Social Semiotics as Praxis: Text, Social Meaning Making, and Nabokov’s AdaISBN: 9780816683451Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota PressDigital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Semiotics -- Social aspects; Discourse analysis; Intertextuality; Nabokov Vladmir 1899–1977. Ada; Focusing on Nabokov's Ada, the author rescues semiotics from terminal formalism by developing a conception of social semiotics that is a form of both social action and political praxis.