Handbook of semiotics

Winfried Nöth

Indiana University Press, 1995 - Literary Criticism - 576 pages

When the German-language edition of this book was published in 1984, Thomas Sebeok, reviewing it in the Times Literary Supplement, called it "a bravura solo performance by a young German academic who has reduced into the compass of a one-volume manual a vast mass of information about contemporary semiotics. He is obviously abreast of most developments and well organized, has no evident partisan axes to grind, and writes with economy, percision, and lucidity."

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Contents

• INTRODUCTION: 3
• History and Classics of Modern Semiotics: 9
• History of Semiotics: 11
• Peirce: 39
• Morris: 48
• Saussure: 56
• Hjelmslev: 64
• Jakobson: 74
• Sign and Meaning: 77
• Sign: 79
• Meaning Sense and Reference: 92
• Semantics and Semiotics: 103
• Sign Signal Index: 107
• Symbol: 115
• Icon and Iconicity: 121
• Metaphor: 128
• Information: 134
• Semiosis Code and the Semiotic Field: 145
• Language and LanguageBased Codes: 225
• Schools: 293
• The Field: 327
• Nonverbal Communication: 387
• Aesthetics and Visual Communication: 419
• BIBLIOGRAPHY: 481
• INDEX OF SUBJECTS AND TERMS: 551
• INDEX OF NAMES: 565

About the author

WINFRIED NÖTH is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Kassel, Germany. Nöth is the author of several books and numerous articles in the fields of linguistics and the semiotics of art, literature, and the media.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Handbook of semiotics; Advances in semiotics
• Author: Winfried Nöth
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Indiana University Press, 1995
• ISBN: 0253209595, 9780253209597
• Length: 576 pages
• Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General; Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory