Dalla scienza dei segni alla semiotica del testo. Il campo semiotico e le teorie della significazione
Halliday describes how, for many years, writings on linguistic “behaviour” opened by criticizing linguists who limited themselves to the “code.” This limitation, he notes, had been “accepted as a fact of life,” even though it resulted from a specific historical phase in which code and behaviour were “rigorously held apart.” Only recently had the two…
Roman Jakobson once observed that “for all human beings, and only for human beings, language is the vehicle of mental life and communication.” Richard L. Lanigan takes this statement as the starting point for exploring how communication theory and semiotics converge as two faces of the same human comportment. His goal is not merely to…