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Introducing Semiotics

By Paul Cobley , Litza Jansz

Book information

Publisher
Totem Books
Year
1997
ISBN
1840465840, 9781840465846
Open Library ID
OL21599020M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (14678989 bytes)
Edition
Third Edition
Pages
176\176
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

Why study signs? This perennial question of philosophy is answered by the science of semiotics. An animal's cry, poetry, the medical symptom, media messages, language disorders, architecture, marketing, body language - all these, and more, fall within the sphere of semiotics. This book outlines the development of sign study from its classical precursors to contemporary post-structuralism. It identifies the key semioticians and their work and explains the simple concepts behind difficult terms. For anybody who wishes to know why signs are crucial to human existence and how we can begin to study systems of signification, this book is the place to start.

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