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Edited by communications specialist Paul Cobley, this Routledge Companion it has ten introductory essays written by pace-setting figures in the field. These are followed by over 200 A-Z entries which cover: *key concepts such as abduction, code, modelling, philology and syntax *key individuals: Bakhtin, Chomsky, Peirce, Saussure, Sebeok and others *key theories and schools, including American structuralism, pragmatism and the Prague School.

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Author:   Paul Cobley (London Metropolitan University, UK) ,  Paul Cobley
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9780415243131

ISBN 10:   0415243130
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   26 April 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Using this book. Part I Semiosis, communication and language: introduction, Paul Cobley; nonverbal communication, Thomas A. Sebeok; Charles Sanders Peirce's concept of the sign, Floyd Merrell; the origins of language, William C. Stokoe; language and the ecology of the mind, Ray Jackendoff; sociolinguistics and social semiotics; pragmatics, Jef Verschueren; language change, Jean Aitchison; the Chomskyan revolutions, Raphael Salkie; linguistics after Saussure, Roy Harris; discourse, Nikolas Coupland and Adam Jaworski. Part II Key themes and major figures in semiotics and linguistics.

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Paul Cobley is the author of Introducing Semiotics (with Litza Jansz), The American Thriller and the forthcoming New Critical Idiom title, Narrative. He is the editor of Routledge's Communication Theory Reader. Paul Cobley is Reader in Communications at London Guildhall University.

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