Deely John. Basics of Semiotics

Indiana University Press, 1990. — xvii, 149 pages. — (Advances in Semiotic). — ISBN13: 9780585099743.The last half century has produced an increasing interest in semiotics, the study of signs. As an interdisciplinary field, moreover, semiotics has produced a vast literature from many different points of view. As the discourse has expanded, clear definitions and goals become more elusive. Semioticians still lack a unified theory of the purposes of semiotics as a discipline as well as a comprehensive rationale for the4 linking of semiosis at the levels of culture, society, and nature. As Deely suggests in his preface, the image of the modern semiotic universe is the same as that of astronomy in 1611 as suggested by John Donne: "Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone; / All just supply, and all Relation."
This short, cogent, philosophically oriented book outlines and analyzes the basic concepts of semiotics in a coherent, overall framework.Literary Semiotics and the Doctrine of Signs
Semiotics: Method or Point of View?
Semiosis: The Subject Matter of Semiotic Inquiry
Signs: The Medium of Semiosis
Zoosemiotics and Anthroposemiotics
The Content of Experience
Species-Specific Objective Worlds
Species-Specifically Human Semiosis
The "Conventionality" of Signs in Anthroposemiosis
Criticism as the Exploration of Textuality
A Matrix for All the Sciences
A Model for Discourse as Semiosis
Summation
Physiosemiosis and Phytosemiosis
Retrospect: History and Theory in Semiotics
Theory of Semiotics
History of Semiotics
The Ancient World and Augustine
The Latin World
The Iberian Connection
The Place of John Locke
Saussure, Peirce, and Poinsot
Jakob von Uexküll