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Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as semiotics)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,789 ratings — published 1957
A Theory of Semiotics (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as semiotics)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,425 ratings — published 1975
Semiotics: The Basics (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.99 — 648 ratings — published 2002
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as semiotics)
avg rating 4.14 — 409,909 ratings — published 1980
Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as semiotics)
avg rating 4.09 — 529 ratings — published
Course in General Linguistics (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,841 ratings — published 1916
Introducing Semiotics (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.60 — 875 ratings — published 1993
Elements of Semiology (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,076 ratings — published 1964
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as semiotics)
avg rating 4.00 — 82,402 ratings — published 1980
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as semiotics)
avg rating 4.00 — 17,745 ratings — published 1981
Image - Music - Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as semiotics)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,847 ratings — published 1977
Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,182 ratings — published 1997
The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as semiotics)
avg rating 4.09 — 297 ratings — published 1979
The Limits of Interpretation (Advances in Semiotics)
by (shelved 19 times as semiotics)
avg rating 4.13 — 563 ratings — published 1990
The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as semiotics)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,144 ratings — published 1973
Empire of Signs (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,738 ratings — published 1970
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.95 — 462,316 ratings — published 1972
Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as semiotics)
avg rating 4.05 — 542 ratings — published 1980
S/Z: An Essay (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as semiotics)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,951 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 — 90 ratings — published 1990
Foucault’s Pendulum (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.91 — 77,027 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 — 12,800 ratings — published 1955
Serendipities: Language and Lunacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,546 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 — 347 ratings — published 2007
Man and His Symbols (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as semiotics)
avg rating 4.18 — 36,679 ratings — published 1964
The Sign of Three: Dupin, Holmes, Peirce (Advances in Semiotics)
by (shelved 9 times as semiotics)
avg rating 4.02 — 135 ratings — published 1983
Travels in Hyperreality (Harvest Book)
by (shelved 9 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,940 ratings — published 1967
Signs: An Introduction to Semiotics (Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication)
by (shelved 9 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.70 — 92 ratings — published 1994
The Fashion System (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.63 — 454 ratings — published 1967
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as semiotics)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,244 ratings — published 1980
The Semiotic Challenge (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.83 — 173 ratings — published 1985
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as semiotics)
avg rating 4.35 — 14,946 ratings — published 1977
Film Language: A Semiotics of the Cinema (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.80 — 254 ratings — published 1968
Misreadings (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,048 ratings — published 1963
Semiotics for Beginners (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.85 — 67 ratings — published 1999
The Search for the Perfect Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.96 — 874 ratings — published 1993
Of Grammatology (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,425 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 — 7,216 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 — 70,360 ratings — published 2004
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as semiotics)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,499 ratings — published 1994
The Savage Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,804 ratings — published 1962
Semiotics of Cinema (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as semiotics)
avg rating 4.02 — 173 ratings — published 1973
The System of Objects (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as semiotics)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,003 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 — 933 ratings — published 1962
A Dictionary of Symbols (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as semiotics)
avg rating 4.15 — 888 ratings — published 1958
Introducing Social Semiotics (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as semiotics)
avg rating 3.85 — 55 ratings — published 2004
“No algorithm exists for the metaphor, nor can a metaphor be produced by means of a computer’s precise instructions, no matter what the volume of organized information to be fed in. The success of a metaphor is a function of the sociocultural format of the interpreting subjects; encyclopedia. In this perspective, metaphors are produced solely on the basis of a rich cultural framework, on the basis, that is, of a universe of content that is already organized into networks of interpretation, which decide semiotically) the identities and differences of properties.”
― Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language
― Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language
“Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used "to tell" at all.”
― A Theory of Semiotics
― A Theory of Semiotics