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This highly readable book develops a numanistic, and specifically semiotic approach to multiculturalism. It reveals how semiotics provides fresh and valuable insights into multiculturalism: in contrast to the binary logic of dualistic philosophy, semiotic logic does not understand the value of truth in rigid terms of ‘true’ or ‘false’, ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ only. The value of truth resides in meaning, which is a dynamic, evolutionary phenomenon, rooted, nevertheless, in factuality. Drawing on recent developments in biosemiotics, the book presents a theoretical approach to multiculturalism, regarding the lives of people living in multicultural environments. Rather than analyzing political or economic phenomena, it offers a semiotic analysis of multiculturalism and discusses its educational implications. It also invites readers to regard learning as a phenomenon of ecological sign growth and to understand multiculturalism along the same lines. As such, it brings together the life and social sciences and the humanities in a unified perspective, in an approach fitting postmodernism. Developing a postmodern philosophy for contemporary non-experts, which allows distancing from political discourse in favor of a posthumanistic stand, where altruism is seen as an opportunity, not a threat, this book appeals to a wide readership, from scholars seeking state-of-the-art theories to general readers looking for a thought-provoking and enlightening read.

Intercultural communication --- Communication and culture. --- Culture and communication --- Culture --- Cross-cultural communication --- Communication --- Cross-cultural orientation --- Cultural competence --- Multilingual communication --- Technical assistance --- Anthropological aspects --- Semiotics. --- Intercultural communication. --- Biology-Philosophy. --- Education --- Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary. --- Intercultural Communication. --- Philosophy of Biology. --- Philosophy of Education. --- Semeiotics --- Semiology (Linguistics) --- Semantics --- Signs and symbols --- Structuralism (Literary analysis) --- Philosophy. --- Biology—Philosophy. --- Philosophy and social sciences. --- Social sciences and philosophy --- Social sciences --- Social sciences. --- Humanities. --- Biology --- Humanities and Social Sciences. --- Vitalism --- Learning and scholarship --- Classical education --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization

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This unique book gathers articles from the numanistic perspective of multidisciplinarity and innovation, connected by three main theoretical interests or overarching themes: music, semiotics and translation. Offering an eclectic collection of innovative papers that address such topics as culture, musicology, art consumption, meaning, codes and national identities, to name a few, it has a broad appeal across the humanities and social sciences. The contributing authors draw on various schools and methodologies, including psychology, psychoanalysis, social semiotics, semiotic modelling, deconstruction and cultural analysis.   By approaching established themes in new and challenging ways, this highly engaging book has the potential to advance the state of the art in various topics. It appeals to all scholars investigating cultural identity, linguistics and translation, music consumption, performance, semiotic theories and various intersections of these and related topics.

Semiotics --- Human sciences (algemeen) --- Mass communications --- Computer. Automation --- Music --- Theatrical science --- NLP (neurolinguïstisch programmeren) --- performances (kunst) --- theater --- muziek --- semiotiek --- cultuurwetenschap --- interculturele communicatie

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This book explores the interdisciplinarity of semiotics and communication studies, comprising both theoretical explorations and semiotic applications to communication with theoretical bearings. These disciplines have generally been understood as mutually implicit, but there still are many unexplored research avenues in this area, particularly on a conceptual level. The book offers broad insights into the epistemological relations between semiotics and other approaches to communication from perspectives such as sociology, philosophy of language and communication theory. As such, it sheds light on the communication of knowledge. Semiotics is currently enjoying increasing popularity within the humanities and social sciences. Understood as relational logic (Charles Peirce) or hermeneutics (structuralism and poststructuralism), semiotics fundamentally implies certain positions with regard to communication. Because of the generality and conceptual vagueness of semiosis and communication, how one elucidates the other is still an underexplored theme. With some pioneering studies of this relation, the books examines various fields, such as language, code, learning, embodiment, political communication, media, cinema, cuisine, multimodality and intertextuality.

Semiotics. --- Linguistics --- Biology-Philosophy. --- Political communication. --- Communication Studies. --- Philosophy of Language. --- Philosophy of Biology. --- Political Communication. --- Semeiotics --- Semiology (Linguistics) --- Semantics --- Signs and symbols --- Structuralism (Literary analysis) --- Political communication --- Political science --- Philosophy. --- Communication. --- Language and languages—Philosophy. --- Biology—Philosophy. --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology --- Language and languages --- Biology --- Communication in politics. --- Media and Communication. --- Vitalism

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Semiotics --- Philosophy --- Politics --- Biology --- Biological anthropology. Palaeoanthropology --- Mass communications --- Philosophy of language --- Linguistics --- biologie --- communicatie --- filosofie --- politiek --- semiotiek --- communicatiewetenschappen --- linguïstiek --- taalfilosofie

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