Signs : an introduction to semiotics / Thomas A. Sebeok.
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Toronto ; Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
[1994]
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| Series: | Toronto studies in semiotics
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Table of Contents:
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Foreword: Thomas A. Sebeok and Semiotics
- 1. Basic Notions
- The Object of Semiotics
- Defining the Sign
- Structural Properties
- Semiosis and Representation
- Types of Signs
- Nonverbal Communication
- 2. The Study of Signs
- A Biological Approach to the Study of Signs
- Messages
- The Sign
- Signs and 'Reality'
- 3. Six Species of Signs
- General Features of Signs
- Six Species of Signs
- Signal
- Symptom
- Icon
- Index
- Symbol
- Name
- On the Being, Behaving, and Becoming of Signs
- 4. Symptom Signs
- The Meaning of Symptom
- The Peircean View
- Symptoms and the Medical Origin of Semiotics
- Interpreting Symptoms
- 5. Indexical Signs
- Indexicality
- Features of Indexicality
- Manifestations of Indexicality
- The Study of Indexicality
- 6. Iconic Signs
- Iconicity
- The Incidence of Iconicity
- Features of Iconicity
- The Study of Iconicity
- 7. Fetish Signs
- The Origin of Fetishism as 'Deviation'
- The Fetish in Psychology and Sexology
- The Fetish in Semiotics
- 8. Language Signs
- The Study of the Verbal Sign
- Verbal and Nonverbal Signing
- 9. Language as a Primary Modelling System?
- Modelling System
- Uexkull's Model Revisited
- Language as a Modelling System
- Concluding Remarks
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index.