About the Book
This book features the full scope of Susan Petrilli's important work on signs, language, communication, and of meaning, interpretation, and understanding. Although readers are likely familiar with otherness, interpretation, identity, embodiment, ecological crisis, and ethical responsibility for the biosphere—Petrilli forges new paths where other theorists have not tread. This work of remarkable depth takes up intensely debated topics, exhibiting in their treatment of them what Petrilli admires—creativity and imagination.
Petrilli presents a careful integration of divergent thinkers and diverse perspectives. While she abandons hope of attaining a final synthesis or an unqualifiedly comprehensive outlook, there remains a drive for coherence and detailed integration. The theory of identity being advocated in this book will provide the reader with an aid to appreciating the identity of the theorizing undertaken by Petrilli in her confrontation with an array of topics. Her theory differentiates itself from other offerings and, at the same time, is envisioned as a process of self-differentiation.
Petrilli's contribution is at once historical and theoretical. It is historical in its recovery of major figures of language; it is theoretical in its articulation of a comprehensive framework. She expertly combines analytic precision and moral passion, theoretical imagination and political commitment.
Table of Contents:
Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. Communication, Intercorporeity, and Responsibility: For a New Approach to Humanism. 2. Toward a Critique of Identity: On Signs, Bodies, and Values. 3. From Reason to Reasonableness: A Semioethic Approach to Subjectivity. 4. Communication, Language, and Speech from a Global Perspective. 5. Otherness, Dialogism, and Interpretation. 6. Linguistic Production, Ideology, and Otherness: Contributions from Philosophy of Language. 7. Meaning, Metaphor, Interpretation: Modeling New Worlds. 8. Translation, Interpretation, and Communication. Bibliography. Index
About the Author :
Susan Petrilli is an associate professor at the University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy. She is author of many books, including Expression and Interpretation in Language and The Self as a Sign, the World, and the Other.
Review :
-The volume presents a politically committed framework engaged in a critical conversation with major semioticians' concepts and constructs, with emphasis on the construction of identity and otherness and on the relation between signs, values, and behavior. The political thrust of the argument is grounded in the critique of a stable identity and the insistence on listening, hospitality, and restitution in a world determined to erase difference... Recommended.-
--K. Tancheva, Choice
-Language is more than just words. Expression and Interpretation in Language discusses the deeper parts of language and linguistics in respects to culture and philosophy, as well as psychology. Susan Petrilli presents a scholarly exploration of the many aspects of language, from our globalizing world, the clashing of languages, the universal language, and the future of language in our ever changing world. Expression and Interpretation in Language is an excellent pick for community library philosophy and psychology collections, highly recommended.-
--The Bookwatch, Midwest Book Review
-This new volume from Susan Petrilli cements her place at the forefront of contemporary semiotics. In addition to her work as a major semiotic archaeologist and key convener of this disciplinary field, this book once more demonstrates her position as a politically committed theorist whose work on biosemiotics, semioethics, corporeality, translation, dialogue, difference, and subjectivity puts her not just at the cutting edge of semiotics but at the pioneering reaches of current critical thought. Anyone interested in globality and communication in the present moment will need to read Expression and Interpretation in Language.-
-- Paul Cobley, Professor of Semiotics and Communications, London Metropolitan University
"The volume presents a politically committed framework engaged in a critical conversation with major semioticians' concepts and constructs, with emphasis on the construction of identity and otherness and on the relation between signs, values, and behavior. The political thrust of the argument is grounded in the critique of a stable identity and the insistence on listening, hospitality, and restitution in a world determined to erase difference... Recommended."
--K. Tancheva, Choice
"Language is more than just words. Expression and Interpretation in Language discusses the deeper parts of language and linguistics in respects to culture and philosophy, as well as psychology. Susan Petrilli presents a scholarly exploration of the many aspects of language, from our globalizing world, the clashing of languages, the universal language, and the future of language in our ever changing world. Expression and Interpretation in Language is an excellent pick for community library philosophy and psychology collections, highly recommended."
--The Bookwatch, Midwest Book Review
"This new volume from Susan Petrilli cements her place at the forefront of contemporary semiotics. In addition to her work as a major semiotic archaeologist and key convener of this disciplinary field, this book once more demonstrates her position as a politically committed theorist whose work on biosemiotics, semioethics, corporeality, translation, dialogue, difference, and subjectivity puts her not just at the cutting edge of semiotics but at the pioneering reaches of current critical thought. Anyone interested in globality and communication in the present moment will need to read Expression and Interpretation in Language."
-- Paul Cobley, Professor of Semiotics and Communications, London Metropolitan University
"The volume presents a politically committed framework engaged in a critical conversation with major semioticians' concepts and constructs, with emphasis on the construction of identity and otherness and on the relation between signs, values, and behavior. The political thrust of the argument is grounded in the critique of a stable identity and the insistence on listening, hospitality, and restitution in a world determined to erase difference... Recommended."
--K. Tancheva, Choice
"Language is more than just words. Expression and Interpretation in Language discusses the deeper parts of language and linguistics in respects to culture and philosophy, as well as psychology. Susan Petrilli presents a scholarly exploration of the many aspects of language, from our globalizing world, the clashing of languages, the universal language, and the future of language in our ever changing world. Expression and Interpretation in Language is an excellent pick for community library philosophy and psychology collections, highly recommended."
--The Bookwatch, Midwest Book Review
"This new volume from Susan Petrilli cements her place at the forefront of contemporary semiotics. In addition to her work as a major semiotic archaeologist and key convener of this disciplinary field, this book once more demonstrates her position as a politically committed theorist whose work on biosemiotics, semioethics, corporeality, translation, dialogue, difference, and subjectivity puts her not just at the cutting edge of semiotics but at the pioneering reaches of current critical thought. Anyone interested in globality and communication in the present moment will need to read "Expression and Interpretation in Language.""
-- Paul Cobley, Professor of Semiotics and Communications, London Metropolitan University
"Language is more than just words. Expression and Interpretation in Language discusses the deeper parts of language and linguistics in respects to culture and philosophy, as well as psychology. Susan Petrilli presents a scholarly exploration of the many aspects of language, from our globalizing world, the clashing of languages, the universal language, and the future of language in our ever changing world. Expression and Interpretation in Language is an excellent pick for community library philosophy and psychology collections, highly recommended."
--The Bookwatch, Midwest Book Review
"This new volume from Susan Petrilli cements her place at the forefront of contemporary semiotics. In addition to her work as a major semiotic archaeologist and key convener of this disciplinary field, this book once more demonstrates her position as a politically committed theorist whose work on biosemiotics, semioethics, corporeality, translation, dialogue, difference, and subjectivity puts her not just at the cutting edge of semiotics but at the pioneering reaches of current critical thought. Anyone interested in globality and communication in the present moment will need to read "Expression and Interpretation in Language"."
-- Paul Cobley, Professor of Semiotics and Communications, London Metropolitan University
"This new volume from Susan Petrilli cements her place at the forefront of contemporary semiotics. In addition to her work as a major semiotic archaeologist and key convener of this disciplinary field, this book once more demonstrates her position as a politically committed theorist whose work on biosemiotics, semioethics, corporeality, translation, dialogue, difference, and subjectivity puts her not just at the cutting edge of semiotics but at the pioneering reaches of current critical thought. Anyone interested in globality and communication in the present moment will need to read "Expression and Interpretation in Language"."
-- Paul Cobley, Professor of Semiotics and Communications, London Metropolitan University
"This new volume from Susan Petrilli cements her place at the forefront of contemporary semiotics. In addition to her work as a major semiotic archaeologist and key convener of this disciplinary field, this book once more demonstrates her position as a politically committed theorist whose work on biosemiotics, semioethics, corporeality, translation, dialogue, difference, and subjectivity puts her not just at the cutting edge of semiotics but at the pioneering reaches of current critical thought. Anyone interested in globality and communication in the present moment will need to read "Expression and Interpretation in Language"."
-- Paul Cobley, Professor of Semiotics and Communications, London Metropolitan University
