The Semiotics Of Fortune Telling by Edna Aphek

|a Chapter 1: Fortune-Telling as a Semiotic SystemChapter 2: The Language of Fortune-Telling Chapter 3: Image Building and Establishing Credibility Chapter 4: A Contrastive Analysis of Astrology and Horoscopes Chapter 5: The Visual and the Textual in Cartomancy Chapter 6: Fortune-telling in literature References Corpus of Literary Works Newspapers Name Index Subject Index

The comparison and contrast of fortune-telling in literature and the real world Notes Concluding Remarks Motivation, Imagination and Magic NOTE List of Figures and Tables The real world fortune-telling sessions 4. Fortune-Telling in Literature and the Real World 1. The cartomantist-client encounter as a semiotic system 3. The Visual and the Textual in Cartomancy 1. Examples of astrological sessionsNotes Chapter 5. Horoscopes as a simple semiotic system 3. A contrastive analysis of astrology and horoscopes 1. Image Building and Establishing Credibility in Fortune-Telling 1. The omniscopus language of fortune-telling Notes Chapter 3. The ''intermediate category'': Male palm and coffee reader 3. The ''intermediate category'': Female cartomantist and coffee reader Excerpt 6. The ''Western specialist'': Female astrologistExcerpt 5.

The ''Western specialist'': Male palm reader The ''classic'' fortune-teller: Male astrologist Excerpt 3. The ''classic'' fortune-teller: Female coffee reader Excerpt 2. The discourse element of the meta-system of fortune-telling Notes Appendix Chapter 2. Fortune-telling as a meta-semiotic system 3. |a THE SEMIOTICS OF FORTUNE-TELLING Editorial page Title page Copyright page Table of Contents Introduction Notes Chapter 1. |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-200) and index.

The Semiotics Of Fortune Telling by Edna Aphek