Semiotics

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

Writers, theorists[edit]

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.

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)

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

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.

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