Cities of signs: Learning the logic of urban spaces
semiotics, sémiotique, paysage urbain, espace urbain, urbanité, culture urbaine, Hickey Andrew T.
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> Signs exist as fundamental markers of the urban landscape. Whether in the form of street signs offering directions, the airbrushed promises of advertising media or the vandalized détournements of street art, signs pervade urban spaces and provide a tangible 'text' upon which the logics of both cities and ourselves are written. Cities of Signs charts the way that signs exist as key elements of contemporary urban space, and explores what it means to live within these spaces, amongst cities of signs. This refreshing take on the way that urban space is lived and experienced is a timely contribution to the literature in urban studies, sociology and education alike. In decoding the cultural production at play in urban environments, Cities of Signs presents a dynamic approach to understanding how culture is produced and consumed within the cityscape.</div> </div> <b>Andrew T. Hickey</b> is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies and Social Theory at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.</div> </div>
Andrew T. Hickey
Peter Lang
January 2012
143
Ouvrage
Tourists, signs and the city: The semiotics of culture in an urban landscape
, tourisme, culture urbaine, Budapest, semiotics, sémiotique, Metro-Roland Michelle M.
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Drawing upon the literature of landscape geography, tourism studies, cultural studies, visual studies and philosophy, this book offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding the interaction between urban environments and tourists. This is a necessary prerequisite for cities as they make themselves into enticing destinations and compete for tourists' attention. It argues that tourists make sense of, and draw meaningful conclusions about, the places in which they tour based upon the interpretation of the signs or elements encountered within the built environment, elements such as graffiti and lamp posts.<br />
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The writings of the American pragmatist Charles S. Peirce on interpretation provide the theoretical model for explaining the way in which mind and world, or thoughts and objects, result in tourists interacting with place. This theoretical framework elucidates three applied studies undertaken with foreign visitors to the Hungarian capital of Budapest. Based upon extensive ethnographic field work, these studies focus on tourists' interpretation of the urban landscape, with particular attention paid to the encounters with national culture, the role of architecture and the importance of the prosaic in urban tourism.</div>
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<b>Michelle M. Metro-Rola</b><b>nd </b>is Director of Faculty and Global Program Development in the Haenicke Institute for Global Eduction, Western Michigan University.</div>
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Michelle M. Metro-Roland
Ashgate
October 2011
182
Ouvrage
Unfolding the semiotic web in urban discourse
Wasik Zdzislaw, semiotics, sémiotique, discourse, discours, urbanité, communication, linguistique, linguistics, language, langage, espace urbaine
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The main focus of this volume is on urbanity as a discursive way of human life in the city. Discourse is specified here in terms of semiotic codes and processes that link city dwellers as communicating selves into interpersonal and intersubjective collectivities when they create and interpret similar meanings embodied in material bearers. Accordingly, the unfolding of the semiotic web is understood, firstly, as detecting and evaluating the growth and manifestation of the sphere of meaning-bearers or a sequence of meaning-bearing events, and secondly, as identifying and explaining the constituents and aspects of discourse in the light of signs and/or sign-processes that aggregate individual participants of communication into discursive linkages on a lower level and discursive communities - on a higher level of social grouping. Some contributions deal with the discursive properties of human individuals in urban environments, and some others are devoted either to the meta-discourses on the city or discourses in the city.</div>
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<b>Contents :</b></div>
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Richard L. Lanigan - On homeworld and community models of the city: The communicology of egocentric and sociocentric cultures in urban semiotics<br />
Zdzislaw Wasik - Towards an idea of urbanity as a discursive way of human life in the city - developing a conceptual framework <br />
Daina Teters - The city as a space and the space in the city: A semiotic inquiry into the formation of Riga<br />
Zdzislaw Wasik - Roots and varieties of functionalist discourses in the understanding of linguistic functions <br />
Elzbieta Wasik - Linguistic functionalism and the principle of abstractive relevance in the metaurbanist discourse on art and architecture <br />
Richard L. Lanigan - Slugging: The nonce sign in an urban communicology of transportation<br />
Camelia Cmeciu and Doina Cmeciu - New insights into corporate social responsibility: The semiotic act of experiencing a city through street naming <br />
Daina Teters - Imaginary architecture and the verbal description of emptiness: Paths, roads, and streets - a research communiqué <br />
Ioana Boghian - The semiotics of urban space and architecture in literary discourse of the Victorian period <br />
Józef Zaprucki - On the historical interference in the urban discourse - a research communiqué (on the basis of Jelenia Góra and Karkonosze mountains region)</div>
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<b>Zdzislaw Wasik </b>is Professor of Linguistic Semiotics and Rector of Philological School of Higher Education in Wroclaw, Poland.</div>
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Zdzislaw Wasik
Peter Lang
2011
230
Ouvrage
City of signs - Signs of the city. Special thematic section of Culture Unbound
semiotics, sémiotique, représentations, rue, culture urbaine, Stahl Geoff
<div><b>Extract from the editorial by Geoff Stahl : </b></div> </div> This special section of Culture Unbound: “City Signs/Signs of the City” is a collection of essays that deals with the semiotic push and pull of cities, or what Roland Barthes has referred to as the city’s “semantic force” (Barthes 1986: 91). It gathers together articles that deal with the city of signs and signs of the city, in the broadest sense of these terms. Each in their own way works through the city as a repository of signs and resident sign systems, as a signifying vehicle itself. As these essays attest, by virtue of its promiscuous generation of meaning the city has long existed as an object constituted by and constitutive of the modern gaze, a communicative device, social medium, and pole around which a diverse range of practices, meaningful acts and acts of meaning, can coalesce. <br /> <br /> This section of Culture Unbound represents a cross-section of the work being done around urban sign systems in a number of cities around the globe. The authors have presented articles that, directly and indirectly, grapple with what Gottdeiner and Lagapoulos have stated is the value of a socio-semiotic approach to the city, exploring “the articulation between semiotic and non-semiotic social processes in the ideological production and conception of space…” (14). From historical monuments to mobile technologies, from literary to filmic representations, from intimate reflections to theoretical engagements, and from immense outdoor screens to the ground beneath our pedestrian feet, these articles constitute a broad range of possibility with regard to reading the city of signs and signs of the city.</div> </div> <b>Contents : </b></div> </div> Geoff Stahl - Urban Signs/Signs of the Urban: Of Scenes and Streetscapes<br /> Luc Pauwels - Street Discourse: A Visual Essay on Urban Signification<br /> Christopher Kelen - Going Begging: Casino Culture and Its Contrasts as Revealed in the New Macao Poetry<br /> Sophie Esmann Andersen and Anne Ellerup Nielsen - The City at Stake: ‘Stakeholder Mapping’ the City<br /> Christoph Jacke - Locating Intermediality: Socialization by Communication and Consumption in the Popular-Cultural Third Places of the Music Club and Football Stadium<br /> Jason Wasiak - Being-in-the-City: A Phenomenological Approach to Technological Experience<br /> Martin Zeilinger - ‘Quit Stalling…!’: Destiny and Destination on L.A.’s Inner City Roads<br /> Yasmin Ibrahim - City Under Siege: Narrating Mumbai Through Non-Stop Capture<br /> Zlatan Krajina - Exploring Urban Screens<br /> Agata Lisiak - Disposable and Usable Pasts in Central European Cities<br /> Megan Hicks - City of Epitaphs</div> </div> <b>Geoff Stahl </b>is a Lecturer in Media Studies, at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.</div> </div>
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Linköping University Electronic Press
2009
249 - 467
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