The Routledge Companion to Semiotics provides the ideal introduction to semiotics, containing engaging essays from an impressive range of international leaders in the field.

Topics:

the history, development, and uses of semiotics

key theorists, including Saussure, Peirce and Sebeok

crucial and contemporary topics such as biosemiotics, sociosemiotics and semioethics

the semiotics of media and culture, nature and cognition.

This is an invaluable reference guide for students of semiotics at all levels.