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Umberto Eco
Paperback | Pages: 368 pages Rating: 4.01 | 1155 Users | 43 Reviews
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| Original Title: | A Theory of Semiotics |
| ISBN: | 0253202175 (ISBN13: 9780253202178) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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..". the greatest contribution to [semiotics] since the pioneering work of C. S. Peirce and Charles Morris." --Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism..". draws on philosophy, linguistics, sociology, anthropology and aesthetics and refers to a wide range of scholarship... raises many fascinating questions." --Language in Society
..". a major contribution to the field of semiotic studies." --Robert Scholes, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
..". the most significant text on the subject published in the English language that I know of." --Arthur Asa Berger, Journal of Communication
Eco's treatment demonstrates his mastery of the field of semiotics. It focuses on the twin problems of the doctrine of signs--communication and signification--and offers a highly original theory of sign production, including a carefully wrought typology of signs and modes of production.
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| Title | : | A Theory of Semiotics |
| Author | : | Umberto Eco |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 368 pages |
| Published | : | February 1st 1978 by Indiana University Press |
| Categories | : | Philosophy. Nonfiction. Linguistics. Semiotics. Humanities. Language. Theory |
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Ratings: 4.01 From 1155 Users | 43 ReviewsAppraise Containing Books A Theory of Semiotics
Very good book but a difficult read.I'm going to go back and read Hjemslev before trying this again...
Impenetrable. But that's probably me and not him--he's brilliant, but I'm new to this and this is not a primer. I read it because I had to, at about 10 pages per hour, and they were very long hours. It's a pet peeve of mine when someone is in essence lecturing on a topic and they slip in and out of foreign languages for paragraphs at a time, then go on to build their own arguements on the untranslated text. Of course if you're reading this of your own voilition, maybe you've already read
I feel like Eco's book occupies a sort of awkward position for a lot of semioticians. On one hand, it's overly descriptive for a lot of purposes, and this becomes evident when you look at critical theorists who utilise semiotics, i.e Barthes, Althusser, that there really is no particular need to delve into as much detail as does Eco, and so therefore it seems more useful to isolate certain portions of Eco's text for reference (i.e for an ideological critique, his sections on ideology). But on
yeah, uhm, Eco's irony is always so crassly insistent______but EHY, good.
Nobody tell Escalante I gave this 3 stars.
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