The Routledge Companion to Semiotics and Linguistics (Routledge Companions)

Nonverbal Communication / Thomas A. Sebeok -- Charles Sanders Peirce's Concept Of The Sign / Floyd Merrell -- The Origins Of Language / William C. Stokoe -- Language In The Ecology Of The Mind / Ray Jackendoff -- Sociolinguistics And Social Semiotics / Gunther Kress -- Pragmatics / Jef Verschueren -- Language Change / Jean Aitchison -- The Chomskyan Revolutions / Raphael Salkie -- Linguistics After Saussure / Roy Harris -- Discourse / Nikolas Coupland And Adam Jaworski. Edited By Paul Cobley. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 289-318) And Index. "The Routledge Companion to Semiotics and Linguistics" combines the complex and closely-related fields of semiotics and linguistics. The book has 10 introductory essays and over 200 A-Z entries which cover: key concepts such as abduction, chain of discourse, grapheme, metalanguage, philology, and syntax; key individuals including Bakhtin, Chomsky, Lacan, Saussure, and William of Ockham; key theories and schools, including American structuralism, pragmaticism, and Russian formalism. "The Routledge Companion to Semiotics and Linguistics" should open up the world of semiotics and linguistics for newcomers to the discipline, and provide a useful ready-reference for the more advanced student Content: Nonverbal communication / Thomas A. Sebeok -- Charles Sanders Peirce's concept of the sign / Floyd Merrell -- The origins of language / William C. Stokoe -- Language in the ecology of the mind / Ray Jackendoff -- Sociolinguistics and social semiotics / Gunther Kress -- Pragmatics / Jef Verschueren -- Language change / Jean Aitchison -- The Chomskyan revolutions / Raphael Salkie -- Linguistics after Saussure / Roy Harris -- Discourse / Nikolas Coupland and Adam Jaworski.

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.

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 *key concepts such as abduction, code, modelling, philology and syntax *key Bakhtin, Chomsky, Peirce, Saussure, Sebeok and others *key theories and schools, including American structuralism, pragmatism and the Prague School. The book is a reference resource to combine the complex and closely related fields of semiotics and linguistics. Ten essays cover the following concepts: abduction, code, grapheme, modelling, philology and syntax. It also focuses on theories and schools, including American structuralism, pragmatism and the Prague School This reference combines the complex and closely-related fields of semiotics and linguistics. The book has 10 introductory essays and over 200 A-Z entries which cover key concepts, key individuals and key theories and schools in the field. It would be difficult to imagine someone who was not interested in communication; someone who, for one reason or another, was never engaged in investigating the nature of specific messages or even the nature of messages in general. The Routledge Companion to Semiotics and Linguistics opens up the world of semiotics and linguistics for newcomers to the discipline, and provides a useful ready-reference for the more advanced student.