Changing Signs of Truth A Christian Introduction to the Semiotics of Communication

Name: Changing Signs of Truth A Christian Introduction to the Semiotics of Communication
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ISBN: 9780830839667

ISBN-10: 0830839666

ISBN-13: 9780830839667

Edition: 2012

Authors: Crystal L. Downing

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Do you send the wrong signals when you share the gospel?The importance of signs for communicating truth has been recognized throughout the ages. Crystal L. Downing traces this awareness from biblical texts, through figures from church history like John Wycliffe and William Tyndale, to more recent writers Samuel Taylor Coleridge and C. S. Lewis.In the nineteenth century, this legacy of interest in the activity of signs brought about a new field of academic study. In this book, Downing puts the discipline of semiotics within reach for beginners through analysis of the movements key theorists, Ferdinand de Saussure, Charles Sanders Peirce, Mikhail Bakhtin and others. She then draws out the…

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List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Publication date: 5/7/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Signs of This Book


Preface to the Problem


Christ, Culture and Communication


Introduction to the Solution


(Re)signing Truth



Signs of Christ and Culture



Signs of the Times


On the Edge of Cultural Change



Signs of God's Word


Following Jesus



How Signs Work



Identifying Signs


From Rhetoric to Semiotic



Under Signs


Structuralism



Controlling Signs


Ideology and Cultural Studies



Changing Signs of Faith



Signs of Deconstruction


Maintaining the House of Faith



A Place for the Coin


Charles Sanders Peirce



Placing the Coin on Edge


Trinitarian Signs



Communication in a Pluralistic World



Si(g)ns of Communication


(In)tolerance Versus the Gift



Antiseptic Bakhtin


Healing Signs of the Body



Communication on the Edge


A Conclusion


Name and Subject Index


Scripture Index