Bloomsbury Companion to Contemporary Peircean Semiotics

Tony Jappy is professeur honoraire of English Linguistics and Semiotics at the University of Perpignan-Via Domitia, France.

• Introduction, Tony Jappy (University of Perpignan Via Domitia, France)1. Peirce in Contemporary Semiotics, Paul Cobley (Middlesex University, UK)2. Peircean Semiotics in China Today, Xingzhi Zhao (Sichuan University, China)3. Peirce’s Conception of Semiosis, Tony Jappy (University of Perpignan Via Domitia, France)4. A Complex System of Sign Classes for Complex Sign Systems, Priscila Borges (University of Brasilia, Brazil)5. Peirce’s Aesthetic Confession and its Analytical Consequences, Robert E. Innis (University of Massachusetts, Lowell, USA)6. Abduction: The Logic of Creativity, Sara Barrena and Jaime Nubiola (University of Navarra, Spain)7. Abduction as an Explanatory Strategy in Narrative, Genie Babb and James Liszka (SUNY Plattsburgh, USA)8. Logic and Dialogue in Peirce's Conception of Argumentation, Augusto Ponzio (Bari University, Italy)9. A Peircean Semiotics of Technological Artefacts, Bent Sørensen, Martin Thellefsen and Torkild Thellefsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)10. The Semiotic Nonagon: Peirce’s Categories as Design-Thinking, Claudio Guerri (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)11. Pragmatism and Semiotics in Teaching Drawing Today, Seymour Simmons (Winthrop University, USA)12. From Gestures to Habits: A Link Between Semiotics and Pragmatism, (Rossella Fabbrichesi, University of Milan, Italy)13. Peirce and Welby: For An Ethics of the Man-Sign Relation, Susan Petrilli (University of Bari, Italy)14. Peircean Semiotic for Language and Linguistics, Jamin Pelkey (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada)15. Co-localization as the Syntax of Multimodal Propositions: An Amazing Peircean Idea and some Implications for the Semiotics of Truth, Frederik Stjernfelt (University of Aalborg, Denmark)GlossaryIndex

Peirce’s sign theory is famously both admired and feared. This engaging volume manages to both elegantly explicate its fundamentals, and present an exciting range of its current uses. The contributors are notably international and interdisciplinary, reflecting the future potential of this research area, whose fundamental reach is being newly understood.