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Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as semiotics)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,703 ratings — published 1957
A Theory of Semiotics (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as semiotics)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,422 ratings — published 1975
Semiotics: The Basics (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.99 — 642 ratings — published 2002
Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as semiotics)
avg rating 4.08 — 527 ratings — published
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as semiotics)
avg rating 4.14 — 407,574 ratings — published 1980
Course in General Linguistics (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,815 ratings — published 1916
Elements of Semiology (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,071 ratings — published 1964
Introducing Semiotics (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.60 — 871 ratings — published 1993
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.99 — 80,950 ratings — published 1980
Image - Music - Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as semiotics)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,838 ratings — published 1977
Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,177 ratings — published 1997
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as semiotics)
avg rating 4.00 — 17,594 ratings — published 1981
The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as semiotics)
avg rating 4.08 — 295 ratings — published 1979
The Limits of Interpretation (Advances in Semiotics)
by (shelved 19 times as semiotics)
avg rating 4.13 — 560 ratings — published 1990
The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as semiotics)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,101 ratings — published 1973
Empire of Signs (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,718 ratings — published 1970
Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as semiotics)
avg rating 4.05 — 538 ratings — published 1980
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.95 — 457,593 ratings — published 1972
S/Z: An Essay (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as semiotics)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,934 ratings — published 1970
Universe of the Mind: A Semiotic Theory of Culture (The Second World)
by (shelved 12 times as semiotics)
avg rating 4.20 — 89 ratings — published 1990
Foucault’s Pendulum (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.91 — 76,611 ratings — published 1988
Handbook of Semiotics (Advances in Semiotics)
by (shelved 11 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.87 — 55 ratings — published 2004
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as semiotics)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,746 ratings — published 1955
Serendipities: Language and Lunacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,539 ratings — published 1998
This Means This, This Means That: A User's Guide to Semiotics (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.85 — 346 ratings — published 2007
Man and His Symbols (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as semiotics)
avg rating 4.18 — 36,217 ratings — published 1964
Travels in Hyperreality (Harvest Book)
by (shelved 9 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,930 ratings — published 1967
The Fashion System (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.62 — 450 ratings — published 1967
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as semiotics)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,203 ratings — published 1980
The Sign of Three: Dupin, Holmes, Peirce (Advances in Semiotics)
by (shelved 8 times as semiotics)
avg rating 4.02 — 135 ratings — published 1983
The Semiotic Challenge (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.83 — 170 ratings — published 1985
Signs: An Introduction to Semiotics (Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication)
by (shelved 8 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.69 — 90 ratings — published 1994
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as semiotics)
avg rating 4.35 — 14,802 ratings — published 1977
Film Language: A Semiotics of the Cinema (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.80 — 252 ratings — published 1968
Misreadings (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,036 ratings — published 1963
Semiotics for Beginners (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.85 — 67 ratings — published 1999
Semiotics of Cinema (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as semiotics)
avg rating 4.01 — 170 ratings — published 1973
The Search for the Perfect Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.96 — 869 ratings — published 1993
Of Grammatology (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,415 ratings — published 1967
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as semiotics)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,629 ratings — published 1975
The Seventh Function of Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.76 — 7,166 ratings — published 2015
A Theory of Musical Semiotics (Advances in Semiotics)
by (shelved 6 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.50 — 8 ratings — published 1994
History of Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.82 — 69,547 ratings — published 2004
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as semiotics)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,463 ratings — published 1994
The Savage Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,800 ratings — published 1962
The System of Objects (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as semiotics)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,994 ratings — published 1968
On Meaning: Selected Writings in Semiotic Theory (Theory and History of Literature)
by (shelved 6 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.87 — 31 ratings — published 1983
The Open Work (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as semiotics)
avg rating 4.14 — 928 ratings — published 1962
A Dictionary of Symbols (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as semiotics)
avg rating 4.15 — 886 ratings — published 1958
Introducing Social Semiotics (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.85 — 55 ratings — published 2004
“Every view which interprets the symbolic expression as an analogous or abbreviated expression of a known thing is semiotic. A view which interprets the symbolic expression as the best possible formulation of a relatively unknown thing, which for that reason cannot be more clearly or characteristically represented, is symbolic. A view which interprets the symbolic expression as an intentional paraphrase or transmogrification of a known thing is allegoric. The interpretation of the cross as a symbol of divine love is semiotic, because “divine love” describes the fact to be expressed better and more aptly than a cross, which can have many other meanings. On the other hand, an interpretation of the cross is symbolic when it puts the cross beyond all conceivable explanations, regarding it as expressing an as yet unknown and incomprehensible fact of a mystical or transcendent, i.e., psychological, nature, which simply finds itself most appropriately represented in the cross.”
― Psychological Types
― Psychological Types
“Perception is always interrogative and conditional and is invariably based (even if we do not realize it) on a bet.”
― Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language
― Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language