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Article: Paul Cobley, editor: The Routledge Companion to Semiotics and Linguistics.(Book Review)
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- Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences
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- November 1, 2003
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New York and London: Routledge, 2001. ISBN paperback 0-415-24314-9
This, number 5 in a series of scientific companions, is a work of ambivalent character in that it combines a dictionary of key notions and key figures in semiotics and/or linguistics (Part II, pp. 149-326) with a number of short introductory chapters, ten in total, on several themes in the field (Part I, pp. 1-148). Most central and also most important, is Part II, the semiotic and linguistic dictionary--the ten introductory chapters being no more than a rather disperse and none too coherent, be it sometimes interesting, collection of short overviews.
Part II opens with a definition of ...