Semiotics

Semiotics (also called semiotic studies); is the study of meaning-making, the study of sign process (semiosis) and meaningful communication. It is not to be confused with the Saussurean tradition called semiology which is a subset of semiotics. This includes the study of signs and sign processes, indication, designation, likeness, analogy, allegory, metonymy, metaphor, symbolism, signification, and communication.

The semiotic tradition explores the study of signs and symbols as a significant part of communications. As different from linguistics, however, semiotics also studies non-linguistic si
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Mythologies
A Theory of Semiotics
Semiotics: The Basics
Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language
The Name of the Rose
Introducing Semiotics
Course in General Linguistics
Elements of Semiology
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition
Simulacra and Simulation
The Limits of Interpretation (Advances in Semiotics)
The Pleasure of the Text
Image - Music - Text
The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts
Man and His Symbols by C.G. JungLabyrinth by Gaetano CipollaMeaning in the Visual Arts by Erwin PanofskyJuice of Life. The Symbolic and Magic Significance of Blood by Piero CamporesiSerpent's Tale by Gregory McNamee
Books About Symbols & Their Meanings
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Seven Beyond by Stella AtriumThe Consolation of Philosophy by BoethiusPhilosophy of Evil by Lars Fredrik Händler SvendsenThe Art of War and Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy by Sun TzuMonty Python and Philosophy by Gary L. Hardcastle
books with ‘philosophy’ in title
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BREAKING THE BIAS OF ENGLISH by Vivian ProbstExophony by Yōko TawadaAfrikan Alphabets by Saki MafundikwaText Structure by Nelly TinchevaThe Power of Babel by Michel Pierssens
•Lingualish'tics
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Journey to the West by Biao  WangThe Blindspots Between Us by Gleb TsipurskyAdapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavir... by Gleb TsipurskyPro Truth by Gleb TsipurskyMythologies by Roland Barthes
For Culture Watchers
203 books — 101 voters

The Semiotics of Fortune Telling by Edna AphekThe Semiotics of Clowns and Clowning by Paul BouissacThe Role of the Reader by Umberto EcoMemoirs of an Anti-Semite by Gregor von RezzoriAs It Were by Rosaire Appel
"Semi"-Crazy
134 books — 8 voters
Film Music by Juan ChattahEmbodied Cognition and Cinema by Mark JohnsonFilm as Embodied Art by Maarten CoëgnartsPsychology of Music by Siu-Lan TanMusic as Image by Benjamin Nagari
Film Music Cognition
14 books — 1 voter


Umberto Eco
Perhaps we are, somewhere, the deep impulse which generates semiosis, And yet we recognize ourselves only as semiosis in progress, signifying systems and communicational processes. The map of semiosis, as defined at a given stage of historical development (with the debris carried over from previous semiosis), tells us who we are and what (or how) we think.
Umberto Eco, Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language

Jean Baudrillard
There is no reason to assume that the unceasing forward march of techne will not eventually achieve a mimesis which replaces a natural world with an intelligible artificial one. If the simulacrum is so well designed that it becomes an effective organizer of reality, then surely it is man, not the simulacrum, who is turned into an abstraction.
Jean Baudrillard, The System of Objects

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