Center, and the Grand Canyon.
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An Introduction to Applied Semiotics presents 19 Semiotics tools for text and image analysis. Covering a variety of different schools and approaches, together with the author's own original approach, this is a full and synthetic introduction to Semiotics . This book presents gene...ral tools that can be used with any semiotic product. Drawing on the work of Fontanille, Genette, Greimas, Hebert, Jakobson, Peirce, Rastier and Zilberberg, the tools deal with the analysis of themes and action, true and false, positive and negative, rhythm, narration, and other elements. The application of each tool is illustrated with analyses of a wide range of texts and images, from well-known or distinctive literary texts, philosophical or religious texts or images, paintings, advertising and everyday signs and symbols. Each chapter has the same structure: summary, theory, and application, and includes exercises and discussion questions, making it ideal for course use. Covering both visual and textual objects, this is a key text for all courses in semiotics and textual analysis, within linguistics, communication studies, literary theory, design, marketing and related areas.
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