Semiotics

Semiotics is the study of meaning-making, the theory of signs and symbols.

Writers, theorists

• Fernando Andacht
• Norbert-Bertrand Barbe
• Roland Barthes
• Pierluigi Basso Fossali
• Max Bense
• Émile Benveniste
• Basil Bernstein
• Jacques Bertin
• Denis Bertrand
• Per Aage Brandt
• François Cheng
• Marcel Danesi
• John Deely
• Jacques Derrida
• Umberto Eco
• Achim Eschbach
• Paolo Fabbri
• Erika Fischer-Lichte
• Jean-Marie Floch
• Jacques Fontanille
• Gérard Genette
• Julien Greimas
• Louis Hjelmslev
• Jean-Marie Klinkenberg
• Julia Kristeva
• Jean Lauzon
• Yuri Lotman
• Solomon Marcus
• Christian Metz
• Walter Mignolo
• Stefan Morawski
• Charles W. Morris
• Winfried Nöth
• Charles Sanders Peirce
• Valentina Pisanty
• John Poinsot
• François Rastier
• Isaak Revzin
• Ferdinand de Saussure
• Thomas Sebeok
• Cesare Segre
• Sebastian Shaumyan
• Tzvetan Todorov
• Jakob von Uexküll
• Boris Uspensky
• Genevieve Vaughan
• Patrizia Violi
• Elisabeth Walther-Bense
• Thomas G. Winner
• Claude Zilberberg
• Peter V. Zima
• Groupe µ

Selected literature

• Umberto Eco, Opera aperta, 1962. (Italian)
  • The Open Work, trans. Anna Cancogni, Harvard University Press, 1989.

• Roland Barthes, "Éléments de Sémiologie", Communications 4, 1964, pp 91-135; repr. as Eléments de sémiologie, Paris: Denoël/Gonthier, 1965. Excerpts. (French)
  • Elementos de semiología, trans. Alberto Méndez, Madrid: Alberto Corazón, 1971. (Spanish) [1].
  • Elementos de semiologia, trans. Izidoro Blikstein, São Paulo: Cultrix, 1971. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Elements of Semiology, trans. Annette Lavers and Colin Smith, New York: Hill and Wang, 1977, ARG.

• Max Bense, Semiotik. Allgemeine Theorie der Zeichen, Baden-Baden: Agis, 1967. (German)

• Julia Kristeva, Séméiôtiké: recherches pour une sémanalyse, Paris: Seuil, 1969. (French)
  • Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art, Oxford: Blackwell, 1980.

• Michel Pêcheux, Les vérités de la Palice, Paris: Maspéro, 1975. (French)
  • Language, Semiotics, and Ideology, trans. Harbans Nagpal, London: MacMillan, 1982; New York: St Martin's Press, 1982, ARG.

• Jonathan Culler, The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction, Cornell University Press, 1981; repr., Routledge, 2003.

• Teresa De Lauretis, Alice Doesn't: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema, London: Macmillan, 1984, 219 pp.
  • Alicia ya no: feminismo, semiótica, cine, trans. Silvia Iglesias Recuero, Madrid: Cátedra, 1992, 295 pp. (Spanish)

Anthologies

• Anna Maria Lorusso (eds.), Semiotica, Milan: Raffaello Cortina, 2005, PDF. (Italian)

Handbooks, Introductions

• Terence Hawkes, Structuralism and Semiotics, London and New York: Routledge, 1977; 2nd ed., 2003, PDF.
• Kaja Silverman, The Subject of Semiotics, Oxford University Press, 1983, PDF, ARG.
• Winfried Nöth, Handbook of Semiotics, Indiana University Press, 1995, PDF.
• Graham Allen, Intertextuality, London and New York: Routledge, 2000, IA, ARG.
• Daniel Chandler, Semiotics: The Basics, London and New York: Routledge, 2001; 2nd ed., 2007, PDF.