Language in Its Cultural Embedding
Subtitle: Explorations in the Relativity of Signs and Sign Systems (Studies in Anthropological Linguistics)
Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter
Published: March 1991
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780899255835
Subjects: Culture; Signs and symbols; Language; Linguistic Anthropology; Anthropological linguistics; Language and culture; Semiotic models
First sentence: Nowadays, everybody seems to be aware of the impact of signs, symbols and of their processing on the functioning of human relations, and semiotics has long been explored as a field of studies within both the humanities and the natural sciences (e.g. in biology).