Semiotic Insights : : The Data Do the Talking / / Irmengard Rauch.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Rauch, Irmengard,
• MitwirkendeR: Sebeok, Thomas A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.)

This collection of articles by Irmengard Rauch, a widely known and respected scholar of semiotics and linguistics, provides a lucid narrative on the nature of both subjects, revealing their symbiotic relationship through concrete, data-based application.Rauch shows, with many practical examples, how to conduct semiotic analyses of language, narrative, texts, and discourse. In Part One, Semiotic Insights, she introduces the reader to the fundamental tenets and metatheory of the fields of linguistics and semiotics. She explores the multifaceted cooperation and tension between them, their shared threads and subthemes, the role of language in both, the tools of each discipline, and their relationship to other disciplines, especially biology and medicine. In Part Two, The Data Do the Talking, hard linguistic data are exposed and analysed within the semiotic paradigm. Using well-proven linguistic tools, Rauch's semiotic method lends insight into the dynamics of how language changes and grows.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Leitmotifs at the Nexus of Semiotics and Linguistics -- Part One -- 1. Semiotics: A Fire in the Belly -- 2. Saussure: Roots of Today's Linguistics -- 3. Linguistics and Semiotics Juxtaposed — 1 -- 4. Peirce and Linguistics -- 5. Semiotics and Metalanguage -- 6. Language as Inlay in Semiosis -- 7. The Narrative Inlay in Semiosis -- 8. Narrative Configurated with Text and Discourse -- 9. Protosemiotic -- 10. Protosemiotists -- 11. Semiotics: At the Turn of the Millennium -- Part Two -- 12. Spelling of Sounds and Iconism -- 13. Accompanying Sound: Paralanguage -- 14. Causality -- 15. Analogy -- 16. Linguistics and Semiotics Juxtaposed — 2 -- 17. A Language Evolves -- 18. Interlingual Translation of Signs -- 19. Language Change/Growth Begins -- 20. The Lie -- Conclusion: Facts and Human Factors -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index