Warning Signs: The Semiotics of Danger Danesi Marcel
Warning Signs: The Semiotics of Danger Danesi Marcel Warning signs are all around us. And yet these signs were often read as provocations and challenges. In ancient Egypt, tombs were lavishly adorned…
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Warning Signs: The Semiotics of Danger Danesi Marcel
Warning signs are all around us. And yet these signs were often read as provocations and challenges. In ancient Egypt, tombs were lavishly adorned with signs and symbols warning of the dire consequences that would befall any robbers and thieves.
And how could we more effectively communicate dangers from our world, such as toxic waste, to future civilizations?This book examines and evaluates the kinds of signs, symbols, narratives and other semiotic strategies humans have used across time to communicate the sense of danger. Why was this? From paleolithic cave art and ancient monuments to the dangers of nuclear waste, carbon emissions and other pollution, Marcel Danesi explores how danger has been encoded in language, discourse, and symbolism.
At the same time, the book puts forward a plan for a more effective 'semiotising' of risk and peril, calling on linguists, semioticians and
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