Signs : an introduction to semiotics /

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Author / Creator:Sebeok, Thomas A, (Thomas Albert), 1920-2001
Edition:2nd ed.
Imprint:Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 2001.
Description:xvi, 193 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Toronto studies in semiotics and communication
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4582379
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ISBN:0802036341 (bound)
0802084729 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-186) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface to the Second Edition
  • Foreword: Thomas A. Sebeok and Semiotics
  • 1. Basic Notions
  • The Object of Semiotics
  • Defining the Sign
  • Structural Properties
  • Semiosis and Representation
  • Types of Signs
  • Nonverbal Communication
  • 2. The Study of Signs
  • A Biological Approach to the Study of Signs
  • Messages
  • The Sign
  • Signs and 'Reality'
  • 3. Six Species of Signs
  • General Features of Signs
  • Six Species of Signs
  • Signal
  • Symptom
  • Icon
  • Index
  • Symbol
  • Name
  • On the Being, Behaving, and Becoming of Signs
  • 4. Symptom Signs
  • The Meaning of Symptom
  • The Peircean View
  • Symptoms and the Medical Origins of Semiotics
  • Interpreting Symptoms
  • 5. Indexical Signs
  • Indexicality
  • Features of Indexicality
  • Manifestations of Indexicality
  • The Study of Indexicality
  • 6. Iconic Signs
  • Iconicity
  • The Incidence of Iconicity
  • Features of Iconicity
  • The Study of Iconicity
  • 7. Fetish Signs
  • The Origin of Fetishism as 'Deviation'
  • The Fetish in Psychology and Sexology
  • The Fetish in Semiotics
  • 8. Language Signs
  • The Study of the Verbal Sign
  • Verbal and Nonverbal Signing
  • 9. Language as a Primary Modelling System?
  • Modelling System
  • Uexkull's Model Revisited
  • Language as a Modelling System
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index