A Perfusion of Signs

This collection celebrates the founding of the Semiotics Society of America. The ten essays cover various aspects of semiotics, ranging from its medical foundations to philosophical concerns, logic, the arts, and social science perspectives. The title echoes a remark by the great American founder of...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Sebeok, Thomas A. (Editor), Agrest, Diana (-), Sebeok, Thomas A. (Thomas Albert), 1920-2001
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press 1977
1977.
Series:Advances in semiotics
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009598315206719
Table of Contents:
  • Criteria for semiosis / Rulon S. Wells
  • Peirce's theory of signs / J. Jay Zeman
  • Logical basis of semiotics / Henry Hiz
  • Poetics and verbal art / Edward Stankiewicz
  • Unexpected semiotic implications of medical inquiry / Harley C. Shands and James D. Meltzer
  • Semiotics and the limits of architecture / Diana Agrest and Mario Gandelsonas
  • The contribution of musical semiotics to the semiotic discussion in general / Jean-Jacques Nattiez
  • Semiotics and spectacles: the circus institution and representations / Paul Bouissac
  • Semiotics and culture / Erik Schwimmer
  • Ecumenicalism in semiotics / Thomas A. Sebeok.