Marcel Danesi is Director of the Program in Semiotics and Communication Theory and Professor of Linguistic Anthropology at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is the author of many books, including Of Cigarettes, High Heels, and Other Interesting Things; X-Rated! The Power of Mythic Symbolism in Popular Culture; and The History of the Kiss: The Birth of Popular Culture. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1998, founded a research center (Center for Communication and Information Sciences), and is the Editor in Chief of Semiotica. Danesi »s work has been featured in the New York Times, Toronto Star, and Psychology Today, among other print publications, and he has been a guest on broadcast outlets such as National Public Radio.
102 Ebooks par Marcel Danesi
Marcel Danesi: Of Cigarettes, High Heels, and Other Interesting Things
Why do people routinely risk their health by smoking cigarettes? Why do some females make walking a struggle by donning high heels? In a fully updated edition, the author attempts to answer such ques …
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Marcel Danesi: X-Rated!
Many attack pop culture as a crude ‘sexual’ and ‘celebrity-based’ culture that is purportedly bringing about the end of moral values. Renowned semiotician Marcel Danesi adds his signature insight to …
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Marcel Danesi: Increase Your Puzzle IQ
Learn how to take the ‘tease’ out of brainteasers, and increase your puzzle IQ with this eye-opening guide to solving puzzles. Revealing the basic principles and strategies of cracking logic problems …
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€15.99
Marcel Danesi: The Liar Paradox and the Towers of Hanoi
A walk through history’s most mind-boggling puzzles Ever since the Sphinx asked his legendary riddle of Oedipus, riddles, conundrums, and puzzles of all sizes have kept humankind perplexed and amused …
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€15.99
Marcel Danesi & Antonio Nicaso: Made Men
The novel The Godfather (1969) and the movie of the same name (1972) entrenched the myth of the Mafiosi as valiant knights, men of honor, and defenders of the traditional concept of family. As a resu …
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€60.72
Marcel Danesi: Concise Dictionary of Popular Culture
The Concise Dictionary of Popular Culture covers the theories, media forms, fads, celebrities and icons, genres, and terms of popular culture. From Afropop and Anime to Oprah Winfrey and the X-Files, …
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€162.59
Marcel Danesi: Why It Sells
Advertising plays a key role in defining contemporary culture worldwide, creating a variety of meanings in the minds of consumers. Intrigued by this process, Marcel Danesi-an entertaining and insight …
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€120.97
Marcel Danesi: The Semiotics of Love
The Semiotics of Love brings together work on early symbolism, literary practices, and contemporary communication on the theme of romance and the idea of love to forge an understanding of the semioti …
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€24.60
Marcel Danesi: Learning and Teaching Mathematics in The Global Village
This book provides a fundamental reassessment of mathematics education in the digital era. It constitutes a new mindset of how information and knowledge are processed by introducing new interconnecti …
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€53.49
Marcel Danesi: Ahmes’ Legacy
This book looks at classic puzzles from the perspective of their structures and what they tell us about the brain. It uses the work on the neuroscience of mathematics from Dehaene, Butterworth, …
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€96.29
Marcel Danesi: Practice Makes Perfect Advanced Italian Grammar
More practice to expand your Italian skills The Practice Makes Perfect series has helped thousands learn the basics of Italian, from vocabulary to prepositions, verbs, and beyond. Now this innovative …
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€25.54
Marcel Danesi: Practice Makes Perfect: Italian Conversation
Practice the art of conversation in Italian!Want to strike up a conversation with a native Italian speaker but are nervous that you’re not ready? Practice Makes Perfect: Italian Conversation helps yo …
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€19.69
Marcel Danesi: Liar Paradox and the Towers of Hanoi
A walk through history’s most mind-boggling puzzles Ever since the Sphinx asked his legendary riddle of Oedipus, riddles, conundrums, and puzzles of all sizes have kept humankind perplexed and amused …
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€15.42
Marcel Danesi: Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian Grammar, Premium Second Edition
Build up your Italian grammar skills and communicate with ease The only way to boost your confidence in a second language is to practice, practice, practice. From the present tense of regular verbs t …
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€20.69
Marcel Danesi: Italian Demystified, Premium 3rd Edition
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€37.12
Marcel Danesi: Practice Makes Perfect: Italian Conversation, Premium Second Edition
Master conversation with this bestselling workbook for learners of Italian Practice Makes Perfect: Italian Conversation is the go-to guide for expanding your conversational fluency. Organized into 10 …
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€20.65
Marcel Danesi: Dictionary of Media and Communications
Accessible to wide range of readers from student to lay people, this authoritative reference provides a complete listing of media concepts, figures, and techniques with illustrations and historical c …
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€64.20
Marcel Danesi: Dictionary of Media and Communications
Accessible to wide range of readers from student to lay people, this authoritative reference provides a complete listing of media concepts, figures, and techniques with illustrations and historical c …
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€63.72
Marcel Danesi: Of Cigarettes, High Heels, and Other Interesting Things
This book deals with one the most interesting aspects of human life-the search for meaning. It discusses how the science of semiotics is equipped to provide insight on what meaning is and how we prod …
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€42.55
Marcel Danesi: Cool
The image of restless, apathetic, mopish, awkward teenagers who listen to loud, screeching music when they are not on the phone, and who insist on dressing, wearing their hair, and behaving exactly l …
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€52.65
Marcel Danesi: Crossword Italian!
Designed to teach the basic elements of the Italian language, this book is a breakthrough in the field of language studies. Its easy, stimulating, and enjoyable approach to learning Italian will bene …
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€34.56
Marcel Danesi: Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics, Media, and Communication
Semiotics, Media Studies and Communication Studies are three closely interlinked fields. Briefly stated, Semiotics, the science of signs, looks at how humans search for and construct meaning; Communi …
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€36.84
Marcel Danesi: Forever Young
The excessive worship of adolescence and its social empowerment by adult institutions is the deeply rooted cause of a serious cultural malaise. So argues semiotician Marcel Danesi in Forever Young, a …
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€82.59
Gianrenzo P. Clivio & Marcel Danesi: Sounds, Forms, and Uses of Italian
Here, at last, is a text on Italian linguistics that clearly presents all of the key concepts in a form designed specifically for English-speaking students. This unique book will fill a major gap in …
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€36.02
Marcel Danesi: Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics, Media, and Communication
Semiotics, Media Studies and Communication Studies are three closely interlinked fields. Briefly stated, Semiotics, the science of signs, looks at how humans search for and construct meaning; Communi …
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€37.40
Marcel Danesi: Encyclopedia of Media and Communication
The first comprehensive encyclopedia for the growing fields of media and communication studies, the Encyclopedia of Media and Communication is an essential resource for beginners and seasoned academi …
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€55.33
Marcel Danesi: Encyclopedia of Media and Communication
The first comprehensive encyclopedia for the growing fields of media and communication studies, the Encyclopedia of Media and Communication is an essential resource for beginners and seasoned academi …
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€54.82
Marcel Danesi & Renzo Titone: Applied Psycholinguistics
The principles of language learning and teaching are presented for language teachers, especially teachers of second languages. The authors synthesize and explain the main issues connected with the ap …
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€32.12
Marcel Danesi: Language and Mathematics
This book explores the many disciplinary and theoretical links between language, linguistics, and mathematics. It examines trends in linguistics, such as structuralism, conceptual metaphor theory, an …
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€169.95
Marcel Danesi: Language and Mathematics
This book explores the many disciplinary and theoretical links between language, linguistics, and mathematics. It examines trends in linguistics, such as structuralism, conceptual metaphor theory, an …
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€190.77
Michael Arntfield & Marcel Danesi: Murder in Plain English
This is the first book to examine murder through the written word-not only the writings of the killers themselves, but also the story of murder as told in literary fiction and the crime dramas that a …
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€21.83
Marcel Danesi & Andrea Rocci: Global Linguistics
The book provides an introduction to an interdisciplinary field of inquiry that can be called ‘global linguistics’ (GL). GL emerges to tackle the ever-growing phenomenon of intercultural communicatio …
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€149.95
Marcel Danesi: Second Language Teaching
Second Language Teaching, A View from the Right Side of the Brain: -offers a practical introduction to the use of neuroscience to teach second languages;-provides information on the relation between …
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€114.08
Marcel Danesi: Art of the Lie
This book shows how language can be used strategically to manipulate beliefs. From Machiavelli to P. T. Barnum to Donald Trump, many have perfected the art of strategically using language to gain the …
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€23.19
Marcel Danesi: Quick and Easy
Food, no matter of what kind, is a substance required for survival. Stripped of any cultural meanings, it is a primary means of biological nourishment and sustenance. But in a cultural context, the t …
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€139.77
Marcel Danesi: Conceptual Fluency Theory and the Teaching of Foreign Languages
Marcel Danesi is Full professor of Linguistic Anthropology and Semiotics at the University of Toronto. He has written extensively in both areas and is known in applied linguistics for having develope …
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€266.84
Josephine A Gonzalez: U.S.-China Trade
U.S.-China economic ties have expanded substantially over the past three decades. Total U.S.-China trade rose from $5 billion in 1981 to an estimated $503 billion in 2011, and is projected to reach $ …
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€244.41
Amber C Rose & Oscar A. Williams: Nuclear Weapons
Most analysts consider nonstrategic weapons to be shorter-range delivery systems with lower yield warheads that might be used to attack troops or facilities on the battlefield. These weapons have a l …
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€244.00
Stacy A. Costa & Marcel Danesi: Mathematics (Education) in the Information Age
This book brings together ideas from experts in cognitive science, mathematics, and mathematics education to discuss these issues and to present research on how mathematics and its learning and teach …
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Marcel Danesi: The Curious History of the Riddle
Part history book, part puzzle book, The Curious History of the Riddle is fully illustrated with over 250 riddles interspersed throughout the text for solving, so get ready to put on your thinking ca …
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€19.99
Simone Casini: Language Creativity
In Language Creativity: A Semiotic Perspective, Simone Casini aims to frame the concept of creativity within a linguistic dimension by developing a theoretical reflection with constant references to …
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€38.41
Marcel Danesi: Linguistic Relativity Today
This is the first textbook on the linguistic relativity hypothesis, presenting it in user-friendly language, yet analyzing all its premises in systematic ways. The hypothesis claims that there is an …
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€48.61
Marcel Danesi: Linguistic Relativity Today
This is the first textbook on the linguistic relativity hypothesis, presenting it in user-friendly language, yet analyzing all its premises in systematic ways. The hypothesis claims that there is an …
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€48.79
Marcel Danesi & Antonio Nicaso: Organized Crime
This book aims to describe and demystify what makes criminal gangs so culturally powerful. It examines their codes of conduct, initiation rites, secret communications methods, origin myths, symbols, …
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€45.97
Marcel Danesi & Antonio Nicaso: Organized Crime
This book aims to describe and demystify what makes criminal gangs so culturally powerful. It examines their codes of conduct, initiation rites, secret communications methods, origin myths, symbols, …
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€45.89
Marcel Danesi: Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian All-in-One
Get six times the language-learning expertise for the price of one book!More than two million students have turned to the Practice Makes Perfect series for a trusted guide to help build their languag …
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€43.78
Marcel Danesi: Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian Grammar, Premium Third Edition
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Marcel Danesi: Quest for Meaning
Dating back to antiquity, semiotics is both a "technique" and a "science" that aims to understand the nature of meaning. An academic discipline in its own right, semiotics uses si …
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€32.09
Marcel Danesi: Language, Society, and New Media
This book presents an interdisciplinary approach to the scientific study of the relation between language and society, language and culture, language and mind. It integrates frameworks from socioling …
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€48.18
Marcel Danesi: Language, Society, and New Media
This book presents an interdisciplinary approach to the scientific study of the relation between language and society, language and culture, language and mind. It integrates frameworks from socioling …
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€48.79
Marcel Danesi: An Anthropology of Puzzles
An Anthropology of Puzzles argues that the human brain is a ‘puzzling organ’ which allows humans to literally solve their own problems of existence through puzzle format. Noting the presence of puzzl …
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€51.07
Marcel Danesi: Quest for Meaning
Dating back to antiquity, semiotics is both a "technique" and a "science" that aims to understand the nature of meaning. An academic discipline in its own right, semiotics uses si …
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€32.07
Marcel Danesi: Pythagoras’ Legacy
As the famous Pythagorean statement reads, ‘Number rules the universe’, and its veracity is proven in the many mathematical discoveries that have accelerated the development of science, engineering, …
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€34.80
Marcel Danesi: Pythagoras’ Legacy
As the famous Pythagorean statement reads, ‘Number rules the universe’, and its veracity is proven in the many mathematical discoveries that have accelerated the development of science, engineering, …
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€31.62
Marcel Danesi: An Anthropology of Puzzles
An Anthropology of Puzzles argues that the human brain is a ‘puzzling organ’ which allows humans to literally solve their own problems of existence through puzzle format. Noting the presence of puzzl …
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€51.46
Marcel Danesi: Blending Logic and Imagination: The Puzzle Art of Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll is known mainly for his children’s novels and poems. Throughout these ingenious works he interspersed riddles, math and logic games, and a host of other puzzles, reflecting his interest …
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€122.08
Marcel Danesi: Memes, Emojis, and Other Digital Signs: A Semiotic Perspective
Semiotics is being applied more and more to the study of digital media, which have made the production and use of new sign forms a daily event-forms that seem to evanesce almost as quickly as they em …
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€105.51
Marcel Danesi: Metaphor, Riddles, and the Origin of Language
Scientific evidence for the origin of speech is abundant, but evidence for the origin of language as separate from speech as a naming system remains speculative. What evidence can be utilized that wi …
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€124.36
Marcel Danesi: Practice Makes Perfect: Italian Conversation, Premium Third Edition
Learn to speak Italian as fluently as Italians do-an indispensable guide, now with a timely new chapter on remote communication Whether you’re learning Italian now at an intermediate level or looking …
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€23.11
Marcel Danesi & Yair Neuman: Using AI for Dialoguing with Texts
This concise volume offers an accessible introduction to state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) language models, providing a platform for their use in textual interpretation across the humanit …
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€25.69
Marcel Danesi & Yair Neuman: Using AI for Dialoguing with Texts
This concise volume offers an accessible introduction to state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) language models, providing a platform for their use in textual interpretation across the humanit …
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€25.59
Marcel Danesi: Apocalyptic Visions: Pandemics in Literature, Art, and the Movies
Pandemics and other catastrophic events have been the stimulus not only for inventions and discoveries in science, but also in literary modes of understanding the world. The latter were forged as &qu …
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€105.31
Marcel Danesi: Handbook of Cognitive Mathematics
Cognitive mathematics provides insights into how mathematics works inside the brain and how it is interconnected with other faculties through so-called blending and other associative processes. This …
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€833.86
Marcel Danesi & Antonio Nicaso: Dark Mafia
This book explores how organized crime has adapted and evolved in sync with ever-expanding technologies to update its popular image and to conduct its covert operations. It shows how organized crime …
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€46.14
Marcel Danesi & Antonio Nicaso: Dark Mafia
This book explores how organized crime has adapted and evolved in sync with ever-expanding technologies to update its popular image and to conduct its covert operations. It shows how organized crime …
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€46.21
Marcel Danesi: Politics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories
Politics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories: A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective shows how language influences mechanisms of cognition, perception, and belief, and by extension its power to manipulate thou …
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€48.97
Marcel Danesi: Politics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories
Politics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories: A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective shows how language influences mechanisms of cognition, perception, and belief, and by extension its power to manipulate thou …
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€48.63
Marcel Danesi: Poetic Logic and the Origins of the Mathematical Imagination
This book treats eighteenth-century Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico’s theory of poetic logic for the first time as the originating force in mathematics, transforming instinctive counting and sp …
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€128.39
Marcel Danesi: Total Brain Workout
Have fun and flex your mental muscle with brainteasers, word searches, cryptograms, optical illusions, sudoku, frameworks, logic puzzles, trivia and more.Did you know that different parts of your bra …
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€2.57
Marcel Danesi: Extreme Brain Workout
Have fun and power up your mind with these puzzles designed to boost your verbal and logic skills, plus test your IQ.Extreme Brain Workout is a series of puzzles designed to engage the core parts of …
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€2.56
Marcel Danesi: Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian All-in-One, Premium Second Edition
All the practice and instruction you need to communicate effectively in Italian-now with an enhanced app featuring text-to-speech!If you are a beginner to intermediate Italian language learner, getti …
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€51.36
Marcel Danesi: Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian Grammar, Premium Fourth Edition
All the practice and instruction you need to communicate effectively in Italian-now with an enhanced app featuring text-to-speech!If you are a beginner to intermediate Italian language learner, getti …
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€28.31
Marcel Danesi: AI in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching: Theory and Practice
The primary objective of this book concerns how to bring foreign language learning and teaching into the ever-expanding world of AI culture, so as to make the language learning experience consistent …
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€122.12
Marcel Danesi: AI-Generated Popular Culture
This book gives a general overview of Artificial Intelligence as it is impacting on the world of the arts and culture. What is AI-generated pop culture? What does a movie, a musical work, a novel, or …
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€117.69
John Colaneri & Marcel Danesi: 501 Italian Verbs, Sixth Edition
Choose Barron’s for language learning–a trusted resource for over 50 years!This edition of 501 Italian Verbs provides language learners with fingertip access to a carefully curated selection of the …
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€12.90
Marcel Danesi: Semiotics with a Conscience
Demonstrating how semiotic theory and method can be applied to decoding false representations and dangerous discourses, this book explores how semiotics can be used as a potentially powerful science …
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€109.80
Marcel Danesi: Semiotics with a Conscience
Demonstrating how semiotic theory and method can be applied to decoding false representations and dangerous discourses, this book explores how semiotics can be used as a potentially powerful science …
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€109.58
Marcel Danesi: Pseudology
In an age where fake news, conspiracy theories, and outright lies by political and cultural leaders are commonplace, we may be becoming accustomed to lying, or worse, even immune to it. Pseudology un …
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€46.21
Marcel Danesi: Semiotics of Emoji
Shortlisted for the BAAL Book Prize 2017Emoji have gone from being virtually unknown to being a central topic in internet communication. What is behind the rise and rise of these winky faces, clinkin …
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€23.06
Marcel Danesi: Understanding Media Semiotics
Media semiotics is a valuable method of focusing on the hidden meanings within media texts. This new edition brings Understanding Media Semiotics fully up to date and is written for students of the m …
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€38.17
Marcel Danesi: Understanding Media Semiotics
Media semiotics is a valuable method of focusing on the hidden meanings within media texts. This new edition brings Understanding Media Semiotics fully up to date and is written for students of the m …
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€37.86
Marcel Danesi: Understanding Nonverbal Communication
The human body is a primary source of meaning-making, with the body conveying over two-thirds of our messages. But how can we understand these physical communicative cues? How are they being expresse …
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€37.11
Marcel Danesi: Understanding Nonverbal Communication
The human body is a primary source of meaning-making, with the body conveying over two-thirds of our messages. But how can we understand these physical communicative cues? How are they being expresse …
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€36.84
Marcel Danesi: Warning Signs
Warning signs are all around us. In ancient Egypt, tombs were lavishly adorned with signs and symbols warning of the dire consequences that would befall any robbers and thieves. And yet these signs w …
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€29.95
Marcel Danesi: Warning Signs
Warning signs are all around us. In ancient Egypt, tombs were lavishly adorned with signs and symbols warning of the dire consequences that would befall any robbers and thieves. And yet these signs w …
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€30.22
Marcel Danesi: Pseudology
In an age where fake news, conspiracy theories, and outright lies by political and cultural leaders are commonplace, we may be becoming accustomed to lying, or worse, even immune to it. Pseudology un …
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€46.25
Marcel Danesi: Semiotics of Emoji
Shortlisted for the BAAL Book Prize 2017Emoji have gone from being virtually unknown to being a central topic in internet communication. What is behind the rise and rise of these winky faces, clinkin …
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€22.95
