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Semiotics of Friendship: An Encyclopedic Approach

Semiotics of Friendship: An Encyclopedic Approach

Emmeche, Claus

Hardcover

Series: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [Scc], Book 41

General ReferenceLinguisticsGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3111422852
ISBN13: 9783111422855
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Published: Jan 27 2025
Pages: 575
Weight: 2.34
Height: 1.44 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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