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Signs : an introduction to semiotics / Thomas A. Sebeok.

By: Sebeok, Thomas Albert, 1920-Material type: TextTextReference number:ocm29308033Series: Toronto studies in semioticsPublication details: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c1994. Description: xvii, 154 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 0802029582 (bound) :; 0802077803 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Semiotics | Signs and symbols | S�emiotique | Signes et symbolesDDC classification: 302.2 LOC classification: P99 | .S346 1994
Contents:
Introduction: Thomas A. Sebeok and the Science of Signs -- 1. The Study of Signs. A Biological Approach to the Study of Signs. Messages. The Sign. Signs and 'Reality' -- 2. 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 -- 3. Symptom Signs. The Meaning of Symptom. The Peircean View. Symptoms and the Medical Origins of Semiotics. Interpreting Symptoms -- 4. Indexical Signs. Indexicality. Features of Indexicality. Manifestations of Indexicality. The Study of Indexicality -- 5. Iconic Signs. Iconicity. The Incidence of Iconicity. Features of Iconicity. The Study of Iconicity -- 6. Fetish Signs. The Origin of Fetishism as 'Deviation'. The Fetish in Psychology and Sexology. The Fetish in Semiotics -- 7. Language Signs. The Study of the Verbal Sign. Verbal and Non-verbal Signing -- 8. Language as a Primary Modelling System? Modelling System. Uexkull's Model Revisited. Language as a Modelling System.
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Includes index.

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

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

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