Overview

Critical Global Semiotics: Understanding Sustainable Transformational Citizenship incorporates powerful unifying frameworks which make explicit a developing global consciousness. It explores transdisciplinary ‘common wealth’ through focus on multimodality, media, and metaphor, testing two universally applicable humanitarian frameworks: critical realism (CR) and systemic functional semiotics (SFS). Every day, global citizens encounter an overwhelming host of genres and sub-genres, emergent semantic triangles, evolving semiotic trinity. Embodying philosophy, incorporating active engagement, this book addresses the political economy and cultural politics of diverse domains. Challenging daily drama and performative dharma, 24 analysts from 13 countries present current issues in Anthropology, Architecture, Dance, Feminism, Film, Health, Law, Management, Medicine, Music, Politics, Pharmaceuticals, Sociology, Sustainability Education, and Urban Development. The book’s integrative, unifying foundations will be of interest to researchers, academics, and post-graduate students in the fields of linguistics, semiotics, and critical realist philosophy, as well as to policy makers, curriculum developers, and civil society.

Full Product Details

Author:   Maureen Ellis
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367076986

ISBN 10:   0367076985
Pages:   254
Publication Date:   10 October 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Table of Contents

Introduction. 1. What is a global citizen? A contribution from cognitive semiotics. 2. The Maternal Gift Economy. 3. Sustaining Sadhana: Shifting Significations of Indian Dance, and the Culture Industry. 4. Vision and Division in Performance: A Semiotic Perspective. 5. Political Economy and Cultural Politics of International Trade and Climate Change Negotiations. 6. Citizenship between identity and alterity: a semioethic analysis of the European Constitution. 7. Layers of Meanings in Our Landscapes: Hiding in Full View. 8. Challenges of Architectural Education in Mexico: Facing the Clash between Globalization and Local Realities. 9. The Future of Regeneration: Art and the Politics of Space in the Redevelopment of Nantou Old Town. 10. Semiotics and a Critical Realist Approach to Film Biography. 11. Criticizing and Legitimizing Patent Monopolies: The Struggle over Hepatitis C Medicines in Brazil’s Digital Universe. 12. Emergence and use of the term ‘countering violent extremism’ in the context of Iraq. 13. New-age Child Labour in Turkey: Child Influencers on YouTube. 14. A multimodal social semiotic approach to patient-centred communication: authorial stance in student-designed artefacts. 15. A round peg into a square hole: transdisciplinary sustainability education in a modular mass education system. 16. Next Generation Sustainability Leadership in Global Higher Education. Conclusion

Reviews

The deep and rigorously academic contributions to this collection of essays present some of the issues both from the point of theory and practice. The value of the book to linguists and teachers is that the essays expand the application of language and semiotics as applied to language and symbols and extend it into the arts and social and political organisation. It is a book of essays in which we can follow our interests, be they primarily political, social or linguistic, or all three. The underlying message, however, is clear: we live in a world that is under threat and only by understanding our different societal symbols, interpreting them and recognising the commonalities lying beneath can we move forward to a sustainable future. From Cassidy, M. (2019). Critical global semiotics: Understanding sustainable transformational citizenship (a review). Training, Language and Culture, 3(4), 68-70. doi: 10.29366/2019tlc.3.4.8

Author Information

Maureen Ellis is a senior research associate at University College London and associate lecturer at The Open University, UK.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions