Handbook of Semiotics

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Pub. Date: 1995-04-01
Publisher(s): Indiana Univ Pr
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Summary

When the German-language edition of this book was published in 1984, Thomas Sebeok, reviewing it in the Times Literary Supplement, called it "a bravura solo performance by a young German academic who has reduced into the compass of a one-volume manual a vast mass of information about contemporary semiotics. He is obviously abreast of most developments and well organized, has no evident partisan axes to grind, and writes with economy, percision, and lucidity."

Author Biography

WINFRIED N+ûTH is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Kassel, Germany. N+¦th is the author of several books and numerous articles in the fields of linguistics and the semiotics of art, literature, and the media.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Introduction 3(8)
History and Classics of Modern Semiotics
History of Semiotics
11(28)
Peirce
39(9)
Morris
48(8)
Saussure
56(8)
Hjelmslev
64(10)
Jakobson
74(5)
Sign and Meaning
Sign
79(13)
Meaning, Sense, and Reference
92(11)
Semantics and Semiotics
103(4)
Typology of Signs: Sign, Signal, Index
107(8)
Symbol
115(6)
Icon and Iconicity
121(7)
Metaphor
128(6)
Information
134(13)
Semiosis, Code, and the Semiotic Field
Zoosemiotics, Ethology, and Semiogenesis
147(21)
Communication and Semiosis
168(13)
Function
181(7)
Magic
188(4)
Structure
192(6)
System
198(8)
Code
206(15)
Teaching
221(6)
Language and Language-Based Codes
Verbal Communication: Introduction
227(2)
Language in a Semiotic Frame
229(11)
Arbitrariness and Motivation: The Language Sign
240(7)
Paralanguage
247(4)
Writing
251(16)
Universal Language
267(12)
Sign Language
279(8)
Language Substitutes
287(8)
From Structuralism to Text Semiotics: Schools and Major Figures
Introduction
295(3)
Structuralism, Poststructuralism, and Neostructuralism
298(9)
Russian Formalism, Prague School, Soviet Semiotics
307(3)
Barthes's Text Semiotics
310(4)
Greimas's Structural Semantics and Text Semiotic Project
314(7)
Kristeva's Semanalysis
321(4)
Eco
325(4)
Text Semiotics: The Field
Text Semiotics: Introduction
329(5)
Hermeneutics and Exegesis
334(4)
Rhetoric and Stylistics
338(8)
Literature
346(8)
Poetry and Poeticalness
354(7)
Theater and Drama
361(6)
Narrative
367(7)
Myth
374(3)
Ideology
377(4)
Theology
381(6)
Nonverbal Communication
Nonverbal Communication: Introduction
387(5)
Gesture, ``Body Language,'' and Kinesics
392(10)
Facial Signals
402(3)
Gaze
405(2)
Tactile Communication
407(3)
Proxemics: The Semiotics of Space
410(5)
Chronemics: The Semiotics of Time
415(6)
Aesthetics and Visual Communication
Aesthetics
421(8)
Music
429(6)
Architecture
435(5)
Objects
440(6)
Image
446(10)
Painting
456(4)
Photography
460(3)
Film
463(9)
Comics
472(4)
Advertising
476(5)
Bibliography 481(70)
Index of Subjects and Terms 551(14)
Index of Names 565

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