The Routledge Companion to Semiotics provides the ideal introduction to semi-
otics, containing engaging essays from an impressive range of international
leaders in the field.
Topics covered include:
? the history, development and uses of semiotics
? key theorists, including Saussure, Peirce and Sebeok
? crucial and contemporary topics such as biosemiotics, sociosemiotics and
semioethics
? the semiotics of media and culture, nature and cognition.
Featuring an extended glossary of key terms and thinkers as well as suggestions
for further reading, this is an invaluable reference guide for students of semiotics
at all levels.
Paul Cobley is Reader in Communications at London Metropolitan University.
His publications include Introducing Semiotics (with Litza Jansz); The American
Thriller: Generic Innovation and Social Change in the 1970s; Narrative; and, as
editor, The Communication Theory Reader; The Routledge Companion to
Semiotics and Linguistics;a Communication Theories (4 vols); and Realism for
the 21st Century: A John Deely Reader.
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