Signs in use : an introduction to semiotics / Jorgen Dines Johansen and Svend Erik Larsen ; translated by Dinda L. Gorleé and John Irons.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johansen, Jørgen Dines.

Contributor:

Larsen, Svend Erik, 1946-

Standardized Title:

Tegn i brug. English

Language:

Danish

English

Subjects (All):

Semiotics.

Signs and symbols.

Physical Description:

vi, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.

Language Note:

Translated from the Danish.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415262038

0415262046

OCLC:

48979413