Semiotics

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

Theorists

Selected literature

  • Umberto Eco, Opera aperta, 1962. (Italian)
    • The Open Work, trans. Anna Cancogni, Harvard University Press, 1989.
  • Michel Pêcheux, Les vérités de la Palice, Paris: Maspéro, 1975. (French)
Theory
  • David S. Clarke, Principles of Semiotic, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987.
  • Eugen Baer, Medical Semiotics. The State of the Art, Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1988.
  • John N. Deely, Basics of Semiotics Advances in Semiotics, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1990.
  • Terence Hawkes, Structuralism and Semiotics, London and New York: Routledge, 1977; 2nd edition, 2003, PDF.
Anthologies
  • Anna Maria Lorusso (eds.), Semiotica, Milan: Raffaello Cortina, 2005, PDF. (Italian)
Encyclopedias
  • Winfried Nöth, Handbook of Semiotics, Indiana University Press, 1995.


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