03977oam 2200733I 450 991045071780332120210601165741.01-134-50579-51-299-05483-81-280-11470-30-203-99414-010.4324/9780203994146(CKB)1000000000253716(EBL)240576(OCoLC)475954398(SSID)ssj0000245895(PQKBManifestationID)11200099(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000245895(PQKBWorkID)10179789(PQKB)11370549(SSID)ssj0000309510(PQKBManifestationID)11207098(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000309510(PQKBWorkID)10282054(PQKB)11502714(MiAaPQ)EBC240576(Au-PeEL)EBL240576(CaPaEBR)ebr10165459(CaONFJC)MIL11470(OCoLC)61170055(EXLCZ)99100000000025371620180331d2002 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSigns in use an introduction to semiotics /Jørgen Dines Johansen and Svend Erik Larsen ; translated by Dinda L. Gorlee and John IronsLondon ;New York :Routledge :Taylor & Francis Group,2002.1 online resource (255 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-26204-6 0-415-26203-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Signs in Use; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; What is semiotics about?; What is this book about?; 2 Code and structure: from difference to meaning; Code and meaning; Code and structure; 3 Signs: from tracks to words; Zadig and the doctrine of signs; What does the sign represent?; Semiotic competence; How does the sign represent something?; Signs and non-signs; Signs and sign-systems; Semiosis: the sign-process; 4 Discourse analysis: sign, action, intention; What is discourse?Structuralist discourse analysisPhenomenological discourse analysis; Sociological discourse analysis; 5 Action: interaction becomes narration; Of rats and heroes; I would if I knew I could; Necessity and probability - logic and convention; Heracles and Antaios; 6 Text: from element-structure to dialogue-structure; Text and sign; Text and object; Text and intertextuality: the text as expanding syntagm; Text as semiosis: the semiotic pyramid; The boundaries of the text; 7 Nature and culture: from object to sign; What is cultural semiotics?; The borders of culture; The codes of cultureNature's taleCultural borders and cultural change; Glossary; Biographies; Bibliography; IndexSigns in Use is an accessible introduction to the study of semiotics.All organisms, from bees to computer networks, create signs, communicate, and exchange information. The field of semiotics explores the ways in which we use these signs to make inferences about the nature of the world.Signs in Use cuts across different semiotic schools to introduce six basic concepts which present semiotics as a theory and a set of analytical tools: code, sign, discourse, action, text, and culture. Moving from the most simple to the most complex concept, the book gradually widens theSemioticsSigns and symbolsElectronic books.Semiotics.Signs and symbols.401.41Johansen Jørgen Dines.938568Larsen Svend Erik734718Gorlee Dinda L480137Irons John862435FlBoTFGFlBoTFGBOOK9910450717803321Signs in use2115038UNINA