A Perfusion of Signs / edited by Thomas A. Sebeok ; contributors, Diana Agrest [and others].
This collection celebrates the founding of the Semiotics Society of America. The ten essays cover various aspects of semiotics, ranging from its medical foundations to philosophical concerns, logic, the arts, and social science perspectives. The title echoes a remark by the great American founder of...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bloomington : : Indiana University Press,, 1977. ©1977. |
| Year of Publication: | 1977 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Advances in semiotics
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 online resource xi, 212 pages) :; illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Criteria for semiosis / Rulon S. Wells
- Peirce's theory of signs / J. Jay Zeman
- Logical basis of semiotics / Henry Hiz
- Poetics and verbal art / Edward Stankiewicz
- Unexpected semiotic implications of medical inquiry / Harley C. Shands and James D. Meltzer
- Semiotics and the limits of architecture / Diana Agrest and Mario Gandelsonas
- The contribution of musical semiotics to the semiotic discussion in general / Jean-Jacques Nattiez
- Semiotics and spectacles: the circus institution and representations / Paul Bouissac
- Semiotics and culture / Erik Schwimmer
- Ecumenicalism in semiotics / Thomas A. Sebeok.