Semiotik., Bd. 1 / Semiotics, Vol. 1

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"Es ist an der Zeit, insbesondere Roland Posner, der, wie Insider wissen, den Löwenanteil der editorischen Arbeit trug, den Dank der semiotic community und aller darüber hinaus an der Materie Interessierten auszusprechen - für eine Leistung, die wohl den Ausdruck 'Jahrhundertwerk' verdient."Erhard Albrecht in: European Journal for Semiotic Studies 1/2004 "Der Bd. bietet einen vorzüglichen, geradezu enzyklopädischen Überblick über die einzelwissenschaftlichen Ausprägungen der Semiotik."Christian Begemannin: Germanistik 3-4/2005

The handbook Semiotics presents in four volumes containing 178 articles written by 175 authors from 25 countries the current state of research in general, descriptive, and applied semiotics and gives a comprehensive overview of sign conceptions in philosophy, aesthetics, logic, mathematics, grammar, stylistics, poetics, music, architecture, the fine arts, medicine, physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, sociology, economics, religion, and everyday life.

Part A (Chapter I-IV) provides a theory-based outline of the entire field of semiotics in 31 articles.
Part B (Chapter V-XI) complements this systematic account of semiotics by offering, in 68 articles, a unique survey of implicit semiotic thought in the most important cultures of the world and through the successive epochs of Western history.
Part C (Chapter XII) describes, in 23 articles, the various trends currently operative within semiotics.
Part D (Chapters XIII and XIV) comprises 36 articles that analyze the possibilities of a systematic reconstruction of the sign-related university disciplines and interdisciplinary approaches on a semiotic basis.
Part E (Chapter XV) contains 18 articles on selected sign problems in contemporary industrial and post-industrial societies. All of them are treated only marginally or not at all in the context of current university disciplines.
Part F (Chapter XVI) supplies semiotic practitioners with a series of concrete professional tools. It surveys semiotic institutions and organizations and provides semiotic reference sources and periodicals for the reader's convenience. The person and subject index allow the use of the book both as encyclopedia and dictionary.