Handbook of Semiotics

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Indiana University Press, Sep 22, 1990 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 576 pages
"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.

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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
INDEX OF SUBJECTS AND TERMS
551
INDEX OF NAMES
565
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WINFRIED NÖTH is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Kassel, Germany. Nöth is the author of several books and numerous articles in the fields of linguistics and the semiotics of art, literature, and the media.

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