Readings

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Ling 447a – 2011W, Term 1

Semiotics

Primary Semiotics textbooks by

Daniel Chandler:

Semiotics for Beginners – Online: http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/semiotic.html

Semiotics: The basics, 2^nd Ed. Routledge: Abingdon, (2007).

Various writings of Charles Sanders Peirce (Have a look for yourself first)

The Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce. Online edition. Volume 2: Elements of Logic.

Book 2: Speculative Grammar, Chapter 1-2(paras 219-249), 3(browse from para 274 sections on Icon, Index, and Symbol)

Essay: On the nature of signs (1873), pp 141-143.

Language

Dwight L. Bolinger

Aspects of language (2^nd Edition). Ch. 2 (pp 13-33).New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975.

PDF excerpt: Chapter 2

Charles Hockett

13 Design Features of Language => GO FIND THEM!

Ferdinand de Saussure

PDF excerpts: Introduction Chapter 1

Benjamin Lee Whorf

Language, thought, and reality: Selected writings of B.L. Whorf. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1962.

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Ecological Perception

James J. Gibson

The senses considered as perceptual systems. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966.

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The ecological approach to visual perception (Ch 1-8). Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979.

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Eleanor J. Gibson

Semiotic Perception

Abel, J., Barbosa, A. V., Black, A., Mayer, C., & Vatikiotis-Bateson, E.

The labial viseme reconsidered: Evidence from production and perception. In Y. Laprie & I. Steiner (Eds.), 9th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP) (pp. 337-344). Montreal, PQ., 2011.

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