Classics of Semiotics - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1475797028 ISBN 13 : 9781475797022

Editeur : Springer, 2013

Synopsis

This book is designed to usher the reader into the realm of semiotic studies. It analyzes the most important approaches to semiotics as they have developed over the last hundred years out of philosophy, linguistics, psychology, and biology. As a science of sign processes, semiotics investigates all types of com- munication and information exchange among human beings, animals, plants, internal systems of organisms, and machines. Thus it encompasses most of the subject areas of the arts and the social sciences, as well as those of biology and medicine. Semiotic inquiry into the conditions, functions, and structures of sign processes is older than anyone scientific discipline. As a result, it is able to make the underlying unity of these disciplines apparent once again without impairing their function as specializations. Semiotics is, above all, research into the theoretical foundations of sign- oriented disciplines: that is, it is General Semiotics. Under the name of Zei- chenlehre, it has been pursued in the German-speaking countries since the age of the Enlightenment. During the nineteenth century, the systematic inquiry into the functioning of signs was superseded by historical investigations into the origins of signs. This opposition was overcome in the first half of the twentieth century by American Semiotic as well as by various directions of European structuralism working in the tradition of Semiology. Present-day General Semiot- ics builds on all these developments.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1475797028
• ISBN 13: 9781475797022
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Éditeur: Krampen Martin, Oehler Klaus, Posner Roland, Sebeok Thomas A., Von Uexküll Thure
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