33.705, Books: Warning Signs: Danesi

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Subject: 33.705, Books: Warning Signs: Danesi

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Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2022 22:33:50
From: Lian Wilson [Lian.Wilson at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Warning Signs: Danesi

 


Title: Warning Signs 
Subtitle: The Semiotics of Danger 
Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
	   http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
	

Book URL: https://www.bloomsbury.com/warning-signs-9781350178304/ 


Author: Marcel Danesi

Electronic: ISBN:  9781350178311 Pages: 192 Price: U.K. £ 22.49 Comment: ePub
Electronic: ISBN:  9781350178328 Pages: 192 Price: U.K. £ 22.49 Comment: PDF
Hardback: ISBN:  9781350178298 Pages: 192 Price: U.K. £ 75.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9781350178304 Pages: 192 Price: U.K. £ 24.99


Abstract:

Warning signs are all around us. In ancient Egypt, tombs were lavishly adorned
with signs and symbols warning of the dire consequences that would befall any
robbers and thieves. And yet these signs were often read as provocations and
challenges. Why was this? And how could we more effectively communicate
dangers from our world, such as toxic waste, to future civilizations?

This book examines and evaluates the kinds of signs, symbols, narratives and
other semiotic strategies humans have used across time to communicate the
sense of danger. From paleolithic cave art and ancient monuments to the
dangers of nuclear waste, carbon emissions and other pollution, Marcel Danesi
explores how danger has been encoded in language, discourse, and symbolism. At
the same time, the book puts forward a plan for a more effective 'semiotising'
of risk and peril, calling on linguists, semioticians and agencies to face up
our collective responsibilities, and work together to more clearly communicate
vitally important warnings about the dangers we've left behind to
civilizations beyond the semiotic gap.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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