Semiotics : an introductory anthology /

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Imprint:Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1985.
Description:1 online resource (xvi, 331 pages) : illustrations.
Language:English
Series:Advances in semiotics
Advances in semiotics.
Subject:Semiotics.
Sémiotique.
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Semiotics.
Semiotics.
Sémiotique.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11102172
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Other authors / contributors:Innis, Robert E.
ISBN:0585030618
9780585030616
0253351626
9780253351623
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Other form:Print version: Semiotics. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1985 0253351626
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Semiotics is the study of the signs and how they interact to communicate meaning. The approach is not simply interdisciplinary, but multidisciplinary. Innis brings together 15 scholars reflecting this diversity: Among those presented are C.S. Peirce, deSaussure, Langer, Levi-Strauss, Bateson, Morris, Eco, Barthes, and Sebeok. The essays concern themselves with varied linguistic questions: What is a sign? Where do they come from? What are their types and kinds? How powerful are they? Innis provides in his introduction a brief statement about each of the authors and how the work selected fits into his schema, later amplified in essays that precede each selection. There is, happily, a subject index, which enables one to track a given topic through the articles. This is not an ``introduction'' to semiotics. Indeed, a satisfactory one does not exist. The articles are demanding but illuminating. (One should prepare by first reading Thomas Sebeok's The Sign & Its Masters (CH, Sep '79.) But the effort is well spent and the bringing together of such a representative cross-section of thought on this emerging discipline is to be applauded.-R.C. O'Hara, University of South Florida

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