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Theory of Semiotics
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2023
A Theory of Semiotics is the theoretical masterwork of the Italian semiotician Umberto Eco, successfully constructing a general theoretical system of …
Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech
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 …
Collected Essays on French Semiotics
Peking University Press · 2025
This book is a selection of articles the author wrote over more than thirty years introducing and studying French semiotics. Written in an accessible …
Chronicles of Critical Social Theory (Volume 20)
Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2026
The 20th issue of *Chronicles of Social Critical Theory* focuses on Maurice Godelier's study of *Capital*. Godelier, a French Marxist anthropologist k…
Schools of Modern Linguistics (Revised and Enlarged Edition)
The Commercial Press · 2025
Language permeates every domain of human life; no activity connected with human social existence is possible without it. What are the main schools of …
Reflections on Literary Narrative
The Commercial Press · 2024
The research in this book is interdisciplinary in character but focuses on formal structure, so the title has been provisionally set as Toward the Str…
The Meta-Structural Foundation of Modernity and Its Critique: A Study of Jacques Bidet's Philosophical Thought
Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2023
Jacques Bidet is a representative and microcosm of the development and transformation of French Marxism in the "post-Althusserian period." Employing a…
When the Speaker Is Spoken: An Introduction to Comparative Narratology
Guangxi Normal University Press · 2022
When the Teller Is Told: An Introduction to Comparative Narratology is a theoretical work on narratology. Narratology is a fairly well-organized disci…
A Study of the Xianxian Dialect in Cangzhou
Zhonghua Book Company · 2024
This book is a single-site survey of the dialect of Xian County, Hebei. The Xian County dialect belongs to the Ji-Lu Mandarin group and shows consider…
The Truth of the Impossible: Images of Lacanian Philosophy (Revised Edition)
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2020
Impossible Truth of Being: Lacanian Philosophical Reflections (Revised Edition) approaches Lacan's philosophy, the French master of psychoanalysis and…
A Course in Folklore Theory
Peking University Press · 2025
This book is a Peking University approved textbook that provides a comprehensive introduction to the theories, methods, and schools of folklore studie…
S.Z
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2026
S/Z is a landmark theoretical work: it is both a development in Roland Barthes's literary thought and a milestone in the so-called transition from str…
The Pleasure of the Text
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2019
A work of aphorisms in a meditative style, The Pleasure of the Text consists of forty-six fragments arranged alphabetically. Barthes discusses desire,…
Criticism and Truth
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2019
Criticism and Truth can be seen as Roland Barthes's manifesto for the New Criticism. The book has two parts: the first vigorously refutes the argument…
Central Problems in Social Theory: Action, Structure and Contradiction in Social Analysis
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2018
Giddens's vast intellectual system mainly includes reflections on the works of classic thinkers such as Marx, Durkheim, and Weber, the reconstruction …
A Study of Alan Dundes's Folklore Studies
Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2018
Alan Dundes was a leading figure in American folklore studies in the second half of the twentieth century. In folklore theory, he established interpre…
A Course in Linguistics (4th Edition) Workbook (21st Century English Major Series Textbooks)
Peking University Press · 2025
The Linguistics Tutorial (4th Edition) Workbook fully takes into account the actual situation of undergraduates, strictly controls the difficulty of t…
Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Knowledge Series Reader: Introduction to Modern Schools of Linguistics
Peking University Press · 2025
Starting from the theories of Saussure, the founder of modern linguistics, this volume traces the mainstream schools of twentieth-century linguistics …
Film Studies in the Analytic Tradition
Communication University of China Press · 2016
The author proposes a brand-new concept of 'Western film theory.' People used to assume that so-called 'contemporary film theory' meant film studies u…
The Philosophy of the Image: Theories of Western Film and Television Aesthetics
Communication University of China Press · 2015
This book offers an overall, clear and precise account of the theories of Western film and television aesthetics. Its interpretations of the theories …