Chapter 1: Literary Semiotics and the Doctrine of Signs
Chapter 1: Literary Semiotics and the Doctrine of Signs

Summary/Abstract: In the United States, in contrast with the predominantly literary and linguistic development semiotics has undergone in the more typically European contexts, the development of semiotics has taken a rather different turn, influenced especially perhaps by Thomas A. Sebeok and the many projects associated with the Research Center for Language and Semiotic Studies which he chaired at the Bloomington campus of Indiana University. This development shows promise of providing for the semiotics movement as a whole a new and larger framework for the conduct of research, one that is, to tell the truth, more in keeping with the possibilities contained in Locke’s original adumbration of the place of semiotics among the sciences, natural and human alike.

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