Archaeological semiotics.9781557866578 Archaeological semiotics semiotics or semiology, discipline deriving from the American logician C. S. Peirce and the French linguist Ferdinand de Saussure. It has come to mean generally the study of any cultural product (e.g., a text) as a formal system of signs. . Preucel, Robert W. Blackwell Publishing 2006 332 pages $74.95 Hardcover Social archaeology CC72 Anthropology is a semiotic semiotic /se·mi·ot·ic/ (se?me-ot´ik) 1. pertaining to signs or symptoms. 2. pathognomonic. enterprise, declares Preucel (anthropology, U. of Pennsylvania), but then so is every other academic discipline that must attend to the linkages between theories, data, and social practices in the pursuit of meaning. Exploring the interpretive aspects of the profession, he looks at contributions by Ferdinand de Saussure Noun 1. Ferdinand de Saussure - Swiss linguist and expert in historical linguistics whose lectures laid the foundations for synchronic linguistics (1857-1913) de Saussure, Saussure and Charles Sanders Peirce Noun 1. Charles Sanders Peirce - United States philosopher and logician; pioneer of pragmatism (1839-1914) Charles Peirce, Peirce , post-structuralism and post-processual archaeology, Brook Farm and the architecture of Utopia, and other topics. ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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