Semiotics

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

Writers, 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)
  • Daniel Chandler, Semiotics: The Basics, London and New York: Routledge, 2001; 2nd edition, 2007,PDF.
  • Terence Hawkes, Structuralism and Semiotics, London and New York: Routledge, 1977; 2nd ed., 2003, PDF.
  • Jonathan Culler, The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction, Cornell University Press, 1981; reprint, Routlegde, 2003, PDF.
  • Kaja Silverman, The Subject of Semiotics, Oxford University Press, 1983, PDF.
Anthologies
  • Anna Maria Lorusso (eds.), Semiotica, Milan: Raffaello Cortina, 2005, PDF. (Italian)
Encyclopedias
  • Winfried Nöth, Handbook of Semiotics, Indiana University Press, 1995.