30.422, Books: The Social Semiotics of Tattoos: Martin

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Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 11:47:13
From: Lianna Iwanikiw [lianna.iwanikiw at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: The Social Semiotics of Tattoos: Martin

 


Title: The Social Semiotics of Tattoos 
Subtitle: Skin and Self 
Series Title: Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
	   http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
	

Book URL: https://bloomsbury.com/the-social-semiotics-of-tattoos-9781350056473/ 


Author: Chris William Martin

Electronic: ISBN:  9781350056480 Pages: 224 Price: U.K. £ 102.60 Comment: ePDF
Electronic: ISBN:  9781350056497 Pages: 224 Price: U.K. £ 102.60 Comment: ePUB
Hardback: ISBN:  9781350056473 Pages: 224 Price: U.K. £ 95.00


Abstract:

Why do people put indelible marks on their bodies in an era characterized by
constant cultural change? How do tattoos as semiotic resources convey meaning?
What goes on behind the scenes in a tattoo studio? How do people negotiate the
informal career of tattoo artist? "The Social Semiotics of Tattoos" is a study
of tattoos and tattooing at a time when the practice is more artistic,
culturally relevant, and common than ever before.

By discussing shifts within the practices of tattooing over the past several
decades, Martin chronicles the cultural turn in which tattooists have become
known as tattoo artists, the tattoo gun turns into the tattoo machine, and
standardized tattoo designs are replaced by highly expressive and unique forms
of communication with a language of its own. Revealing the full range of
meaning-making involved in the visual, written and spoken elements of the act,
this volume frames tattoos and tattooing as powerful cultural expressions,
symbols, and indexes and by doing so sheds the last hints of tattooing as a
deviant practice.

Based on a year of full-time ethnographic study of a tattoo studio/art gallery
as well as in-depth interviews with tattoo artists and enthusiasts, "The
Social Semiotics of Tattoos" will be of interest to academic researchers of
semiotics as well as tattoo industry professional and artists.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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