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Thu 11 Feb 1993

Books: Semiotics, Stylistics, Textling., Non-verbal Com.

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    SEMIOTICS

    Budniakiewicz, Therese FUNDAMENTALS OF STORY LOGIC 1992. xv, 230 pp. Cloth. ISBN 1 55619 339 4 $55.00 John Benjamins >internet:70461.1236compuserve.com Semiotics Drawing largely on Propp's pioneering work and Greimas' revised version of the same, this book is aimed at consolidating their view of the narrative and extending it through a series of concrete applications.

    Morris, Charles W. SYMBOLISM AND REALITY 1993 xxv, 128 pp. Cloth. ISBN 90 272 3287 3 $52.00 John Benjamins >internet:70461.1236compuserve.com Semiotics Charles W. Morris' doctoral thesis Symbolism and Reality, written in 1925 at Chicago under George H. Mead, is published for the first time in English. This edition includes a preface by Achim Eschbach, an extensive bibliography of Morris' works, and indices of names and subjects.

    STYLISTICS

    Bosinelli, Rosa Marie Bolletieri THE LANGUAGES OF JOYCE 1992 xx, 277 Cloth. ISBN: 1 55619 473 0 $69.00 John Benjamins Paper. ISBN: 1 55619 474 9 $24.95 >internet:70461.1236compuserve.com Stylistics Through selected papers from the 11th International James Joyce Symposium, Venice, 1988, this book brings us the latest work from James Joyce scholars

    TEXTLINGUISTICS

    Martin, J.R. ENGLISH TEXT: SYSTEM AND STRUCTURE 1992 xiv, 620 pp. Cloth. ISBN: 1 55619 115 4 $120.00 John Benjamins Paper. ISBN: 1 55619 485 4 $34.95 >internet:70461.1236compuserve.com Text Linguistics This work is a comprehensive introduction to text-forming resources in English, along with practical procedures for analyzing English texts and relating them to their contexts of use.

    NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION

    Poyatos, Fernando (ed.) ADVANCES IN NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION 1992 xxiv, 412 pp. Cloth. ISBN: 1 55619 121 9 $115.00 John Benjamins Paper. ISBN: 1 55619 491 9 $29.95 >internet:70461.1236compuserve.com Nonverbal Communication The most multi- and interdisciplinary contribution to the field of nonverbal communication in almost twenty years.

    Umiker-Sebeok, Jean, ed. CLOTHING,FASHION AND CONSUMER IDENTITY Semiotica 91-1/2.1992.190pp.Pb DM 83.00; approx US $ 57.00 Mouton de Gruyter >internet:100064.2307compuserve.com Non-Verbal Communication The eight contributions in this special issue of Semiotica focus on fashion and consumer identity as viewed from different perspectives and different disciplines. Thus the topics range from fashion history and style features as nonverbal communication to credit cards and social identity.

    LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

    Perkins, Revere D. DEIXIS, GRAMMAR AND CULTURE 1992 245 pp. Cloth. ISBN: 1 55619 4129 $58.00 John Benjamins Paper. ISBN: 1 55619 413 7 $22.95 >internet:70461.1236compuserve.com Language and Culture Using a worldwide probability sample of forty-nine languages, the author tests an association between culture and the grammatical coding of deictics and finds the statistical correlation to be corroborated to a very significant extent. ____________________________________________________________________________