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Author(s): Thomas Albert Sebeok
Series: Advances in semiotics
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Year: 1978

Language: English
Pages: 289
City: Bloomington and London
Tags: semiotics; zoosemiotics; biosemiotics

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 / Décio 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.