Basics of Semiotics
9th Edition
Published on 31. December 2021
Book
Hardback
400 pages
978-1-4878-0780-1 (ISBN)
Description
The last half century has produced an increasing interest in semiotics, the study of signs. As an interdisciplinary field, moreover, semiotics has produced a vast literature from many different points of view. As the discourse has expanded, clear definitions and goals become more elusive. Semioticians still lack a unified theory of the purposes of semiotics as a discipline as well as a comprehensive rationale for the linking of semiosis at the levels of culture, society, and nature. This short, cogent, philosophically oriented book outlines and analyzes the basic concepts of semiotics in a coherent, overall framework.
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Edition
9th ed.
Language
English
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 242 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
739 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4878-0780-1 (9781487807801)
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John Deely was an American philosopher and semiotician. He was a professor of philosophy at Saint Vincent College and Seminary in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Prior to this, he held the Rudman Chair of Graduate Philosophy at the Center for Thomistic Studies, located at the University of St. Thomas. His main research concerned the role of semiosis in mediating objects and things. He specifically investigated the manner in which experience itself is a dynamic structure woven of triadic relations whose elements or terms interchange positions and roles over time in the spiral of semiosis.