Signs in Society

Studies in Semiotic Anthropology

By: Richard J. Parmentier

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Hardcover | 20 May 1994

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Richard Parmentier takes up Ferdinand de Saussure's challenge to study the "life of signs in society" by using semiotic tools proposed by Charles Sanders Peirce. He studies how semiotic theory can illuminate highly complex social and cultural practices.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Foundations of Peircean Semiotics	p. 1
Peirce Divested for Nonintimates	p. 3
Peirce's Concept of Semiotic Mediation	p. 23
Signs in Ethnographic Context	p. 45
Transactional Symbolism in Belauan Mortuary Rites	p. 47
The Political Function of Reported Speech	p. 70
Comparative Perspectives on Complex Semiotic Processes	p. 99
Tropical Semiotics	p. 101
The Semiotic Regimentation of Social Life	p. 115
Social Theory and Social Action	p. 157
Comparison, Pragmatics, and Interpretation	p. 159
Naturalization of Convention	p. 175
Notes	p. 193
References	p. 199
Index	p. 210
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