Drawing from many varied disciplinesscience, art, mass media, public institutions, and personal communication habitsthese collected studies of the nature and uses of signs provide a review of major contributions to the semiotic analysis of communication in its most varied forms. Chapters concentrate on the insights of Peirce, Charles Morris, de Saussure, Hjelmslev, Jakobson, Buhler, von Uexkull, and Sebeok. An English version of the German edition first published in 1981. Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews. com) | Classics of Semiotics by Martin Krampen, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters