Semiotics
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Semiotics is the study of meaning-making, the theory of signs and symbols.
Theorists
- Fernando Andacht
- 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
- Teresa de Lauretis
- 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
- Roland Barthes, "Éléments de Sémiologie", Communications 4, 1964, pp 91-135; repr. as Eléments de sémiologie, Paris: Denoël/Gonthier, 1965. Excerpts. (in French)
- Elementos de semiologia, trans. Izidoro Blikstein, São Paulo: Editôra Cultrix, 1971. (in Portuguese)
- Elements of Semiology, trans. Annette Lavers and Colin Smith, New York: Hill and Wang, 1977.
