Signs

An Introduction to Semiotics

By: Thomas Sebeok

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Paperback | 22 December 2001 | Edition Number 2

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The interpretive science of semiotics offers powerful analytical tools for the application of many disciplines to the study of perception. Semiotics is the study of signs, and as such, is of relevance to a wide spectrum of scholars and professionals, including social scientists, psychologists, artists, graphic designers, and students of literature. Semiosis - the production and interpretation of linguistic and visual signs - is innate to human beings of all societies. From the simplest of hand gestures to the most complex diagrams and charts, the sign is key to the communication of ideas. Thomas A. Sebeok examines, in an engaging, readable style, how the sign mediates between bodily experience and abstract thought.

This updated second edition of Signs combines some of Sebeok's most important essays with a new general introduction, introductory passages at the outset of each chapter, a glossary, and brief biographies of the major semioticians. From an overview of the discipline to a more detailed exploration of sign categories, the author powerfully demonstrates the co-dependency of verbal and non-verbal communication.

Aimed primarily at undergraduate and graduate students, this engaging book also has plenty to offer any general reader who is interested in exploring and analyzing the complex sign systems we so often take for granted.

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Preface to the Second Edition	p. ix
Foreword: Thomas A. Sebeok and Semiotics	p. xi
Basic Notions	p. 3
The Object of Semiotics	p. 4
Defining the Sign	p. 5
Structural Properties	p. 6
Semiosis and Representation	p. 8
Types of Signs	p. 8
Nonverbal Communication	p. 11
The Study of Signs	p. 25
A Biological Approach to the Study of Signs	p. 27
Messages	p. 31
The Sign	p. 32
Signs and 'Reality'	p. 36
Six Species of Signs	p. 39
General Features of Signs	p. 39
Six Species of Signs	p. 42
Signal	p. 44
Symptom	p. 46
Icon	p. 50
Index	p. 53
Symbol	p. 55
Name	p. 59
On the Being, Behaving, and Becoming of Signs	p. 61
Symptom Signs	p. 65
The Meaning of Symptom	p. 66
The Peircean View	p. 70
Symptoms and the Medical Origins of Semiotics	p. 72
Interpreting Symptoms	p. 76
Indexical Signs	p. 83
Indexicality	p. 84
Features of Indexicality	p. 87
Manifestations of Indexicality	p. 92
The Study of Indexicality	p. 96
Iconic Signs	p. 103
Iconicity	p. 103
The Incidence of Iconicity	p. 105
Features of Iconicity	p. 107
The Study of Iconicity	p. 110
Fetish Signs	p. 115
The Origin of Fetishism as 'Deviation'	p. 116
The Fetish in Psychology and Sexology	p. 117
The Fetish in Semiotics	p. 123
Language Signs	p. 127
The Study of the Verbal Sign	p. 128
Verbal and Nonverbal Signing	p. 135
Language as a Primary Modelling System?	p. 139
Modelling System	p. 140
Uexkull's Model Revisited	p. 143
Language as a Modelling System	p. 146
Concluding Remarks	p. 148
Glossary	p. 151
Bibliography	p. 159
Index	p. 187
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