Semiotic Perspectives
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Semiotic Perspectives

  1. 273 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Semiotic Perspectives

About this book

First published in 1982, this book looks at a wide variety of issues concerning the vast field of study that is 'semiotics. It begins by tracing the beginnings of modern semiotics in the works two pioneering figures — Saussure and Peirce — in order to present fundamental assumptions, notions and distinctions which provide an essential background to the more recent developments. The author then goes on to look at Behavioural Semiotics, Luis Prieto's idea of "l'Acte Semique", Austin's theory of 'Speech Acts' and Searle's elaborations, Barthes' move away from philosophical and scientific approaches in his ideology of Socio-Cultural Signification, Functionalism and Axiomatic Functionalism, style as a form of communication, semiotics of the cinema, and communicative behaviour in non-human species.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Original Title
  6. Original Copyright
  7. Contents
  8. Introduction page
  9. 1 A Background to Semiotics: Saussure and Peirce
  10. 2 Semiotics as a Behavioural Theory: Charles Morris
  11. 3 Semiotics as a Theory of 'l' Acte Sèmique': Luis Prieto
  12. 4 Semiotics as a Theory of 'Speech Acts': Austin and Searle
  13. 5 Semiology as an Ideology of Socio-Cultural Signification: Roland Barthes
  14. 6 Semiology as a Theory of Semiological Systems and of Indices: Functionalism
  15. 7 An Integrated Theory of Semiotics: Axiomatic Functionalism
  16. 8 Semiotics as a Stylistic Theory: Bureau and Riffaterre
  17. 9 Semiotics of the Cinema: Christian Metz
  18. 10 Zoo-Semiotics
  19. References
  20. Index