Signs :

Sebeok, Thomas Albert, 1920-

Signs : an introduction to semiotics / Thomas A. Sebeok. - Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c1994. - xvii, 154 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Toronto studies in semiotics .

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references: p. [129]-147.

Introduction: Thomas A. Sebeok and the Science of Signs -- The Study of Signs. A Biological Approach to the Study of Signs. Messages. The Sign. Signs and 'Reality' -- Six Species of Signs. General Features of Signs. Six Species of Signs. Signal. Symptom. Icon. Index. Symbol. Name. On the Being, Behaving, and Becoming of Signs -- Symptom Signs. The Meaning of Symptom. The Peircean View. Symptoms and the Medical Origins of Semiotics. Interpreting Symptoms -- Indexical Signs. Indexicality. Features of Indexicality. Manifestations of Indexicality. The Study of Indexicality -- Iconic Signs. Iconicity. The Incidence of Iconicity. Features of Iconicity. The Study of Iconicity -- Fetish Signs. The Origin of Fetishism as 'Deviation'. The Fetish in Psychology and Sexology. The Fetish in Semiotics -- Language Signs. The Study of the Verbal Sign. Verbal and Non-verbal Signing -- Language as a Primary Modelling System? Modelling System. Uexkull's Model Revisited. Language as a Modelling System. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

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Semiotics.
Signs and symbols.
S�emiotique.
Signes et symboles.

P99 / .S346 1994

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