Theory of Linguistic Signs

Zusatztext ... the patient reader will find much to provoke thought and will lead, we expect, to the application of some of the material set out by Keller to more concrete problems. Informationen zum Autor Rudi Keller is Professor of German Linguistics at Heinrich Heine University, Dusseldorf. Klappentext Signs shape our lives: we are surrounded by signs! we surround ourselves with signs! and usually we are completely unaware of it. Rudi Keller shows how signs emerge! function! and develop in the permanent process of language change. He recombines thoughts and ideas from Plato to the present day to create a new theory of the meaning and evolution of icons and symbols. By assuming no prior knowledge and by developing his argument from first principles! he has written a basic text which includes all the necessary features: easy style! good organization! original scholarship! and historical depth. This is a non-technical book which will interest linguists! philosophers! students of communications and cultural studies! semioticians/semanticists! sociologists! and anthropologists. Zusammenfassung Non-technical investigation of the history of language signs and of what philosophers, linguists, and others have had to say about them. Keller shows how signs emerge, function and develop in the permanent process of language change and creates a new theory of the meaning and evolution of icons and symbols.

Product details

• Authors: Rudi Keller, Rudi (Professor of German Linguistics Keller, Keller Rudi
• Assisted by: Kimberley Duenwald (Translation), Duenwald Kimberley (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.1999
• EAN: 9780198237952
• ISBN: 978-0-19-823795-2
• No. of pages: 276
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Historical & comparative linguistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Historical and comparative linguistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc