From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Wed 10 Sep 2003 - 02:09:22 GMT
The godfather of semiotics is Charles Sanders Peirce, and the
other most notable past and contemporary theorists are Charles Morris,
Louis Hjelmslev, Ferdinand de Saussure, Algirdas Julien Greimas,
Umberto Eco, Thomas Sebeok, John Deely, and Jorgen Dines
Johansen.
Good introductory works include INTRODUCING SEMIOTICS:
ITS HISTORY AND DOCTRINE and BASICS OF SEMIOTICS, both by
John Deely, SIGNS IN USE: AN INTRODUCTION TO SEMIOTICS by
Jorgen Dines Johansen, and FOUNDATIONS OF THE THEORY OF
SIGNS by Charles Morris.
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