Theories of the Sign in Classical Antiquity

Informationen zum Autor GIOVANNI MANETTI is a teacher and researcher in the Institute of Communication Studies at the University of Bologna. CHRISTINE RICHARDSON is in the Department of Languages at the University of Bologna. Klappentext In the "classical" tradition he sees a concept of the sign which is significantly different from that currently in use. Zusammenfassung Talks about the origin of semiotics and sign theory. This book reconsiders the semiotic practices and the theoretical considerations of the sign which were developed in the ancient world and have come down to us through literary, philosophical, medical, historical, and rhetorical traditions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction One. Mesopotamian Divination Two. Greek Divination Three. Signs and Semiosic Processes in Greek Medincine Four. Plato Five. Language and Signs in Aristotle Six. Theory of Language and Semiotics in the Stoic Philosophers Seven. Inference and Language in Epicurus Eight. Philodemus: De Signis Nine. Latin Rhetoric Ten. Augustine Notes Bibliography

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• Authors: Giovanni Manetti, Manetti Giovanni
• Assisted by: Translated by Christine Richardson Giova (Editor), Christine Richardson (Translation)
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.03.1993
• EAN: 9780253336842
• ISBN: 978-0-253-33684-2
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Advances in Semiotics; Columbia Essays on Modern Writ; Advances in Semiotics; Columbia Essays on Modern Writ
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies