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...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Sebeok, Thomas A. (Thomas Albert), 1920-2001 (Editor)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1978]
Series:	Advances in semiotics.
Subjects:	Semiotics. Communication. Misinformation. Communication Semiotics Semiotik Wissenschaftstheorie Aufsatzsammlung Aufsatzsammlung. Wissenschaftstheorie. Semiotik.
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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 / 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.

Sight, sound, and sense / edited by Thomas A. Sebeok.

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