Semiotics - An Introductory Anthology

-International Philosophical QuarterlyThis volume presents the classic statements in semiotics and touches on a vast set of problems and themes-philosophical, aesthetic, literary, cultural, biological, and anthropological.

List of contents

Robert E. Innis

Introduction

Charles S. Peirce

Logic as Semiotic: The Theory of Signs

Ferdinand De Saussaure

The Linguistic Sign

V.N. Volosinov

Verbal Interaction

Karl Buhler

The Key Principle: The Sign-Character of Language

Susanne K. Langer

Discursive and Presentational Forms

Claude Levi-Strauss

Structural Analysis in Linguisits and in Anthropology

Gregory Bateson

A Theory of Play and Fantasy

Roman Jakobson

Closing Statement: Linguistics and Poetics

Charles Morris

Signs and the Act

Roland Barthes

Rhetoric of the Image

Meyer Schapiro

On Some Problems in the Semiotics of the Visual Arts: Field and Vehicle in Image-Signs

Emile Benveniste

The Semiology of Language

Umberto Eco

The Semantics of Metaphor

Rene Thom

From the Icon to the Symbol

Thomas A. Sebeok

Zoosemiotic Components of Human Communication

Index of Names

Index of Subjects

About the author

edited by Robert E. Innis

Summary

-International Philosophical QuarterlyThis volume presents the classic statements in semiotics and touches on a vast set of problems and themes-philosophical, aesthetic, literary, cultural, biological, and anthropological.

Product details

• Authors: R.E. Innis
• Assisted by: Edited with Introductions and Notes by R (Editor), Robert Innis (Editor), Robert E. Innis (Editor)
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.06.1985
• EAN: 9780253203441
• ISBN: 978-0-253-20344-1
• No. of pages: 332
• Dimensions: 235 mm x 156 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 542 g
• Series: Advances in Semiotics (Paperba; Advances in Semiotics; Advances in Semiotics (Paperba
• Subjects: Guides; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics