Sight, Sound, and Sense / edited by Thomas A. Sebeok.
"Semiotics: A Discipline or an Interdisciplinary Method?" —the query with which the internationally celebrated scholar Umberto Eco has titled his contribution to this volume—articulates a question raised in many quarters and will evoke interest among specialists not only in semiotics but a...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bloomington : : Indiana University Press,, 1978. ©1978. |
| Year of Publication: | 1978 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Advances in semiotics
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 online resource ix, 289 pages.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Historiography: Toward the origin of semiotic / John N. Deely
- Peirce's general theory of signs / Max H. Fisch
- 2. Methodology: Semiotics: a discipline or an interdisciplinary method? / Umberto Eco
- The contiguity illusion / Decio Pignatari
- Communication vs. semiosis: two conceptions of semiotics / Alain Rey
- 3. Nonverbal communication: Affective and symbolic meaning: some zoosemiotic speculations / Peter Marler
- Facial signs: facts, fantasies, and possibilities / Paul Ekman
- Sign languages and the verbal/nonverbal distinction / William C. Stokoe
- 4. Applications: Verbal patterns and medical disease: prophylactic implications of learning / Harley C. Shands
- For a semiotic anthropology / Milton Singer
- A semiotic approach to religion / Boris Ogibenin
- A semiotic approach to nonsense: clowns and limericks / Paul Bouissac; with appendix by Ivan Karp
- On semiotic aspects of translation / Bogusław P. Lawendowski.