The Routledge companion to semiotics and linguistics

Author(s)

• Cobley, Paul

Bibliographic Information

The Routledge companion to semiotics and linguistics

edited by Paul Cobley

（Routledge companions）

Routledge, 2001

• : hbk
• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-318) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Edited by communications specialist Paul Cobley, this Routledge Companion it has ten introductory essays written by pace-setting figures in the field. These are followed by over 200 A-Z entries which cover: *key concepts such as abduction, code, modelling, philology and syntax *key individuals: Bakhtin, Chomsky, Peirce, Saussure, Sebeok and others *key theories and schools, including American structuralism, pragmatism and the Prague School.

Table of Contents

• Using this book. Part I Semiosis, communication and language: introduction, Paul Cobley
• nonverbal communication, Thomas A. Sebeok
• Charles Sanders Peirce's concept of the sign, Floyd Merrell
• the origins of language, William C. Stokoe
• language and the ecology of the mind, Ray Jackendoff
• sociolinguistics and social semiotics
• pragmatics, Jef Verschueren
• language change, Jean Aitchison
• the Chomskyan revolutions, Raphael Salkie
• linguistics after Saussure, Roy Harris
• discourse, Nikolas Coupland and Adam Jaworski. Part II Key themes and major figures in semiotics and linguistics.

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Details

• NCID: BA52145225
• ISBN:
  • 0415243130
  • 0415243149
• LCCN: 01019312
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 326 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : P121
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Linguistics
  • LCSH : Semiotics
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA5255738X