36.340, Books: Semiotics of Friendship: Emmeche (2025)

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Date: 24-Jan-2025
From: Katrin Stein [katrin.stein at degruyter.com]
Subject: Semiotics of Friendship: Emmeche (2025)


Title: Semiotics of Friendship
Subtitle: An Encyclopedic Approach
Series Title: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
           https://cloud.newsletter.degruyter.com/mouton
Book URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111423098/html

Author(s): Claus Emmeche

eBook ISBN: 9783111423098
Hardcover ISBN: 9783111422855

Abstract:

A friend should be able to be an attentive listener, which made
semiotician Roland Barthes wonder in his intriguing dictionary of
love, "cannot friendship be defined as a space with total sonority?".
This volume takes on the encyclopedic task - in the sense of Umberto
Eco, where an encyclopedia is a very complex sign - to explore
friendship in detail, not only as a form of love but in all its
complexity as a bond that connects people and forms communities.
Semiotics, the study of signs and meaning-making, is used alongside
insights from a wide range of friendship studies to create a
far-reaching intellectual resonance, or sonority, around friendship as
a central human experience.
As a study of the significance of friendship, it presents findings
from friendship research across the globe, enabling new ways of
thinking about friends. It includes:
- key concepts from semiotics, sociology, anthropology, and other
fields, briefly explained
- major models of friendship from antiquity to contemporary societies
- proverbs and sayings about friendship from Africa, America, Asia,
and Europe
- stories about famous or forgotten friends from mythology, fiction,
and real history
- summaries of research on friendship from selected academic
disciplines
- bibliographical references for further studies

Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics
                     General Linguistics

Written In: English (eng)



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