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Semiotic Investigations: Towards an Effective Semiotics

Alec McHoul

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements

Part One: The Limits and Media of Semiosis
•       1. Signifying History
•       2. Framing Photographs
•       3. Culture and Community
•       4. Signs and Not-signs
•       5. Reading Practices

Part Two: From Formalism and Ethnomethodology to Ethics
•       6. Reflexivity, Problems and Solutions
•       7. Ethnogenealogy: Public Methods for Private Practices
•       8. Intelligibility, Actionability and Historicity
•       9. Indexicality's Horizon of Possibility
•       10. Signing in the Rain
•       11. Closing off Openings
•       12. Gatekeeping Logic
•       13. Converse Communities
•       14. Analytic Ethics

Notes

Works Cited

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