Semiotics Books

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1. The Language of Colour: An introduction

   By Theo Van Leeuwen

   The Language of Colour provides a fresh approach to the study of colour. Moving on from the meanings of single colours, Theo van Leeuwen develops the theory that many different features shape the way we attach meaning to the colours we see in front of us, and the idea that colour schemes are more...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-49538-7 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. Semiotics

   Edited by Peer F. Bundgaard, Frederik Stjernfelt

   Semiotics (the study of sign processes—‘semiosis’—and sign systems) embraces linguistics, philosophy, and literary studies, as well as linking to anthropology, art, psychology, and biology. This new Routledge collection helps to make sense of the subject’s huge interdisciplinary corpus of...

   October 2010 | 978-0-415-47681-2 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Lesbian Discourses: Images of a Community

   By Veronika Koller

   Lesbian Discourses is the first book-length treatment of lesbian text and discourse. It looks at what changing images of community American and British lesbian authors have communicated since 1970, how this change can be traced in texts such as pamphlets, magazines and blogs, and why this...

   June 2010 | 978-0-415-88389-4 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Language (Routledge Revivals)

   By Leonard Bloomfield

   First published in Great Britain in 1935, this Routledge Revival reissues one of the most influential works ever published in the field of linguistics. Leonard Bloomfield's Language is both a masterpiece of textbook writing and a classic of academic scholarship, which ...

   February 2010 | 978-0-415-57682-6 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Multimodality: A Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication

   By Gunther Kress

   The 21st century is awash with ever more mixed and remixed images, writing, layout, sound, gesture, speech, and 3D objects. Multimodality looks beyond language and examines these multiple modes of communication and meaning making. Multimodality: A Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary...

   November 2009 | 978-0-415-32061-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   The Routledge Companion to Semiotics

   Edited by Paul Cobley

   The Routledge Companion to Semiotics provides the ideal introduction to semiotics, containing engaging essays from an impressive range of international leaders in the field. Topics covered include: the history, development, and uses of semiotics key theorists, including Saussure, Peirce...

   July 2009 | 978-0-415-44073-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

7. D. Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, Deconstruction

   Edited by Terrence Hawkes

   These three volumes are part of the forty-one volume set New Accents. First launched in 1977, the New Accents series rapidly changed the face of literary studies. Its clear and concise volumes brought the latest in literary theory to students and academics and paved the way for undergraduate...

   2007 | 978-0-415-43695-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. C. Language, Signs, Literature

   Edited by Terrence Hawkes

   These three volumes are part of the forty-one volume set New Accents. First launched in 1977, the New Accents series rapidly changed the face of literary studies. Its clear and concise volumes brought the latest in literary theory to students and academics and paved the way for undergraduate...

   2007 | 978-0-415-43694-6 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Semiotics: The Basics, 2nd Edition

   By Daniel Chandler

   This updated second edition provides a clear and concise introduction to the key concepts of semiotics in accessible and jargon-free language. With a revised introduction and glossary, extended index and suggestions for further reading, this new edition provides an increased number of examples...

   2007 | 978-0-415-36375-4 | Paperback (Routledge)
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    Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design, 2nd Edition

    By Gunther Kress, Theo van Leeuwen

    This second edition of the landmark textbook Reading Images builds on its reputation as the first systematic and comprehensive account of the grammar of visual design. Drawing on an enormous range of examples from children's drawings to textbook illustrations, photo-journalism to fine art, as well...

    2006 | 978-0-415-31915-7 | Paperback (Routledge)