Semiotics

34 books

The Poetics of Artistic Time and Bakhtin's Chronotope Theory cover
Rating 3.6
The Poetics of Artistic Time and Bakhtin's Chronotope Theory 卢小合 Peking University Press · 2025 The poetics of artistic time is an important area of contemporary literary theory. Bakhtin, a renowned twentieth-century thinker and literary theorist…
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My Teacher Roland Barthes 尚塔尔·托玛 / 赖亭卉 / 江灏 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2021 This book is a tribute to the master, offering an almost intimate, firsthand perspective that recreates the time and space of Roland Barthes's life wi…
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Commentary Upon the Maya-Tzental Perez Codex Gates, William, 1863-1940 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
A Study of Roland Barthes's 'Collège de France Courses' cover
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A Study of Roland Barthes's 'Collège de France Courses' 黄晞耘 Peking University Press · 2025 Roland Barthes's four lecture courses at the Collège de France represent the ultimate stage of his intellectual development during his lifetime and a …
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Symbols · Translation · English Poetry 夏家驷 / 时汶 Jinan University Press · 2018 This book consists mainly of two master's theses—"A Social Semiotic Model of Semantic-Functional Translation" by Xia Jiasi and "Discourse Analysis and…
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Two Kinds of Rationality in Chinese Thought: Divination and Signification 汪德邁 / 金丝燕 Peking University Press · 2025 The author argues that 21st-century China, with its long and rich intellectual tradition and experience, can offer a reference point for the world in …
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Lectures on Narratology Zhao Yiheng Peking University Press · 2026 This book distills the author's more than forty years of reading, reflection, and teaching in narratology. Semiotics studies all texts of meaningful a…
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One Book to Understand the Film: Infernal Affairs 冯硕 · 2025 As a classic of cinema, Infernal Affairs has become a work that legions of fans return to, thanks to its distinctive narrative and profound themes. Th…
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The Limits of Interpretation Umberto Eco / 刘华文 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2025 For semiotics, hermeneutics, communication theory, and media studies, the question of interpretation has always been central: where are its limits? Wh…
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A Study of Intertextuality 武建国 Peking University Press · 2025 This book adopts an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspective, integrating linguistic, social, cultural, and cognitive factors to expound th…
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Research on Musical Intertextuality 黄汉华 Jinan University Press · 2025 Adopting a "glimpse-the-leopard" approach, this book selects four subjects from Chinese instrumental music: new pipa works since the 1980s, the violin…
A Contemporary Semiotic Study of Zhuang Music cover
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A Contemporary Semiotic Study of Zhuang Music 欧阳宜文 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2023 Contemporary Semiotic Studies of Zhuang Music adopts semiotic theory to propose an original theoretical model, "a pot of drip coffee," analyzing and i…
Brand Communication Studies (3rd Edition) cover
Rating 4.0
Brand Communication Studies (3rd Edition) 余明阳 / 朱纪达 / 肖俊崧 Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press · 2022 Brand Communication Studies is a systematic study of the principles and techniques of brand communication, revealing the core of brand growth and deve…
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Rating 3.7
Creative UI Icon Design 童元园 Posts & Telecom Press · 2021 This book is a theoretical and practical tutorial centered on creative thinking in icon design for digital user interfaces. It is divided into two par…
Umberto Eco: Collection of Major Representative Works (12-Volume Set) cover
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Umberto Eco: Collection of Major Representative Works (12-Volume Set) Umberto Eco / 李婧敬 / 陈英 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2021 Umberto Eco is one of Europe's foremost public intellectuals—a novelist, semiotician, aesthetician, historian, and philosopher—hailed as "the contempo…
Scriptural and Hieroglyphic Observations which were foretold in the years of cover
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Scriptural and Hieroglyphic Observations which were foretold in the years of Moore, Francis Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
China and Pottery Marks cover
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China and Pottery Marks Unknown Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
Was the Beginning Day of the Maya Month Numbered Zero or One? cover
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Was the Beginning Day of the Maya Month Numbered Zero or One? Charles Pickering Bowditch Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
The Symbolism of Freemasonry cover
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The Symbolism of Freemasonry Mackey, Albert Gallatin, 1807-1881 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
Selected Writings of Zhao Yiheng on Formal Theory cover
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Selected Writings of Zhao Yiheng on Formal Theory Zhao Yiheng Peking University Press · 2025 One volume in the Chinese Masters of Semiotics Library. Professor Zhao Yiheng has devoted himself for half a century to the study of formalism (semiot…