The Routledge Companion to Semiotics

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 and Sebeok

crucial and contemporary topics such as biosemiotics, sociosemiotics and semioethics

the semiotics of media and culture, nature and cognition.

Featuring an extended glossary of key terms and thinkers as well as suggestions for further reading, this is an invaluable reference guide for students of semiotics at all levels.