"Interdisciplinary Approaches to Semiotics" ed. by Asuncion Lopez-Varela Azcarate

This volume stresses the contemporary relevance of semiotics. The volume shows how semiotics continues to provide a framework for emerging knowledge traditions without completely disregarding its past.

The introductory chapter shows how the collection of papers emphasises crossings at the material level of physical reality as well as in their semio-cognitive and cultural implications, questioning the delimitation of interdisciplinary borders between the social sciences and humanities and STEM disciplines.
Through explorations in fields as wide apart as ecological psychology and visualisation systems, by finding correspondences between the arithmetic of music and cosmic energies or between the pedagogic significance of images and habitat facilities, as well as using investigation tools ranging from the mathematical representation of concepts to science education, this book addresses multifarious aspects and implications of culture and cognition, standing convincing proof that semiotics is as alive, productive and scholarly useful as ever.


Contents
1 Introductory Chapter: Semiotic Hauntologies of Ghosts and Machines
2 Semiotics of Conscience
3 Mental Models are Compatible with Logical Forms
4 The Art of ‘Scoring’ Cosmopoiesis in Archaic Melic Verse: How the Singing-Poets of the Hellas of Yore Musically Mapped Their Lebenswelt
5 Music and Semiotics: An Experiential Approach to Musical Sense-Making
6 Semiotic Analysis of Computer Visualization
7 Developing Building Information Modelling for Facility Services with Organisational Semiotics
8 Grounding Functional Requirements Classification in Organizational Semiotics
9 An Operational Approach to Conceptual Understanding Using Semiotic Theory
10 Using Signs for Learning and Teaching Physics: From Semiotic Tools to Situations of Misunderstanding