Semioethics as Existential Dialogue

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<P>This collection brings together perspectives on the interplay of communication, dialogue and responsibility, exploring communicative acts of disruption towards 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.</P><P>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, non-indifference, 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 towards the other outside <EM>do ut des</EM> logic and greedy exchange.  This collection highlights the ways in which semioethics considers the ethical implications of the signs that mediate dialogue among pers