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The semiotics of fortune-telling [electronic resource]

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This book presents a semiotic analysis of the linguistic and extralinguistic elements of fortune-telling as part of a larger pragmatic-oriented theory of human communication. The material was collected in Israel, in Hebrew, and parallels are made with other languages and cultures. The analysis is based on dynamic relativism of the multidimensional, transcendental, holistic process of human communication.

Title The semiotics of fortune-telling [electronic resource] / Edna Aphek and Yishai Tobin.
Publisher Amsterdam
Philadelphia : J. Benjamins
Creation Date 1990
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliography and indexes.
English
Content THE SEMIOTICS OF FORTUNE-TELLING
Editorial page
Title page
Copyright page
Table of Contents
Introduction
Notes
Chapter 1. Fortune-Telling as a Semiotic System
1. Introduction
2. Fortune-telling as a meta-semiotic system
3. The discourse element of the meta-system of fortune-telling
Appendix
Chapter 2. The Language of Fortune-Telling
1. The classification of fortune-tellers
2. The data
Excerpt 1. The ""classic"" fortune-teller: Female coffee reader
Excerpt 2. The ""classic"" fortune-teller: Male astrologist
Excerpt 3. The ""Western specialist"": Male palm reader
Excerpt 4. The ""Western specialist"": Female astrologistExcerpt 5. The ""intermediate category"": Female cartomantist and coffee reader
Excerpt 6. The ""intermediate category"": Male palm and coffee reader
3. The omniscopus language of fortune-telling
Chapter 3. Image Building and Establishing Credibility in Fortune-Telling
2. The data and analysis
Chapter 4. A contrastive analysis of astrology and horoscopes
2. Horoscopes as a simple semiotic system
3. An example of a horoscope
4. Astrology as a complex semiotic system
5. Examples of astrological sessionsNotes
Chapter 5. The Visual and the Textual in Cartomancy
2. The cartomantist-client encounter as a semiotic system
3. The semiology of cards
4. The system of language
5. Conclusion
Chapter 6. Fortune-Telling in Literature and the Real World
2. The literary texts
3. The real world fortune-telling sessions
4. The comparison and contrast of fortune-telling in literature and the real world
Concluding Remarks Motivation, Imagination and Magic
NOTE
List of Figures and Tables
Chapter 1: Fortune-Telling as a Semiotic SystemChapter 2: The Language of Fortune-Telling
Chapter 3: Image Building and Establishing Credibility
Chapter 4: A Contrastive Analysis of Astrology and Horoscopes
Chapter 5: The Visual and the Textual in Cartomancy
Chapter 6: Fortune-telling in literature
References
Corpus of Literary Works
Newspapers
Name Index
Subject Index
Series Foundations of semiotics
v. 22
Extent 1 online resource (224 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010707355405171
MARC RECORDS
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