Signs in Society

Richard Parmentier takes up Ferdinand de Saussure's challenge to study the life of signs in society by using semiotic tools proposed by Charles Sanders Peirce. He studies how semiotic theory can illuminate highly complex social and cultural practices.

Author: Richard J. Parmentier
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 06/22/1994
Pages: 319
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.49h x 6.41w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9780253327574

About the Author

RICHARD J. PARMENTIER, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University, is the author of The Sacred Remains: Myth, History, and Polity in Belau and articles on Pacific ethnography, anthropological linguistics, and semiotic theory.