Handbook of Semiotics

Handbook of Semiotics
Author: Winfried Noth
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 600
Release: 1990-09-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780253209597

History and Classics of Modern Semiotics -- Sign and Meaning -- Semiotics, Code, and the Semiotic Field -- Language and Language-Based Codes -- From Structuralism to Text Semiotics: Schools and Major Figures -- Text Semiotics: The Field -- Nonverbal Communication -- Aesthetics and Visual Communication.

The Subject of Semiotics

The Subject of Semiotics
Author: Kaja Silverman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 1983-05-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0199772150

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.

Bibliography of Semiotics, 1975-1985

Bibliography of Semiotics, 1975-1985
Author: Viktoria Eschbach-Szabo
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 949
Release: 1986-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9027237395

This bibliography of semiotic studies covering the years 1975-1985 impressively reveals the world-wide intensification in the field. During this decade, national semiotic societies have been founded allover the world; a great number of international, national, and local semiotic conferences have taken place; the number of periodicals and book series devoted to semiotics has increased as has the number of books and dissertations in the field. This bibliography is the result of a dedicated effort to approach complete coverage.

Theory and Methodology of Semiotics

Theory and Methodology of Semiotics
Author: Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total 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 Interpretation

Semiotics and Interpretation
Author: Robert Scholes
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 182
Release: 1982-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780300030938

The book offers . . . a clutch of examples of semiotics usefully and intelligently applied, which Scholes's patient, cheerful tone and his resolutely concrete vocabulary manage to combine into a breezily informative American confection.-Terence Hawkes, Times Literary Supplement

Introducing Semiotics

Introducing Semiotics
Author: Paul Cobley
Publisher:
Total 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

Elements of Semiology
Author: Roland Barthes
Publisher: Macmillan
Total 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

Analyzing Performance

Analyzing Performance
Author: Patrice Pavis
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2003
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780472066896

An indispensable guide for the study of performance, by France's leading theater critic, now available in English

Signs in Use

Signs in Use
Author: Jørgen Dines Johansen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2005-07-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1134505787

Signs 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 the semiotic perspective to show how and why semiotics works as it does. Each chapter covers a problem encountered in semiotics and explores the key concepts and relevant notions found in the various theories of semiotics. Chapters build gradually on knowledge gained, and can also be used as self-contained units for study when supported by the extensive glossary. The book is illustrated with numerous examples, from traffic systems to urban parks, and offers useful biographies of key twentieth-century semioticians.

Structuralism & Semiotics

Structuralism & Semiotics
Author: Terence Hawkes
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1977-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780520034228

"This guide discusses the nature and development of structuralism and semiotics, calling for a new critical awareness of the ways in which we communicate and drawing attention to their implications for our society. Published in 1977 as the first volume in the New Accents series, Structuralism and Semiotics made crucial debates in critical theory accessible to those with no prior knowledge of the field, thus enacting its own small revolution. Since then a generation of readers has used the book as an entry not only into structuralism and semiotics, but into the wide range of cultural and critical theories underpinned by these approaches." "Structuralism and Semiotics remains the clearest introduction to some of the most important topics in modern critical theory. An afterword and fresh suggestions for further reading ensure that this new edition will become, like its predecessor, the essential starting point for anyone new to the field."--BOOK JACKET.