Multiculturalism as Multimodal Communication A Semiotic Perspective /

• Main Author: Olteanu, Alin (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Numanities - Arts and Humanities in Progress, 9
• Subjects: Semiotics.; Intercultural communication.; Biology-Philosophy.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary.; Intercultural Communication.; Philosophy of Biology.; Philosophy of Education.

This highly readable book develops a numanistic, and specifically semiotic approach to multiculturalism. It reveals how semiotics provides fresh and valuable insights into multiculturalism: in contrast to the binary logic of dualistic philosophy, semiotic logic does not understand the value of truth...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. A Peircean framework for Multiculturalism
• Chapter 3. Biosemiotics and Cultural Plurality
• Chapter 4. Ecosemiotics, learning and sharing
• Chapter 5. A Semiotic Theory of Multiculturalism
• Chapter 6. Practical implications
• Chapter 7. Concluding remarks.