{"id":18,"date":"2013-07-28T05:35:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-28T05:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/floydmerrell\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2013-08-17T21:32:05","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T21:32:05","slug":"author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/floydmerrell\/?page_id=18","title":{"rendered":"Author"},"content":{"rendered":"

About the Author<\/strong>\"floyd-merrell-\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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floyd merrell<\/b> has a BA (1963 Arizona State University), an MA (1966 New Mexico Highlands University), and a PhD (1973 University of New Mexico). He was a high school teacher of chemistry and physics at Alta Loma California (1964-66) and Albuquerque New Mexico (1966-70), and a professor of Latin American culture and communication theory (semiotics) at Purdue University (1973-2011). He also taught during the summers at the Catholic University in S\u00e3o Paulo Brazil (1991-99), and the Federal University in Salvador Brazil (2000-03). While a professor he wrote academic books for specialists and a string of articles. But he always sensed something was missing. His years of experience in Latin America had left him captivated by the promises and problems of inter-ethnic relations. With a burning desire to think out his feelings along these lines, he decide to try his hand at writing fiction. Finding Himself<\/i>, whose protagonist is a young man with an Anglo father and a Mexican mother, is his first novel. Writing it raised more questions than he bargained for. Consequently he decided Finding Himself<\/i> should be the first of a trilogy, and he is now at work on the second and third volumes. He is retired and living in Las Cruces New Mexico with his Mexican wife, Araceli.<\/p>\n

Academic Career<\/b><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Books<\/b><\/p>\n

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Semiotic Foundations (1982). Pararealities: The Nature of Our Fictions and How We Know Them (1983). Deconstruction Reframed<\/i> (1985). A Semiotic Theory of Texts<\/i> (1985). Estructuralismo y proceso estructurante<\/i> (1990). On Semiotic Modeling<\/i> (1991). Signs Becoming Sign<\/i>s (1991). Unthinking Thinking <\/i>(1991). Sign, Textuality, World<\/i> (1992). Semiosis in the Postmodern Age<\/i> (1995). Peirce\u2019s Semiotics Now<\/i> (1995). Signs Grow<\/i> (1996). Peirce, Signs, and Meaning<\/i> (1997). Simplicity and Complexity<\/i> (1998). Sensing Semiosis<\/span><\/i> (1998). Introducci\u00f3n a la semi\u00f3tica de C. S. Peirce<\/i> (1998). <\/span>Sobre las culturas y civilizaciones latinoamericanas<\/i> (1999). Tasking Textuality<\/i> (2000). Change<\/i> (2000). Signs, Science, Self-Subsuming (Arti)Facts<\/i> (2000). Signs for Everybody<\/i> (2000). Living Learning, Learning Living<\/i> (2002). The Mexicans: A Sense of Culture<\/i> (2003). Sensing Corporeally<\/i> (2003). Complementing Latin American Borders<\/i> (2004). Capoeira and Candombl\u00e9<\/i> (2005). Processing Cultural Meaning<\/i> (2007). Viver Aprendendo<\/span><\/i> (2008). Entangling Forms<\/i> (2010). Becoming Culture<\/i> (2012). A semi\u00f3tica de Charles S. Peirce Hoje<\/i> (2012). <\/span>Meaning Making<\/i> (2013). The\u00a0 <\/span>Afro-Brazilian Art of Coping<\/i> (2013).<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Articles<\/b><\/p>\n

Over 200, in Professional journals.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Conference papers, Addresses, Lectures, Invited talks<\/b><\/p>\n

Over 330 in the United States. Canada, Cuba, Mexico, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Spain, France, Italy, and Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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