Marcel Danesi
Foreword: The Sieve of Contemporary Semiotics ................ 9
Preface ........................................................ 13
I. The Basis of Semiotic Knowledge.
The Sign: Concepts of Ch. S. Peirce and R. De Saussure .... 15
II. Varieties of Semiosis and Types of Signs (icons,
indices, symbols).
From types of signs to branches of semiotics-types of
signs as embryos of complete semiotic systems ............. 37
III. Semiotics of matrices, which preserve non genetic data .... 53
IV. Semiotic law .............................................. 65
V. Social features of a sign: ethnosemiotics.
Methods related to Indo-European semiotics.
The Indo-European model of the world ...................... 77
References ..................................................... 97
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