Universe of the Mind
Subtitle: A Semiotic Theory of Culture (Second World)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: November 1990
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780253336088
Subjects: Linguistic semiotics; Cultural And Social Anthropology; Semiotics; Literary Criticism; Archaeology / Anthropology; Philosophy; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Anthropology - Cultural; Semiotics & Theory; Russian & Former Soviet Union; Culture
First sentence: In the Saussurean system of thought, which has long determined the course of semiotic thinking, there is a clear preference for the study of language rather than speech, and of the code rather than the text.