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"Everyday Globalization: A Spatial Semiotics of Immigrant Neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Paris" by Timothy Shortell explores the visual signs and cues that contribute to the construction of collective identity in urban spaces. The book examines immigrant neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Paris, highlighting the complexities and inequalities faced by immigrants in global cities. Shortell emphasizes the importance of understanding how group identities are constructed and interpreted, considering factors such as appearance, dress, and social interactions. The research findings suggest that while discrimination exists, there are also opportunities for mutual tolerance and cooperation in shared urban spaces. The book draws on various disciplines, including human geography, mobility studies, social psychology, and sociology, making it relevant to a wide range of readers interested in understanding urban space and issues of discrimination. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the book "Indigenous African language media: practices and processes" edited by Phillip Mpofu, Israel Ayinla Fadipe, and Thulani Tshabangu. The book explores the relationship between indigenous African languages and the media, focusing on topics such as language preservation, cultural representation, media policy, and audience reception. It includes 24 chapters that build upon the work of Abiodun Salawu, a prominent figure in African language media. The book covers various mediums, including radio, film, and social media, and highlights the critical role of indigenous languages in shaping media practices in Africa. However, the book has a bias towards Nigerian scholarship and case studies, which limits its continental coverage. [Extracted from the article]

The text is a review of two books. The first, written by Zena Hitz, is a reflection on her experience at St. John's College and addresses topics such as self-learning and work as service. The second book, written by Ivo Ibri, is a compilation of texts about the scientist and philosopher Charles S. Peirce. Ibri analyzes Peirce's thinking from different perspectives and relates it to other philosophers such as Schelling, Fichte, and Kant. The book highlights the importance of aesthetic issues in Peirce's thinking and his ability to help rethink cultural misunderstandings and reform our behavior. [Extracted from the article]

With this assertion, Frosh highlights the inherently practical and world-creating capacities of media by recalling two broad meanings of poetics i.e. "fictious and imaginary", I and i "making, creative, formative" (p.10). Also, through poetics, Frosh bridges the gap between digital media theory and semiotics and indeed biosemiotics. In this book, Frosh proposes to analyse digital media poetics under the contours of inattention, phatic connectivity, indexicality, embodiment, witnessing, moral relations. [Extracted from the article]

The article critiques the poem "The Unfortunate Lover" by Andrew Marvell. Topics include the importance of literary critic Michael Riffaterre's semiotic theory of literature to help clarify the structure and meaning of the poem, a discussion of how the poem expands and transforms the phrase fortune in love, and the role of the shipwreck as a crucial plot device in the poem.

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Apart from consolidating Pet"ofi's legacy, the editors of I The legacy of János S. Pet"ofi i , Borreguero Zuloaga and Vitacolonna, include papers continuing theoretical lines proposed by the Hungarian theorist but not developed before his death in 2013. The highest value of I The legacy of Pet"ofi i can be found in the different chapters exploiting Pet"ofi's semiotic model, the most exhaustive in Pragmatics today, according to its editors. Although it contains an extensive range of topics, I The legacy of János S. Pet"ofi i is an excellent introduction to the work of Pet"ofi, and in addition it provides a great number of inspiring research lines to continue the progress in linguistic analysis. [Extracted from the article]

Semiotics has been an academic discipline for over 100 years. According to Zhao, a "sign is the perception that carries meaning" (Zhao, [7], 1); therefore, semiotics is "the study of meaning" ([7], 2). In the third book of his trilogy, I Philosophical Semiotics i ([8]), Zhao develops "exhibition" into a general criterion to distinguish the specific type of cultural text: "only through exhibition can we decide the way we interpret the cultural text" (Zhao, [8], 225). In this regard, Zhao's book should be regarded as a pioneer in the age of new semiotics, because it is, so far, the first monograph that refines "signs" and "semiotics", and thereby reconstructs semiotics at the root. [Extracted from the article]

The article critiques the electronic poem "slippingglimpse," by Stephanie Strickland, Cyntia Lawson Jaramillo and Paul Ryan. Topics mentioned include the use of hermeneutics, affect theory, and semiotics to analyze the poem, explanations of the creation of the poem through digital kinetic verbal-visual collaboration, and the value of visualization.

In chapter three, Adami takes a fine-grained social semiotic analysis of sign-making practices of a butcher shop in Leeds Kirkgate Market exemplifying the diverse socio-cultural and linguistic make up of the butcher's clientele. The chapter calls for a ' I social semiotic ethnography i or I ethnographic social semiotics i of communicative practices' (p. 51) for future research raising salient theoretical and methodological hypotheses. In the volume's final chapter, the editors conclude with "Heterarchic Commentaries", thus offering another possible reading of the seven chapters (3-9) and further steps by employing complexity theory and social semiotics. [Extracted from the article]

A review of Inna Semetsky's The Edusemiotics of Images: Essays on the Art-Science of Tarot with reference to Peircean semiotics, Deleuze's philosophy of difference and the feminist ethics of care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]