Semiotics of friendship : an encyclopedic approach /
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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston :
Walter De Gruyter,
[2025].
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| Series: | Semiotics, communication and cognition ;
volume 41 |
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| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | x, 562 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 497-540) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783111422855 3111422852 |