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Author Paschalidis, Gregory.

Title Semiotics and Hermeneutics of the Everyday.

Publication Info. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource (319 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Contents Table of contents; ntroduction; chapter 1; the everyday is "insignificant"; 'twelve thousand breakfasts'; 'twelve thousand breakfasts'; the semiotics of situationisturban theory; chapter 2; lifestyle and consumerism; "carving the body"; trivial objects, economyand 'attainable luxury'; everyday fantasy; chapter 3; the clay of the earth; writing under daily constraint(s); subtitles; stilling the flow of signs; everyday practices on the internetand the expansion of crowdsourcedtranslation; chapter 4:; the african quotidian of the ivoriansociety as seen through the eyes of ayaof yopougon.
Aesthetics of everyday lifein two arabmovies:the visibility of the other in greekeveryday life:; the semiotics of subtitling of languagevariations in televisionadvertisements in greece; "any day is a whole story, even whenyou believe nothing's happened."
Summary The linchpin of the momentous paradigm shift that produced the new hermeneutics of everyday life was a focus on people as active agents in various cultural contexts, uses and practices, the merging of the conventional distinctions between the private and the public, the local and the global, the material and the symbolic, and the bridging of the agency/structure divide marking grand historical and cultural narratives. In their place, a wealth of new kinds of narratives were produced out what ...
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
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Subject Semiotics -- Congresses.
Semiotics.
Hermeneutics -- Congresses.
Hermeneutics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Yoka, Lia.
Other Form: Print version: Paschalidis, Gregory. Semiotics and Hermeneutics of the Everyday. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2015 9781443871921
ISBN 9781443879354 (electronic book)
1443879355 (electronic book)
9781443871921