Algirdas Julien Greimas is a contemporary semiotician and narratologist. Among his works are: Structural Semantics (1966) Du Sens (1970) Pour une theorie du discours poetique (1972) On Meaning (1987)
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Luce Irigaray
Luce Irigaray (born 1993) is a contemporary French feminist, critic, and theorist whose deconstructivist readings of Western philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have had a profound influence in the United States and Europe.
Roman Jakobson
Roman Jakobson (1896 -1982) is a contemporary linguist that makes an important contribution by synthesizing the Saussurean and Peircean semiological traditions. According to Jakobson the subject of semiological research is the communication of each message, while the...
Julia Kristeva
Julia Kristeva (1941) is a contemporary semiologist the works of whom are very influenced by her psychoanalytical background. According to Kristeva, the study of signs should strive to become more than "an empirical science dealing with the modeling of signifying...
Susanne Langer
Susanne Langer (1895 - 1985) was an American teacher and philosopher whose contributions to US semiotics included: Philosophy in a New Key: A study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art (1942) Feeling and Form (1953) Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling Volume I...
John Locke
John Locke (1632 – 1704) was the most influential philosopher in Europe in the late seventeenth century. He is best known for his work on human rights and free speech. He was a thinker and writer who helped to create the European Enlightenment and the U.S....
Charles Morris
Charles Morris (1901-1979) was a contemporary American semiotician of paramount importance. According to Morris, "Semiotics aims at a general theory of signs in all their forms and manifestations, whether they belong to animals or humans, whether they are normal or...
John Poinsot
John Poinsot (1589-1644) was a very early modern author who seemed to be the first to undertake a thorough and systematic study of signs. John Deeley's work (including his translations) on Poinsot's writings is extremely valuable for understanding and endorsing the...
Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) was an American philosopher who (along with Ferdinand de Saussure) founded modern semiotics. "As far as I know, I am a pioneer or hermit in the work of clarifying and discovering what I call semiotics, ie the doctrine of the...
Ferdinand de Saussure
Ferdinand de Saussure was born in 1857 and died in 1913. He was the founder of modern linguistics and (along with Charles S. Peirce) the co-founder of modern semiotics, a field of study he named semiology. In his "Course in General Linguistics" Saussure states: "A...
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Walker Percy
Walker Percy (1916 – 1990) was a prolific American author whose work focused on philosophy and semiotics. Percy is noted for his philosophical novels set in and around New Orleans; his first, “The Moviegoer”, won the National Book Award for Fiction. Percy, an orphaned...
Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomsky, born 1928, is a renowned linguist who has made important contributions to the field over the course of his career. He is known for his work on the cognitive abilities of language, and his work has had a significant impact on the field of...
B.F. Skinner
Burrhus Frederic Skinner (1904 – 1990) was a celebrated American psychologist who heavily influenced the field of behaviorism. His work focused on the study of human behavior and how it is influenced by environmental stimuli. This approach has proven to be a powerful...
Gottlob Frege
German mathematician Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (1848 – 1925) was a prominent figure in the field of logic and philosophy, who worked at the University of Jena. Frege significantly reconceived the discipline of logic by constructing a formal system that, in...
Paul Ricœur
Paul Ricoeur (1913 – 2005) is a renowned French philosopher of the 20th century whose work has been widely studied and commented on around the world. He was an accomplished academic and public speaker, and his prominence as a social and political commentator led to a...
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A completely and truly free course on Semiology (Semiotics). Learn about the meaning of signs, how and why did the field emerged. What is the relationship between the street signs and the signs that we use every day - words.
