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Basics of Semiotics (Advances in Semiotics)

Book information

Publisher
Indiana University Press
Year
1990
ISBN
9780253205681, 0253205689, 9780585099743
LCC
P99 .D398 1990
Open Library ID
OL2218435M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
569 kB (582529 bytes)
Series
Advances in Semiotics
Pages
125\125
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The last half century has produced an increasing interest in semiotics, the study of signs. As an interdisciplinary field, moreover, semiotics has produced a vast literature from many different points of view. As the discourse has expanded, clear definitions and goals become more elusive. Semioticians still lack a unified theory of the purposes of semiotics as a discipline as well as a comprehensive rationale for the4 linking of semiosis at the levels of culture, society, and nature. As Deely suggests in his preface, the image of the modern semiotic universe is the same as that of astronomy in 1611 as suggested by John Donne: "Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone; / All just supply, and all Relation." This short, cogent, philosophically oriented book outlines and analyzes the basic concepts of semiotics in a coherent, overall framework.

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