Warning Signs The Semiotics of Danger

• Main Author: Danesi, Marcel 1946- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 2022
• Series: Bloomsbury advances in semiotics
• Subjects: Risk communication; Hazard signs; Warning labels; Semiotics > Social aspects; Danger; Signs and symbols > Social aspects
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"Warning signs are all around us. In ancient Egypt, tombs were lavishly adorned with signs and symbols warning of the dire consequences that would befall any robbers and thieves. And yet these signs were often read as provocations and challenges. Why was this? And how could we more effectively...

Table of Contents:

• Perceiving and communicating danger
• Representing and interpreting danger
• The Sebeok report
• Verbal warnings
• Pictorial warnings
• Narrative warnings
• Understanding danger.