Semiotic Insights: The Data Do the Talking

This collection of papers comes to us from a widely known and highly respected scholar of both semiotics and linguistics.

The volume provides a lucid narrative on the nature of both subjects, revealing their symbiotic relationship through concrete, data-based application.;Irmengard Rauch shows, with many practical examples, how to conduct semiotic analyses of language, narrative, texts and discourse.

In part 1, "Semiotic Insights", she introduces the reader to the fundamental tenets and metatheory of the fields of linguistics and semiotics, the multifaceted cooperation and tension between them, their shared threads and subthemes, the role of language in both, the tools of each discipline, and their relationship to other disciplines, especially biology and medicine.

In part 2, "The Data Do the Talking", hard linguistic data are exposed to treatment within the semiotic paradigm.

The nexus of linguistics and semiotics is shown, and Rauch's semiotic method lends insight into the dynamics of linguistic change.