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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810107603321

Titolo

The Routledge companion to semiotics / / edited by Paul Cobley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-135-28428-8

1-135-28429-6

1-282-25695-5

9786612256950

0-203-87415-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (421 p.)

Collana

Routledge Companions

Altri autori (Persone)

CobleyPaul <1963->

Disciplina

302.2

401.41

Soggetti

Semiotics

Semantics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-388) and index.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; USING THIS BOOK; Part I UNDERSTANDING SEMIOTICS; INTRODUCTION; 1 ANCIENT SEMIOTICS; 2 SEMIOTICS OF NATURE; 3 UMWELT AND MODELLING; 4 LOGIC AND COGNITION; 5 REALISM AND EPISTEMOLOGY; 6 PEIRCE, PHENOMENOLOGY AND SEMIOTICS; 7 THE SAUSSUREAN HERITAGE; 8 SOCIOSEMIOTICS; 9 SEMIOTICS OF MEDIA AND CULTURE; 10 SEMIOETHICS; Part II KEY THEMES AND MAJOR FIGURES IN SEMIOTICS; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z; REFERENCES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The Routledge Companion to Semiotics provides the ideal introduction to semiotics, containing engaging essays from an impressive range of international leaders in the field.Topics covered include:the history, development, and uses of semiotics key theorists, including Saussure, Peirce and Sebeokcrucial and contemporary topics such as biosemiotics, sociosemiotics and semioethics the semiotics of media and culture, nature and cognition. Featuring an extended glossary of key terms and th