This collection brings together perspectives on the interplay of communication, dialogue, and responsibility, exploring communicative acts of disruption toward a social environment attuned to short-sighted individualism. Semioethics highlights the condition of inevitable entanglement with the other at the origin of sociality, which demands a response to the other based on listening and accountability.
The volume introduces readers to the theoretical foundations of semioethics, an emergent direction within sign and language studies which relies upon a commitment to otherness, unindifference, and dialogue. Building on the dialogic approaches of Mikhail Bakhtin and Emmanuel Levinas, chapters, grouped into five sections, are all guided by the notion of responsibility toward the other outside do ut des logic and greedy exchange. This collection highlights the ways in which semioethics considers the ethical implications of the signs that mediate dialogue among persons in the social sphere, public and private, sacred and profane. It presupposes the notion that signs are only meaningful in their relation to other signs and the intersubjectivity among persons in dialogue. Chapters also variously examine how the interplay of semioethics and dialogue underpins public life and the existential gifts that sustain a healthy polis.
This book will be of interest to scholars in semiotics, dialogue research, communication ethics, and philosophy of communication.
Edited by:
Susan Petrilli,
Susan Mancino
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Weight: 707g
ISBN: 9781032394312
ISBN 10: 1032394315
Series: Routledge Research in Language and Communication
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 28 October 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
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Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Contents List of Contributors Introduction: The ethical dimension as the I-other intrigue in human semiosis Augusto Ponzio, Susan Petrilli and Susan Mancino Part I: Alterity, Infunctionality and Semioethics 1. The right to infunctionality: The foundation of social relations outside the trap of identity Susan Petrilli and Augusto Ponzio 2. Experience, dialogue and ethics: Peircean reflections on dialogical ethics Vincent Colapietro 3. Vico, common sense, communication: Recommendations for a semioethics program Frank Nuessel Part II: Relation and Communication as Orientation toward the Other 4. Relational logic and semioethics: A Peircean approach Elize Bisanz 5. The voice as a hero of dialogue: Reading Bakhtin alongside Peirce Deborah Eicher-Catt 6. Codes of conduct: Signs of moral memory as symbols of ethical eloquence Richard L. Lanigan 7. Veneration of semioethical imagination: Wavering between the good and evil of De-sign Farouk Y. Seif Part III: Gifting, Caring and Semioethics 8. The gift of the unilateral gift: The epigenetic origins of semioethics Genevieve Vaughan 9. A womanist ethic of care and semioethics: Shared ethical and moral expression Annette D. Madlock 10. Semioethics as an axiology of care for the self-other: A Welbian geneology Zoe Hurley Part IV: Listening in Dialogic Relation 11. Dialogues with and about the past: Semioethics of remembering and forgetting in a digital age Susan Mancino 12. Semioethical Dimensions in leisure: Deepening Dialogic Capacities Annette M. Holba 13. Semioethic Listening: Engagement in ‘the 15-minute City’ Ionut Untea 14. Linguistic Relativity: Semioethics and Climate Change Denialism Marcel Danesi Part V: Dialogue, Responsibility and Love 15. Powerful sacred signs: A semioethical approach to the laying on of hands in the sacrament of reconciliation Fernando López-Arias and Jordi Pujol 16. St. Catherine of Siena: Semioethics-responsive communication Christina L. McDowell 17. Pope Francis’s Semioethical ‘Net’ Work: An approach for Dialogical Conversion Christopher J. Oldenburg Subject and Name Index
Susan Petrilli is a Professor of Philosophy and Theory of Languages at the University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy. Susan Mancino is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Saint Mary’s University, USA.
