Basics of semiotics

by John Deely

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The last half century has produced an increasing interest in semiotics, the study of signs. As an interdisciplinary field, moreover, semiotics has produced a vast literature from many different points of view. As the discourse has expanded, clear definitions and goals become more elusive. Semioticians still lack a unified theory of the purposes of semiotics as a discipline as well as a comprehensive rationale for the linking of semiosis at the levels of culture, society, and nature. This show more short, cogent, philosophically oriented book outlines and analyzes the basic concepts of semiotics in a coherent, overall framework. show less

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John Deely, currently holding a chair in philosophy at the University of St Thomas, Houston, has held positions at several universities in the United States, as well as outside the United States at universities in Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Finland, Bulgaria, and Estonia. He is author of many writings, including What Distinguishes Human show more Understanding? (2002), and The Impact on Philosophy of Semiotics (2003) from St Augustine's Press. In October of 2009 both the International Gilson Society and the American Maritain Association awarded Deely their medals for philosophical achievement. The University of Scranton Press has just published, under the editorship of Prof. Paul Cobley of London, UK, Realism for the 21st Century. A John Deely Reader. show less

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Basics of semiotics
Original publication date
1990

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Nonfiction, Philosophy, Literature Studies and Criticism
DDC/MDS
401.41LanguageLanguagePhilosophy and theory; international languagesCommunication; semantics, pragmatics, languages for special purposesDiscourse analysis
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P99 .D398Language and LiteraturePhilology. LinguisticsSemiotics. Signs and symbols
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