Multiculturalism, biosemiotics, and cross-cultural friendship: An essay review of Olteanu’s multimodal semiotics of culture
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Multiculturalism, biosemiotics, and cross-cultural friendship : An essay review of Olteanu’s multimodal semiotics of culture. / Emmeche, Claus.
I: Sign Systems Studies, Bind 47, Nr. 3/4, 2019, s. 590-608.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Multiculturalism, biosemiotics, and cross-cultural friendship
T2 - An essay review of Olteanu’s multimodal semiotics of culture
AU - Emmeche, Claus
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - In this essay review of Alin Olteanu: "Multiculturalism as Multimodal Communication: A Semiotic Perspective" ([Series Numanities – Arts and Humanities in Progress 9; Dario Martinelli, serieseditor], Cham: Springer, 2019) I discuss culturalism, multiculturalism, and polyculturalism, and a problematic style of reasoning seen in some contributions to the humanities, a style here called "associative hermeneutics", with no genuine theory construction. As a contrast to this style, I illustrate some challenges of understanding multiculturalism through an example, the question of how to interpret friendship across cultures as seen from the point of view of cross-cultural friendship research.
AB - In this essay review of Alin Olteanu: "Multiculturalism as Multimodal Communication: A Semiotic Perspective" ([Series Numanities – Arts and Humanities in Progress 9; Dario Martinelli, serieseditor], Cham: Springer, 2019) I discuss culturalism, multiculturalism, and polyculturalism, and a problematic style of reasoning seen in some contributions to the humanities, a style here called "associative hermeneutics", with no genuine theory construction. As a contrast to this style, I illustrate some challenges of understanding multiculturalism through an example, the question of how to interpret friendship across cultures as seen from the point of view of cross-cultural friendship research.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - multiculturalism
KW - friendship
KW - hermeneutics
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Multiculturalism
KW - polyculturalism
KW - friendship
U2 - 10.12697/SSS.2019.47.3-4.10
DO - 10.12697/SSS.2019.47.3-4.10
M3 - Journal article
VL - 47
SP - 590
EP - 608
JO - Sign Systems Studies
JF - Sign Systems Studies
SN - 1406-4243
IS - 3/4
ER -
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