Social Semiotics as Praxis

by Paul J. Thibault

Book Overview

In Social Semiotics as Praxis, Paul J. Thibault rescues semiotics from terminal formalism by recognizing that the object of a semiotic inquiry is necessarily the way in which human beings, individually and collectively, make sense of their lives. Focusing on Vladimir Nabokov's Ada, he develops a conception of social semiotics that is a form of both social action and political praxis.

Thibault's principal intellectual...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816618666
• ISBN13: 9780816618668
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"