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Of Cigarettes, High Heels, and Other Interesting Things: An Introduction to Semiotics

Of Cigarettes, High Heels, and Other Interesting Things: An Introduction to Semiotics

Danesi, Marcel

Paperback

Literary CriticismGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1349953474
ISBN13: 9781349953479
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: May 9 2018
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.13 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

This book deals with one the most interesting aspects of human life--the search for meaning. It discusses how the science of semiotics is equipped to provide insight on what meaning is and how we produce it. Why is it that certain people routinely put their survival at risk by smoking? Why is it that some women make locomotion difficult for themselves by donning high-heel footwear? Are there unconscious forces at work behind such strange behaviors? This book will attempt to answer such questions by claiming that these behaviors are meaningful in culture-specific ways. The discipline that studies such behaviors and their relation to meanings is called semiotics. Semiotics probes the human condition in its own peculiar way, by unraveling the meanings of signs, which motivate not only the wearing of high heel shoes, but also the construction of words and art forms.

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