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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.

Lexicology. Semantics --- 801.7 --- 82:003 --- Semiotics --- -82:003 Semiotiek in de literatuur --- Semiotiek in de literatuur --- 801.7 Taalkundige semiotiek --- Taalkundige semiotiek --- Semeiotics --- Semiology (Linguistics) --- Semantics --- Signs and symbols --- Structuralism (Literary analysis) --- Congresses --- Discourse analysis --- 82:003 Semiotiek in de literatuur

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Signs in Use is an accessible introduction to the study of semiotics.All organisms, from bees to computer networks, create signs, communicate, and exchange information. The field of semiotics explores the ways in which we use these signs to make inferences about the nature of the world.Signs in Use cuts across different semiotic schools to introduce six basic concepts which present semiotics as a theory and a set of analytical tools: code, sign, discourse, action, text, and culture. Moving from the most simple to the most complex concept, the book gradually widens the

Semiotics. --- Signs and symbols. --- Sémiotique --- Signes et symboles --- 003 --- 801.7 --- Semiotiek. Schriften. Tekens en symbolen. Codes. Grafische voorstellingen --- Taalkundige semiotiek --- 801.7 Taalkundige semiotiek --- 003 Semiotiek. Schriften. Tekens en symbolen. Codes. Grafische voorstellingen --- Sémiotique --- Representation, Symbolic --- Semeiotics --- Signs --- Symbolic representation --- Symbols --- Abbreviations --- Omens --- Semiotics --- Sign language --- Symbolism --- Visual communication --- Semiology (Linguistics) --- Semantics --- Signs and symbols --- Structuralism (Literary analysis)

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Picturing the Language of Images is a collection of thirty-three previously unpublished essays that explore the complex and ever-evolving interaction between the verbal and the visual. The uniqueness of this volume lies in its bringing together scholars from around the world to provide a broad synchronic and diachronic exploration of the relationship between text and image, as well as a reflection on the limits of representation through a re-thinking of the very acts of reading and viewing. W...

Visual learning. --- Imagery (Psychology) in literature. --- Learning, Visual --- Learning --- Semiotics --- semiotics --- beeldtaal --- semiotiek --- lezen

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This book serves as a basis for the exploration of language in a more systematic way. The main impetus for writing this book derives from the fact that linguistics and semiotics are two fields of study that need to be brought together under one compass because language is what is known as the “passkey semiotic,” i.e. the system of signs that underlies all other sign systems owing to its foundational status. Due to the current balkanization of linguistics as an academic discipline, the academic study of language structure rarely if ever incorporates the insights of semiotics and semioticians when presenting its material. By surveying the several major divisions of language (phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis, tropology) and explicating the way in which sound and meaning cohere in them, this text lays bare––for students, scholars and advanced readers alike––the lineaments of an understanding of what makes language the sign system par excellence, in the service of its most important function as the instrument of cognition and of communication. This book is intended as a companion volume to Shapiro’s The Speaking Self: Language Lore and English Usage. The two volumes taken in tandem will provide a solid grounding in the observational science of linguistics, linking theory with practice in a way that will expand one’s understanding of language as a global phenomenon. .

Semiotics --- Philosophy of language --- semiotiek --- taalfilosofie --- Semiotics. --- Language and languages --- Philosophy of Language. --- Philosophy.

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"This book offers an introduction to the language of law from the perspective of logical semantics. As a logical tool, Boguslaw Wolniewiczs formal ontology of situations is adapted. The central issue addressed is the meaning of normative statements, primarily legal norms. The main outcome of the book consists in explications of several legal notions (including legal events, legal acts and legal rules) in terms of the formal ontology of situations. In addition, the book concludes that legal norms are sentences in a logical sense, so some are true, while others are false, and that their logical value does not depend on whether or not they were adopted in the law-making process. Lastly, the book contends that there are semantic relations between orders that are similar to entailment, contradiction, opposition, and sub-opposition, despite the fact that orders are not sentences in a logical sense, i.e., they are neither true nor false. The book also presents some original Wittgenstein-style deontic logics built on the first order logic. The formal results are applied to selected problems in the theory of law, including the problem of the possibility of algorithmic application of legal norms"--Publisher's description.

Semiotics --- Legal theory and methods. Philosophy of law --- Law --- History --- geschiedenis --- semiotiek --- Semantics (Law) --- Language.