The Semiotics of Fortune-tellingThis 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. |
Contents
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| 7 | |
Chapter 2 The Language of FortuneTelling
| 37 |
Chapter 3 Image Building and Establishing Credibility in FortuneTelling
| 65 |
Chapter 4 A contrastive analysis of astrology and horoscopes
| 97 |
Chapter 5 The Visual and the Textual in Cartomancy
| 125 |
Chapter 6 FortuneTelling in Literature and the Real World
| 153 |
Concluding Remarks Motivation Imagination and Magic | 175 |
List of Figures and Tables | 183 |
References | 187 |
Corpus of Literary Works | 200 |
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