ISBN:
9781442679948
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (210 pages)
Edition:
2nd ed
Series Statement:
Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication
Parallel Title:
Print version Sebeok, Thomas Signs : An Introduction to Semiotics
DDC:
302.2
Keywords:
Electronic books. -- local
;
Semiotics
;
Signs and symbols
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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 -- Uexküll's Model Revisited -- Language as a Modelling System -- Concluding Remarks -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- Z -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z
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