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Talking Images
This innovative collection offers a holistic portrait of the multimodal communication potential of images from the Upper Paleolithic through to today, showcasing image-based creativity throughout the centuries. The volume seeks to extend the boundaries of our understanding of what language and writing can do to show how language can be understood as part of broader codes, as well as how images and figural objects can contribute to meaning-making in communication. The book is divided into four parts, each exploring a different dimension of the interplay between representation, symbolic meaning, and perception in the study of images, drawing on case studies from around the world. The first par...
Writing from Invention to Decipherment
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Writing from Invention to Decipherment contains a wealth of global scholarship on ancient writing systems from China, Mesopotamia, Central America, and the Mediterranean, to more recent newly created scripts such as the Rongorongo from Easter Island, the Caroline Island scripts, as well as the alphabet. The aim is to dig into the foundations of writing, showcasing the complexities and varieties of scripts, from their invention to the potential decipherment of poorly...
Semioethics as Existential Dialogue
This collection brings together perspectives on the interplay of communication, dialogue, and responsibility, exploring communicative acts of disruption toward a social environment attuned to short-sighted individualism. Semioethics highlights the condition of inevitable entanglement with the other at the origin of sociality, which demands a response to the other based on listening and accountability. The volume introduces readers to the theoretical foundations of semioethics, an emergent direction within sign and language studies which relies upon a commitment to otherness, unindifference, and dialogue. Building on the dialogic approaches of Mikhail Bakhtin and Emmanuel Levinas, chapters, g...
Avant l'écriture
Des empreintes de mains sur les parois de Pech Merle à celles de Yenikapı en Turquie, des girafes gravées dans le désert du Sahara aux pétroglyphes géants d’Hawaï, des temples de Göbekli Tepe aux signes énigmatiques dans les grottes marines du Salento, Silvia Ferrara nous entraîne dans un extraordinaire voyage sur les traces graphiques de l’humanité. Nous voici soudain face à des dessins d’hommes et de femmes, d’animaux disparus, mais aussi face à des figures géométriques et sans légendes. Comment naissent des symboles, des icônes, des signes, des mots ? Qui les crée, et pourquoi ? Et qui les comprend ? Dans ce « saut » vers l’abstraction s’exprime la capacitÃ...
Il salto
“Per introdurvi a quel che avete tra le mani, è più facile usare la litote, figura retorica negativa e pessimista che mette sul chivalà , un disclaimer su quel che non s’intende fare. Questo non è un libro di scienza o d’arte, né un libro di estetica. Non è nemmeno sulle grandi scoperte dell’archeo¬logia, né su quelle di nicchia, anche se molte delle storie che racconterò sono sconosciute ai più. Non è un libro di storia, né di semiotica, né di antropologia. Dentro, intendiamoci, c’è anche tutto questo, ma non ci sono dettagli tecnici, né pignolerie terminologiche, né grandi teorie. Abhorridē per gli esperti, qui c’è leggerezza, escursione e contemplazione, osser...
Der Sprung
Von den farbigen Handabdrücken in der Höhle von Pech Merle bis zu den lebensgroßen Felsgravuren zweier Giraffen in der Sahara; von den riesigen Petroglyphen auf Hawaii über die Tierdarstellungen in Göbekli Tepe bis zu den rätselhaften Zeichen in den Höhlen von Salento – Silvia Ferrara verbindet Archäologie, Anthropologie und Neurowissenschaft, um uns die frühesten Phasen der Entstehung unseres Vorstellungsvermögens und des menschlichen Denkens zu vergegenwärtigen. Die Geschichte der Menschheit hat sich nicht stetig, mit schöner Regelmäßigkeit, sondern in unvorhersehbaren Sprüngen entwickelt. Wir begegnen Zeichnungen von Männern und Frauen und von ausgestorbenen Tieren, abstrakten Figuren scheinbar ohne Bedeutung, dem Gefühl eines gemeinsamen Raums. Wie und warum sind sie entstanden? Wie entsteht ein Symbol, ein Piktogramm, ein Zeichen? Wer schafft sie? Und an wen wenden sie sich? Silvia Ferraras neues Buch ist eine Reise auf der Suche nach den entlegenen und geheimnisvollen Orten, an denen die Menschen begannen, sich von der Dominanz der Realität zu lösen. Sie erfanden Figuren, Symbole, Worte: etwas völlig Neues, Mächtiges, die Zeiten Überdauerndes.
