Signs: An Introduction to Semiotics

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Signs: An Introduction to Semiotics (Second Edition)
By Thomas A. Sebeok




&#8226ublisher:  University of Toronto Press
•Number Of Pages:  216
&#8226ublication Date:  2001-12-22
•ISBN-10 / ASIN:  0802084729
•ISBN-13 / EAN:  9780802084729


A pioneer in the development of semiotics and communication theory in the 20th century, Seboek was invited to inaugurate the series with an introduction to the discipline. It can be used as a textbook in advanced university psychology, linguistics, and biology courses as well. The second edition retains the eight chapters from the 1994 first virtually intact, and adds a new one on nonverbal communication. They are all reworked from previously published studies. --Book News



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This updated second edition of Signs combines some of Sebeok's most important essays with a new general introduction, introductory passages at the outset of each chapter, a glossary, and brief biographies of the major semioticians. From an overview of the discipline to a more detailed exploration of sign categories, the author powerfully demonstrates the co-dependency of verbal and non-verbal communication.



The interpretive science of semiotics offers powerful analytical tools for the application of many disciplines to the study of perception. Semiotics is the study of signs, and as such, is of relevance to a wide spectrum of scholars and professionals, including social scientists, psychologists, artists, graphic designers, and students of literature. Semiosis - the production and interpretation of linguistic and visual signs - is innate to human beings of all societies. From the simplest of hand gestures to the most complex diagrams and charts, the sign is key to the communication of ideas. Thomas A. Sebeok examines, in an engaging, readable style, how the sign mediates between bodily experience and abstract thought.



Aimed primarily at undergraduate and graduate students, this engaging book also has plenty to offer any general reader who is interested in exploring and analyzing the complex sign systems we so often take for granted.


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