Handbook of Semiotics"This is the most systematic discussion of semiotics yet published. - "Choice". "A bravura performance..." - Thomas Sebeok. "Mapping a discipline as new as semiotics is more than an exercise in compilation and description. It involves substantive choices regarding the taxonomy and dimensions of the filed as a whole. N'th succeeds admirably in this formidable undertaking." - "Library Journal". "N'th'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". "N'th's book is a remarkable survey of the incredibly broad field of semiotics...For those who desire a comprehensive survey of this diverse field, N'th's book is unsurpassed." - "Library Quarterly". N'th's ambitious work covers the field of semiotics from Aesthetics to Zoosemiotics. Organized in eight parts, it contains sixty-five encyclopedic articles, a consolidated bibliography of almost 3,000 titles, an index of names, and an index of terms." - COPAC. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 3 |
History and Classics of Modern Semiotics | 9 |
History of Semiotics | 11 |
Peirce | 39 |
Morris | 48 |
Saussure | 56 |
Hjelmslev | 64 |
Jakobson | 74 |
Metaphor | 128 |
Information | 134 |
Semiosis Code and the Semiotic Field | 145 |
Language and LanguageBased Codes | 225 |
Schools | 293 |
Russian Formalism Prague School Soviet Semiotics | 307 |
Greimass Structural Semantics and Text Semiotic Project | 314 |
Kristevas Semanalysis | 321 |
Sign and Meaning | 77 |
Sign | 79 |
Meaning Sense and Reference | 92 |
Semantics and Semiotics | 103 |
Sign Signal Index | 107 |
Symbol | 115 |
Icon and Iconicity | 121 |
The Field | 327 |
Nonverbal Communication | 385 |
Aesthetics and Visual Communication | 419 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 481 |
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