Bücher der Reihe Approaches to Semiotics [AS]

Branigan effectively criticizes the communication model of narration, a task long overdue in Anglo-American circles. The book brings out the extent to which mainstream mimetic theories have relied upon the elastic notion of an invisible, idealized observer, a convenient spook whom critics can summon up whenever they desire to "e;naturalize"e; style. The book also makes distinctions among types of subjectivity; after this, we will have much more precise ways of tracing the fluctuations among a character's vision, dreams, wishes, and so forth. Branigan also explains the necessity of distinguishing levels of narration.

Frontmatter -- Table Of Contents -- Introduction -- Part One. The Regulatory Function Of Speech -- I. Speech As Instruction -- Part Two. Clinical Implications Of Semiotic Theory -- II. Crystallized Conflict: Semiotic Aspects Of Neurosis And Science -- III. Psychoanalysis And The Twentieth-Century Revolution In Communication -- IV. Momentary Deity And Personal Myth -- Part Three. On The Theory Of Information-Novelty -- V. Coping With Novelty -- VI. Integration, Discipline, And The Concept Of Shape -- VII. The Challenge Of Innovation -- Part Four. Psychosocial Implications Of Semiotic Theory -- VIII. Sociatry: Social Psychiatry And The Physician's Calling -- IX. The Notion Of Structure In Communication And Community -- X. Morality And Communicational Process -- Part Five. Language, Mentation, And Reality -- XI. Language: Medium Or Operator? -- XII. Why The Mind Is Not In The Head -- XIII. Paradoxes Of Consonance: A Structural View -- Part Six. Appendix: Papers Of Historical Interest -- XIV. The Relationship Of Certain Aspects Of Personality Development To Language Forms -- XV. Avoidance Of The Particular As A Defense Mechanism -- XVI. Language And Psychotherapy

Frontmatter -- Abbreviation -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- FOREWORD -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Historical Survey -- Chapter 2. The Intentional Thesis -- Chapter 3. Some Pragmatist Approaches -- Chapter 4. The Argument From Real Connection -- Chapter 5. The Argument From Convention -- Chapter 6. The Argument From Non-existent Objects -- Chapter 7. Conclusion: The Distinction Reassessed -- Bibliography

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Concerning Gaia-Semiosic Production of/in/by/for Our Planet -- Editing the Text of a Disease: Semiotic and Ethical Aspects of Therapeutic Genetic Engineering -- The Brain's Models and Communication -- Semiotics and Biosemiotics: Are Sign-Science and Life-Science Coextensive? -- Modeling Life: A Note on the Semiotics of Emergence and Computation in Artificial and Natural Living Systems -- Some Semiotic Aspects of the Psycho-Physical Relation: The Endo-Exosemiotic Boundary -- Organization of Biosystems: A Semiotic Approach -- Nature Semiotics: The Icons of Nature -- Ecogenesis and Echogenesis: Some Problems for Biosemiotics -- Phytosemiotics Revisited -- Evolution and Semiotics -- On the Specificity of Musculoskeletal Symptoms: A Biosemiotic Excursion -- As Signs Grow, So Life Goes -- The Neglect of Subjective Medical Data and the Cultural Construction of Pain Disease-A Cross-Cultural Study -- On Abductions from the X-Ray Screen: The Semiotic Potential of Radiology Illustrated by Two False Suspicions -- Species, Signs, and Intentionality -- 'Tell Me, Where is Fancy Bred?': The Biosemiotic Self -- Biosemiotics: A Functional-Evolutionary Approach to the Analysis of the Sense of Information -- Half of the Living World Was Unable to Communicate for about One Billion Years -- The Social Construction of Alzheimer's Disease -- Biosemiotics, Ethnographically Speaking -- Categorical Perception as a General Prerequisite to the Formation of Signs? On the Biological Range of a Deep Semiotic Problem in Hjelmslev's as Well as Peirce's Semiotics -- Varieties of Semiosis -- On the Emergence of Chemical Languages -- Index -- Backmatter

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Barriers To The Study Of Communication -- Chapter 2 Information And Intelligibility -- Chapter 3 Systems And Structures -- Chapter 4 Communicative Behaviour -- Chapter 5 Signification -- Chapter 6 The Origins And Evolution Of Sign-Types -- Chapter 7 Sense Relations And The Linguistic Sign -- Chapter 8 Deceit And Misrepresentation -- Chapter 9 Scrutiny And Display -- Chapter 10 Culture, Communication And Control -- Chapter 11 Images, Imaginings And Identities -- Chapter 12 Structure And Function In Language -- Chapter 13 Texts And Discourses -- Chapter 14 Approaching Rational Discourse -- Chapter 15 Knowledge And Explanation -- Bibliography -- Index Of Subjects -- Index Of Names -- Backmatter

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD / Wettstein, A. Arnold -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- I. DELIBERATION -- II. THE LANGUAGE OF REASON-I -- III. THE LANGUAGE OF REASON-II -- IV. FACTUAL DISCOURSE -- V. MORAL DISCOURSE -- VI. PHILOSOPHICAL FALLACIES -- VII. REASON -- VIII. CONCLUSIONS AND APPLICATIONS -- APPENDIX I. A BAYESIAN MODEL OF COMMON-SENSE DELIBERATION -- APPENDIX II. LINGUISTIC FORCES AND THEIR RELATIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF NAMES -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS