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Publication Date:
22 Sep 1990
Publisher:
Indiana University Press
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Description
This is the most systematic discussion of semiotics yet published. -ChoiceA bravura performance. -Thomas SebeokNöth's handbook is an outstanding encyclopedia that provides first-rate information on many facets of sign-related studies, research results, and applications. -Social Sciences in General
Contents
History and Classics of Modern Semiotics Sign and Meaning Sign - Meaning, Sense, and Reference - Semantics and Semiotics - Topology of Signs: Sign, Signal, Index - Symbol - Icon and Iconicity - Metaphor - Information Semiosis, Code, and the Semiotic Field Zoosemiotics, Ethology, and Semiogenesis - Communication and Semiosis - Function - Magic - Structure - System - Code - Teaching Language and Language-Based Codes Verbal Communication: Introduction - Language in a Semiotic Frame - Arbitrariness and Motivation: The Language Sign - Paralanguage - Writing - Universal Language - Sign Language - Language Substitutes From Structuralism to Text Semiotics: Schools and Major Figures Introduction - Structuralism, Poststructuralism, and Neostructuralism - Russian Formalism, Prague School, Soviet Semiotics - Barthes's Text Semiotics - Greimas s Structural Semantics and Text Semiotic Project - Kristeva's Semanalysis - Eco Text Semiotics: The Field Text Semiotics: Introduction - Hermeneutics and Exegesis - Rhetoric and Stylistics - Literature - Poetry and Poeticalness - Theater and Drama - Narrative - Myth - Ideology - Theology Nonverbal Communication Nonverbal Communication: Introduction - Gesture, Body Language, and Kinesics - Facial Signs - Gaze - Tactile Communication - Proxemics: The Semiotics of Space - Chronemics: The Semiotics of Time Aesthetics and Visual Communication Aesthetics - Music - Architecture - Objects - Image - Painting - Photography - Film - Comics - Advertising
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