Routledge Companion to Semiotics

<p><em>The Routledge Companion to Semiotics</em> provides the ideal introduction to semiotics, containing engaging essays from an impressive range of international leaders in the field.</p><p>Topics covered include:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>the history, development, and uses of semiotics </li> <p> </p> <li>key theorists, including Saussure, Peirce and Sebeok</li> <p> </p> <li>crucial and contemporary topics such as biosemiotics, sociosemiotics and semioethics </li> <p> </p> <li>the semiotics of media and culture, nature and cognition. </li> </ul><p>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.</p> <p>Understanding Semiosis. Ancient Semiotics. Semiotics of Nature. Umwelt and Modelling. Logic and Cognition. Realism and Epistemology. Pierce, Phenomenology and Semiotics. The Saussurean Heritage. Sociosemiotics. Semiotics of Media and Culture. Semioethics</p>