Sight, Sound, and Sense /

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Other Authors: Sebeok, Thomas A. (Thomas Albert), 1920-2001
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1978.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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 / Decio 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.