Current Perspectives in Semiotics: Texts, Genres, and Representations

ISBN-13: 9783631744314 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 302 str.

Monika Weronika Kopytowska; Artur Galkowski

Opis

The volume focuses on the structure, functions and motivations of signs across texts and genres. Applying various theoretical approaches, the contributors examine the dynamic interplay between the verbal, the visual and other semiotic modes as well as notions of identity, ideology and representation in literature, media and political discourse.

Spis treści

Application of theoretical frameworks and methodologies used in semiotics - Structural and functional examination of texts and genres in contemporary semiosphere - Insights into the interface between the verbal and the visual - Critical reflections on identity, ideology and representation in literary and media texts

O autorze

Monika Kopytowska is Assistant Professor in the Department of Pragmatics at the University of Lódz, Poland. Her research interests revolve around the interface of language and cognition, identity, and the pragma- rhetorical aspects of the mass-mediated representation of religion, ethnicity, and conflict. She has published internationally in linguistic journals and volumes.

Artur Galkowski is Associate Professor of Italian and French linguistics at the University of Lódz, Poland, where he is the Head of the Department of Italian Studies at the Institute of Romance Philology. His research interests cover various issues in onomastics, semiotics, foreign language teaching, and translation, on which he has published numerous articles, edited volumes, monographs and book chapters.