Signs An Introduction to Semiotics

Name: Signs An Introduction to Semiotics
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ISBN: 9780802084729

ISBN-10: 0802084729

ISBN-13: 9780802084729

Edition: 2nd 2001 (Revised)

Authors: Thomas A. Sebeok

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Book details

List price: $29.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Publication date: 12/22/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 6.03" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English



Preface to the Second Edition


Foreword: Thomas A. Sebeok and Semiotics




Basic Notions


The Object of Semiotics


Defining the Sign


Structural Properties


Semiosis and Representation


Types of Signs


Nonverbal Communication



The Study of Signs


A Biological Approach to the Study of Signs


Messages


The Sign


Signs and 'Reality'



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



Symptom Signs


The Meaning of Symptom


The Peircean View


Symptoms and the Medical Origins of Semiotics


Interpreting Symptoms



Indexical Signs


Indexicality


Features of Indexicality


Manifestations of Indexicality


The Study of Indexicality



Iconic Signs


Iconicity


The Incidence of Iconicity


Features of Iconicity


The Study of Iconicity



Fetish Signs


The Origin of Fetishism as 'Deviation'


The Fetish in Psychology and Sexology


The Fetish in Semiotics



Language Signs


The Study of the Verbal Sign


Verbal and Nonverbal Signing



Language as a Primary Modelling System?


Modelling System


Uexkull's Model Revisited


Language as a Modelling System


Concluding Remarks


Glossary


Bibliography


Index