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History of Semiotics
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1983; US$ 203.00This volume brings together a collection of papers on the general theoretical and methodological problems in the historiography of semiotics. It is not a history in the conventional sense, even though the main periods and figures in the development of semiotics are given due prominence. Nevertheless, it should offer the reader stimulation and food... more...
Semiological Investigations, or Topics Pertaining to the General Theory of Signs
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1991; US$ 165.00Reprint of the original Latin text Tentamina semiologica, sive quaedam generalem theoriam signorum spectantia (1789), edited, translated and with an Introduction by Robert E. Innis The 33 sections of this classic text by Hoffbauer have a twofold focus: a descriptive inventory of signs, and a comparison of the expressive and cognitive powers of different... more...
Semiotics and Dialectics
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1981; US$ 224.00Between Signs and Non-Signs
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1992; US$ 173.00The Italian philosopher F. Rossi-Landi (1921-1985) conducted pioneering work in the philosophy of language. His research is characterised by a critique of language and ideology in relation to sign production processes and the process of social reproduction. Between Signs and Non-Signs is a collection of 14 articles by Rossi-Landi written between... more...
Essays on Significs
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1989; US$ 197.00Significs is one of those (by no means exclusively) sign theoretically relevant movements which arose at the turn of the century. It established a philosophical tradition which, from its very inception, was interlaced with widely varying movements ranging, for example, from Breal's semantics to Carnap's and Neurath's logical empiricism. In this volume,... more...
From Sign to Text
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1989; US$ 240.00This 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... more...
Logical Semiotics & Mereology
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1992; US$ 180.00The papers in this volume are concerned with a variety of vitally important topics in philosophical logic, the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of science, and in the application of modern logic to wider philosophical problems. All of them make fundamental use, in one way or another, of logical semiotics, the modern... more...
Semiotics and Pragmatics
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1989; US$ 240.00This collective volume contains carefully selected papers presented at the international semiotics conference ?Semiotique et pragmatique? that took place in Perpignan on 17 to 19 November, 1983. The volume starts of with four debate papers by Searle, Apel, Greimas and Landowski, and is followed then by the main section which is subdivided by a historical,... more...
Signs, Dialogue and Ideology
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1993; US$ 135.00Signs, Dialogue and Ideology illustrates and critically examines — both historically and theoretically — the current state of semiotic discourse from Peirce to Bakhtin, through Saussure, Levinas, Schaff and Rossi-Landi to modern semioticians such as Umberto Eco. Ponzio is in search of a method to construct an appropriate language to talk... more...
Whose Language?
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1985; US$ 188.00"For the colonized person, objectivity is always directed against him" (Frantz Fanon). Colonized persons do not live on what we call (or used to call) the "colonies" alone. In general, objective reality, or the "facts of life", are very different depending on the kind of life you can afford. This goes for language as well; and it explains both the... more...









