Signs : an introduction to semiotics / Thomas A. Sebeok.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sebeok, Thomas A. (Thomas Albert), 1920-2001.

Series:

Toronto studies in semiotics and communication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semiotics.

Signs and symbols.

Physical Description:

xvi, 193 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 2001.

Contents:

Foreword: Thomas A. Sebeok and Semiotics / Marcel Danesi xi

1 Basic Notions 3

The Object of Semiotics 4

Defining the Sign 5

Structural Properties 6

Semiosis and Representation 8

Types of Signs 8

Nonverbal Communication 11

2 The Study of Signs 25

A Biological Approach to the Study of Signs 27

Messages 31

The Sign 32

Signs and 'Reality' 36

3 Six Species of Signs 39

General Features of Signs 39

Six Species of Signs 42

Signal 44

Symptom 46

Icon 50

Symbol 55

Name 59

On the Being, Behaving, and Becoming of Signs 61

4 Symptom Signs 65

The Meaning of Symptom 66

The Peircean View 70

Symptoms and the Medical Origins of Semiotics 72

Interpreting Symptoms 76

5 Indexical Signs 83

Indexicality 84

Features of Indexicality 87

Manifestations of Indexicality 92

The Study of Indexicality 96

6 Iconic Signs 103

Iconicity 103

The Incidence of Iconicity 105

Features of Iconicity 107

The Study of Iconicity 110

7 Fetish Signs 115

The Origin of Fetishism as 'Deviation' 116

The Fetish in Psychology and Sexology 117

The Fetish in Semiotics 123

8 Language Signs 127

The Study of the Verbal Sign 128

Verbal and Nonverbal Signing 135

9 Language as a Primary Modelling System? 139

Modelling System 140

Uexkull's Model Revisited 143

Language as a Modelling System 146.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [159]-186) and index.

ISBN:

0802036341

0802084729

OCLC:

47270781