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<p> This new volume from Susan Petrilli cements her place at the forefront of contemporary semiotics. In addition to her work as a major semiotic archaeologist and key convener of this disciplinary field, this book once more demonstrates her position as a politically committed theorist whose work on biosemiotics, semioethics, corporeality, translation, dialogue, difference, and subjectivity puts her not just at the cutting edge of semiotics but at the pioneering reaches of current critical thought. Anyone interested in globality and communication in the present moment will need to read Expression and Interpretation in Language . <p> -- Paul Cobley, Professor of Semiotics and Communications, London Metropolitan University

The volume presents a politically committed framework engaged in a critical conversation with major semioticians' concepts and constructs, with emphasis on the construction of identity and otherness and on the relation between signs, values, and behavior. The political thrust of the argument is grounded in the critique of a stable identity and the insistence on listening, hospitality, and restitution in a world determined to erase difference... Recommended. --K. Tancheva, Choice Language is more than just words. Expression and Interpretation in Language discusses the deeper parts of language and linguistics in respects to culture and philosophy, as well as psychology. Susan Petrilli presents a scholarly exploration of the many aspects of language, from our globalizing world, the clashing of languages, the universal language, and the future of language in our ever changing world. Expression and Interpretation in Language is an excellent pick for community library philosophy and psychology collections, highly recommended. --The Bookwatch, Midwest Book Review This new volume from Susan Petrilli cements her place at the forefront of contemporary semiotics. In addition to her work as a major semiotic archaeologist and key convener of this disciplinary field, this book once more demonstrates her position as a politically committed theorist whose work on biosemiotics, semioethics, corporeality, translation, dialogue, difference, and subjectivity puts her not just at the cutting edge of semiotics but at the pioneering reaches of current critical thought. Anyone interested in globality and communication in the present moment will need to read Expression and Interpretation in Language . -- Paul Cobley, Professor of Semiotics and Communications, London Metropolitan University

<p> Language is more than just words. Expression and Interpretation in Language discusses the deeper parts of language and linguistics in respects to culture and philosophy, as well as psychology. Susan Petrilli presents a scholarly exploration of the many aspects of language, from our globalizing world, the clashing of languages, the universal language, and the future of language in our ever changing world. Expression and Interpretation in Language is an excellent pick for community library philosophy and psychology collections, highly recommended. <p> --The Bookwatch, Midwest Book Review <p> This new volume from Susan Petrilli cements her place at the forefront of contemporary semiotics. In addition to her work as a major semiotic archaeologist and key convener of this disciplinary field, this book once more demonstrates her position as a politically committed theorist whose work on biosemiotics, semioethics, corporeality, translation, dialogue, difference, and subjectivity puts her not just at the cutting edge of semiotics but at the pioneering reaches of current critical thought. Anyone interested in globality and communication in the present moment will need to read Expression and Interpretation in Language . <p> -- Paul Cobley, Professor of Semiotics and Communications, London Metropolitan University

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Susan Petrilli is an associate professor at the University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy. She is author of many books, including Expression and Interpretation in Language and The Self as a Sign, the World, and the Other.

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