Dalla scienza dei segni alla semiotica del testo. Il campo semiotico e le teorie della significazione
In contemporary discussions of signs, the distinction between “semiology” and “semiotics” is not merely terminological. John Deely shows that this divergence involves two different ways of conceiving the sign, language, and the relation between culture and nature. Deely first reconstructs the lexicographical history of the two terms. “Semiology” appears in English dictionaries as early as…
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…