| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 306 pages :) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Approaches to applied semiotics,
1612-6769 ;
5
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Approaches to applied semiotics ; 5.
1612-6769
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-296) and index. |
| Contents |
""Acknowledgements""; ""Foreword""; ""About time""; ""The historical persistence of total ideologies""; ""A misleading alternative to total ideologies""; ""Games, the alternative""; ""Sex, selection, and culture""; ""The long road to the canonical conception of culture""; ""The common descent of nature and culture""; ""Strategies and Players""; ""Part 1 Canonical games""; ""1. Conflict""; ""1.1History, the speeches, and the funeral oration""; ""1.2 Pericles� problems""; ""1.3 What to praise""; ""1.4 In praise of Athenian culture""; ""1.5 The city in crisis""; ""1.6 The answer before dying"" |
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""2. Coordination""""2.1 Democracy, warfare, and the political system""; ""2.2 The contrast of nature and conventions""; ""2.3 To have a civic morality""; ""2.4 Starting with signs""; ""2.5 Exchanging signs""; ""2.6 From signs to values""; ""2.7 The political sign""; ""3. Contract""; ""3.1 Thorns in Augustine""; ""3.2 The insufficiency of rhetoric""; ""3.3 The importance of wisdom and happiness""; ""3.4 The demise of the classical tradition""; ""3.5 Undoing a labyrinth of doubts""; ""3.6 Among digns""; ""3.7 Which meaning?""; ""3.8 Signs and things""; ""3.9 Knowledge and semiosis"" |
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""3.10 How and where to find the norms""""3.11 The light within the heart""; ""Part 2 Ancestral games""; ""4. Origin""; ""4.1 The anthropological ideology""; ""4.2 Cultural cohesion""; ""4.3 Nature approximately""; ""4.4 Predators and prey in interaction""; ""4.5 Cooperation and conflict within species""; ""4.6 Signs displayed""; ""4.7 A natural typology of human societies""; ""4.8 Toward sex""; ""5. Sex, signals""; ""5.1 The case for individuality""; ""5.2 The case for sex""; ""5.3 Live sex""; ""5.4 The maintenance of sex; The fall of the virgin lesbians""; ""5.5 Winning without winning"" |
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""5.6 Choosing a mate, selecting signs""""5.7 Signs in a continuously drifting world""; ""5.8 Deceptive and honest signalling""; ""5.9 Why not deception everywhere?""; ""5.10 Truth without conventions""; ""Part 3 Individual games""; ""6. Strategies""; ""6.1 Anatomy of the game""; ""6.2 Complex utility""; ""6.3 Adding up to zero""; ""6.4 Pennies for your thoughts""; ""6.5 Ruling the game""; ""6.6 In equilibrium""; ""6.7 Cutting and choosing the slices of a magical pizza""; ""7. Players""; ""7.1 The storm blast came""; ""7.2 A ghastly crew of uncooperative players""; ""7.3 Serving time"" |
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""7.4 Unto others""""7.5 The tit-for-tat blues""; ""7.6 Someone�s gotta give""; ""7.7 It is not yellow; it is Chicken""; ""7.8 Signs of asymmetry and asymmetric players""; ""7.9 Types, tokens, and inflated signs""; ""Afterword""; ""The cause of conflict between cultures""; ""Sexualized culture""; ""The traditional fallacies of cultural semiotics""; ""The future of cultural semiotics""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Index"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Communication and culture.
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Communication and culture. |
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Semiotics.
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Semiotics. |
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Game theory.
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Game theory. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Neiva, Eduardo. Communication Games : The Semiotic Foundation of Culture. Hawthorne : De Gruyter Mouton, ©2011 9783110190465 |
| ISBN |
9783110897753 (electronic book) |
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311089775X (electronic book) |
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311019046X (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9783110190465 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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