A Theory of Semiotics

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A Theory of Semiotics is Umberto Eco’s influential scholarly work that systematically explores the theory of signs, symbols, and meaning in communication and culture.

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instanceOf academic monograph
book
non-fiction book
author Umberto Eco
contributedTo institutionalization of semiotics as a discipline
countryOfPublication United States of America
surface form: United States
fieldOfStudy communication studies
linguistics
philosophy
focusesOn codes and conventions
communication in culture
meaning production
sign processes
genre scholarly work
hasImpactOn communication studies
cultural studies
literary theory
media studies
philosophy of signs
hasPart applied semiotics section
theoretical semiotics section
hasTheoreticalFramework general semiotic theory
structuralist semiotics
influencedBy Charles Sanders Peirce
Ferdinand de Saussure
pragmatics
structuralism
language English
mainSubject communication theory
cultural theory
philosophy of language
semiotics
theory of signs
notableFor influence on semiotic studies
systematic exposition of semiotic theory
originalLanguage Italian
partOf Umberto Eco bibliography
publicationYear 1976
publisher Indiana University Press
targetAudience graduate students
researchers in humanities
scholars

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