Semiotics and Language: An Analytical Dictionary (AD) is the most ambitious attempt to date to provide a comprehensive lexicon as well as a coherent theoretical framework for the study of semiotics. Generally speaking, it embraces historical and interdisciplinary aspects of semiotics along with American, Continental, and Russian traditions. However, on the latter point it should be stated from the outset that the French tradition, with its special emphasis on Saussurean and Hjelmslevian linguistics, prevails.
In Other Words has been the definitive coursebook for students studying translation for nearly three decades. Assuming no knowledge of foreign languages, it offers a practical guide based on extensive research in areas as varied as lexis, grammar, pragmatics, semiotics and ethics. It thus provides a solid basis for training a new generation of well-informed, critical students of translation.
Drawing on linguistic theory and social semiotics, the third edition of this best-selling text guides trainee translators through the variety of decisions they will have to make throughout their career.
Following the successful Basics format, this is the book for anyone coming to semiotics for the first time. Using jargon-free language and lively, up-to-date examples, Semiotics: The Basics demystifies this highly interdisciplinary subject. Along the way, the reader will find out what a sign and a text are, what codes we take for granted, how semiotics can be used in textual analysis and who Saussure, Peirce, Barthes and Jakobson are and why they are important. Features include a glossary of key terms and realistic suggestions for further reading.
Jacques Fontanille's The Semiotics of Discourse fills a long-standing need for a clear, comprehensive overview of narrative semiotic theory. The book skillfully blends a historical perspective with an emphasis on recent developments. Outstanding features include a clear, thorough exposition; numerous examples drawn from sports, cooking, and literature; a balance of introductory overview and detailed analysis; figures that graphically represent the ideas expressed; and suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter. The book will be of interest to both scholars and students in semiotics, linguistics, literary theory, and the study of narrative.
The symposium on new directions in linguistics and semiotics that took place in Houston, Texas, on March 18 — 20, 1982, was held to celebrate the inauguration of the new Department of Linguistics and Semiotics at Rice University and its new doctoral program in linguistics. The symposium also marked the return of Sydney M. Lamb to full-time academic life after four years in the computer industry. The new department had grown out of an interdepartmental linguistics program, and the event brought to fruition almost two decades of effort by the linguistics faculty at Rice....