From Sign to Text (Foundations of Semiotics) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 902723292X ISBN 13: 9789027232922

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1989

Synopsis

This volume contains selected contributions from the colloquium From Sign to Text' (Ben Gurion University, 1985) and combines the diverse interdisciplinary interests and approaches of the contributors in a fundamentally shared definition of language seen as a flexible and open-ended system of systems' revolving around the notion of signs used by human beings to communicate. The special interrelationship between signs and texts is discussed both theoretically and methodologically. The collection consists of an English and a French section.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 902723292X
• ISBN 13: 9789027232922
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 559
• Editor: Tobin Yishai