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Classics of Semiotics [electronic resource] / edited by Martin Krampen, Klaus Oehler, Roland Posner, Thomas A. Sebeok, Thure von Uexküll.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Topics in Contemporary SemioticsPublisher: New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1987Edition: 1st ed. 1987Description: XVI, 272 p. online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781475797008
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 153 23
LOC classification:
  • BF201
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Contents:
1. An Outline of Peirce’s Semiotics -- 2. Charles Morris and the Behavioral Foundations of Semiotics -- 3. Ferdinand de Saussure and the Development of Semiology -- 4. Louis Hjelmslev: Glossematics as General Semiotics -- 5. The Influence of Roman Jakobson on the Development of Semiotics -- 6. Karl Bühler -- 7. The Sign Theory of Jakob von Uexküll -- 8. Thomas A. Sebeok’s Doctrine of Signs -- Author Index.
In: Springer Nature eBookSummary: 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 During the nineteenth century, the systematic inquiry into the functioning of signs was superseded by historical investigations into the origins of signs.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.
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1. An Outline of Peirce’s Semiotics -- 2. Charles Morris and the Behavioral Foundations of Semiotics -- 3. Ferdinand de Saussure and the Development of Semiology -- 4. Louis Hjelmslev: Glossematics as General Semiotics -- 5. The Influence of Roman Jakobson on the Development of Semiotics -- 6. Karl Bühler -- 7. The Sign Theory of Jakob von Uexküll -- 8. Thomas A. Sebeok’s Doctrine of Signs -- Author Index.

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.

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