The Subject of Semiotics
Title | The Subject of Semiotics PDF eBook |
Author | Kaja Silverman |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 317 |
Release | 1983-05-12 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0199878544 |
This provocative book undertakes a new and challenging reading of recent semiotic and structuralist theory, arguing that films, novels, and poems cannot be studied in isolation from their viewers and readers.
Classics of Semiotics
Title | Classics of Semiotics PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Krampen |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 279 |
Release | 2013-06-29 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1475797001 |
This book is designed to usher the reader into the realm of semiotic studies. It analyzes the most important approaches to semiotics as they have developed over the last hundred years out of philosophy, linguistics, psychology, and biology. As a science of sign processes, semiotics investigates all types of com munication and information exchange among human beings, animals, plants, internal systems of organisms, and machines. Thus it encompasses most of the subject areas of the arts and the social sciences, as well as those of biology and medicine. Semiotic inquiry into the conditions, functions, and structures of sign processes is older than anyone scientific discipline. As a result, it is able to make the underlying unity of these disciplines apparent once again without impairing their function as specializations. Semiotics is, above all, research into the theoretical foundations of sign oriented disciplines: that is, it is General Semiotics. Under the name of Zei chenlehre, it has been pursued in the German-speaking countries since the age of the Enlightenment. During the nineteenth century, the systematic inquiry into the functioning of signs was superseded by historical investigations into the origins of signs. This opposition was overcome in the first half of the twentieth century by American Semiotic as well as by various directions of European structuralism working in the tradition of Semiology. Present-day General Semiot ics builds on all these developments.
A Theory of Semiotics
Title | A Theory of Semiotics PDF eBook |
Author | Umberto Eco |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780253202178 |
" . . . the greatest contribution to [semiotics] since the pioneering work of C. S. Peirce and Charles Morris." —Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism " . . . draws on philosophy, linguistics, sociology, anthropology and aesthetics and refers to a wide range of scholarship . . . raises many fascinating questions." —Language in Society " . . . a major contribution to the field of semiotic studies." —Robert Scholes, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism " . . . the most significant text on the subject published in the English language that I know of." —Arthur Asa Berger, Journal of Communication Eco's treatment demonstrates his mastery of the field of semiotics. It focuses on the twin problems of the doctrine of signs—communication and signification—and offers a highly original theory of sign production, including a carefully wrought typology of signs and modes of production.
Introducing Semiotics
Title | Introducing Semiotics PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Cobley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9781848311855 |
Unique graphic introductions to big ideas and thinkers, written by experts in the field.
Elements of Semiology
Title | Elements of Semiology PDF eBook |
Author | Roland Barthes |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 116 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780374521462 |
"In his Course in General Linguistics, first published in 1916, Saussure postulated the existence of a general science of signs, or Semiology, of which linguistics would form only one part. Semiology, therefore aims to take in any system of signs, whatever their substance and limits; images, gestures, musical sounds, objects, and the complex associations of all these, which form the content of ritual, convention or public entertainment: these constitute, if not languages, at least systems of signification . . . The Elements here presented have as their sole aim the extraction from linguistics of analytical concepts which we think a priori to be sufficiently general to start semiological research on its way. In assembling them, it is not presupposed that they will remain intact during the course of research; nor that semiology will always be forced to follow the linguistic model closely. We are merely suggesting and elucidating a terminology in the hope that it may enable an initial (albeit provisional) order to be introduced into the heterogeneous mass of significant facts. In fact what we purport to do is furnish a principle of classification of the questions. These elements of semiology will therefore be grouped under four main headings borrowed from structural linguistics: I. Language and Speech; II. Signified and Signifier; III. Syntagm and System; IV. Denotation and Connotation."--Roland Barthes, from his Introduction
Theory and Methodology of Semiotics
Title | Theory and Methodology of Semiotics PDF eBook |
Author | Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2020-11-23 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110616300 |
The book is an in-depth presentation of the European branch of semiotic theory, originating in the work of Ferdinand de Saussure. It has four parts: a historical introduction, the analysis of langue, narrative theory and communication theory. Part I briefly presents all the semiotic schools and their main points of reference. Although this material is accessible in many other Anglophone publications, the presentation is marked by specific choices aiming to display similarities and differences. The analysis of langue in Part II is also available in Anglophone bibliography, but the book presents Saussurean theory according to a new theoretical rationale and enriched with later developments. In addition, it is orientated so as to offer the foundation for the part that follows. Part III is a presentation of Greimasian narrative theory, well documented in Francophone bibliography but poorly represented in Anglophone publications. The presentation extends the theory in both a qualitative and a new quantitative direction, and includes a great number of examples and two extended textual analyses to help the reader understand and apply it. Part IV, communication theory, combines an extension of Greimasian sociosemiotics with other schools of thought. This original theoretical section discusses fourteen consecutive communication models, the synthesis of which results in a holistic, social semiotic theory of communication.
Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language
Title | Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language PDF eBook |
Author | Umberto Eco |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 1986-07-22 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780253203984 |
"Eco wittily and enchantingly develops themes often touched on in his previous works, but he delves deeper into their complex nature . . . this collection can be read with pleasure by those unversed in semiotic theory." —Times Literary Supplement