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OverviewThis radical reevaluation of one of the foundational figures of semiotics presents Peirce as the theorist of the ""machinery of talk"" rather than of the mind and its contents. The book is a genealogy of Peirce's writings on signs that seeks to account for the changes displayed across forty years of his work. The author's comprehensive knowledge of Peirce's work brings an incisive understanding to his notoriously elaborate and complex theory of signs, at the same time challenging some standard readings in Peirce scholarship. Freadman introduces the postulate of ""genre"" in order to argue that the transformation of materials from one genre in and by the objectives of another can account for the modifications in sign theory observable through the course of Peirce's career. The Machinery of Talk engages on a theoretical level with general issues in semiotics, taking Peirce's writings as a case study through which to investigate the adequacy of a theory of signs to account for the way ""talk"" works. It finds that ""the sign"" is inadequate without the accompanying postulate of ""genre."" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Anne FreadmanPublisher: Stanford University Press Imprint: Stanford University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.458kg ISBN: 9780804747400ISBN 10: 0804747407 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 25 February 2004 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationAnne Freadman is Associate Professor in the School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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