Edited by language and communications expert Paul Cobley, this new reference work is an accessible and invaluable key to the complex field of liguistics and semiotics. The ten introductory essays are written by pace-setting figures in the field, and provide unique background to the 200+ A-Z entries that follow.
Among the latter are entries on key individuals such as Bakhtin, Chomsky, Lacan, Saussure, William of Ockham and many others; concepts like abduction, chain of discourse, grapheme, metalanguage, philology and syntax; theories and schools including American structuralism, pragmaticism and Russian formalism; and much, much more.