Edited by communications specialist Paul Cobley, this Routledge Companion it has ten introductory essays written by pace-setting figures in the field. These are followed by over 200 A-Z entries which cover:
*key concepts such as abduction, code, modelling, philology and syntax
*key individuals: Bakhtin, Chomsky, Peirce, Saussure, Sebeok and others
*key theories and schools, including American structuralism, pragmatism and the Prague School.
Using this book. Part I Semiosis, communication and language:
introduction, Paul Cobley; nonverbal communication, Thomas A. Sebeok; Charles
Sanders Peirce's concept of the sign, Floyd Merrell; the origins of language,
William C. Stokoe; language and the ecology of the mind, Ray Jackendoff;
sociolinguistics and social semiotics; pragmatics, Jef Verschueren; language
change, Jean Aitchison; the Chomskyan revolutions, Raphael Salkie;
linguistics after Saussure, Roy Harris; discourse, Nikolas Coupland and Adam
Jaworski. Part II Key themes and major figures in semiotics and linguistics.
Paul Cobley is the author of Introducing Semiotics (with Litza Jansz), The American Thriller and the forthcoming New Critical Idiom title, Narrative. He is the editor of Routledge's Communication Theory Reader. Paul Cobley is Reader in Communications at London Guildhall University.
