The Semiotics of Love

By:

Marcel Danesi

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Semiotics and Popular Culture

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The Semiotics of Love brings together work on early symbolism, literary practices, and contemporary communication on the theme of romance and the idea of love to forge an understanding of the semiotic-cultural side of romance. Moving beyond psychological and neuroscientific scholarly analyses of love, Marcel Danesi works to interrogate the cultural constructions of love across societies. This book analyzes romantic love from the general perspective of semiotics—that is, from its more generic interpretive angle, rather than its more technical one. The specific analytical lens used is based on the notion that we convert our feeling structures into sign structures (words, symbols) and sign-based constructions (texts, rituals, etc.), which then allow us to reflect upon something cognitively, rather than just experience it physically and emotionally.

Author Biography:

Marcel Danesi is Professor of Semiotics and Anthropology at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is renowned for his work in several areas of semiotic study, including pop culture and metaphor. He has been a guest on several broadcast outlets, including National Public Radio. Among his major recent publications are The History of the Kiss!: The Birth of Popular Culture (Palgrave, 2013); Murder in Plain English, with Michael Arntfield (2017); and Of Cigarettes, High Heels, and Other Interesting Things: An Introduction to Semiotics, 3rd edition (Palgrave, 2018). His work has been featured in the New York Times, Toronto Star, and Psychology Today, among other print publications. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of Semiotica, the leading journal in semiotics.

Release date NZ

August 12th, 2019

Author

Marcel Danesi

Series

Semiotics and Popular Culture

Pages

178

Edition

1st ed. 2019

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

22 Illustrations, color; 3 Illustrations, black and white; XII, 178 p. 25 illus., 22 illus. in color.

ISBN-13

9783030181109

Product ID

30230019

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