Of Cigarettes, High Heels, and Other Interesting Things An Introduction to Semiotics /

• Main Author: Danesi, Marcel (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 3rd ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Culture-Study and teaching.; Communication.; Semiotics.; Popular Culture.; Ethnology.; Sociolinguistics.; Popular Science in Cultural and Media Studies.; Media and Communication.; Popular Culture .; Cultural Anthropology.

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 produce it. Why is it that certain people routinely put their survival at risk by smoking? Why is it that...