Contributions to the Doctrine of Signs

by Thomas Albert Sebeok

Studies in semiotics, #5

An early work by groundbreaking semiotician Thomas A. Sebeok, this is a collection of eleven essays aligned with the semiotic tradition of Locke and Peirce -- Sebeok's contribution, as it were, towards an actual "doctrine" of "signs." This excellent 1986 edition contains a new prefatory essay by Brooke Williams.

271 pages, Hardcover

First published January 13, 1986

About the author

Thomas Albert Sebeok or Sebők was a prominent linguist and semiotician, and editor-in-chief of the leading periodical in the field, Semiotica, from its 1969 founding until 2001. He earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1945. He is counted among the originators of the field of biosemiotics, and was highly influential in the study of non-human signaling and communication systems.

Sebeok was survived by his wife (and frequent co-author), Jean Umiker-Sebeok