Author: Thibault, Paul J.
Title: Social Semiotics as Praxis: Text, Social Meaning Making, & Nabokov's Ada
Description: Minneapolis, Univ. of Minnesota Press, (1991). orig. cloth. 23x15cm, xiv,303 pp, Series: Theory & History of Literature, Volume 74.. Textual charts.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction: The Conceptual Framework of a Praxis-Oriented Social Semiotic Theory; Contextualization Dynamics & Insider / Outsider Relations: The Sociosemantics of Quoting & Reporting Relations; Contextual Dynamics & the Recursive Analysis of Insider & Outsider Relations in Quoting & Reporting Speech; Redundancy, Coding, & Punctuation in the Contextual Dynamics of Quoting & Reporting Speech; Intertextuality: Text, Discourse & Intertextuality; Intertextuality, Social Heteroglossia, & Text Semantics; Subjects, Codes & Discursive Practice: Social Meaning Making, Textual Politics, & Power; The Neomaterialist Social Semiotic Subject; Appendices.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, Social Semiotics, Semiotic Theory, Discourse Analysis, Sociosemantics, Intertextuality, Vladimir Nabokov, Literature,