CHAPTER 1: LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND SEMIOTICS FURTHER READING There are many other books to read to discover more detail about the topics covered in this chapter and you might like to choose from among the following, perhaps with guidance from your tutor. Semiotics:The Basics (Chandler 2007) and The Routledge Companion to Semiotics and Linguistics (Cobley 2001) both provide further detail on the relationships between language, linguistics and semiotics. Discourses in Place (Scollon and Scollon 2003) shows semiotic discourse in action and provides a wide range of data for further consideration. Communicating (Finnegan 2002 back cover) considers ‘the amazing array of sounds, sights, smells, gestures, looks, movements, touches and material objects’ of communication. Gestures: The Do’s and Taboos of Body Language Around the World (Axtell 1998) provides an entertaining guide to gestures around the world – similar material but updated from Manwatching: A Field Guide to Human Behaviour (Morris 1978), which despite its age is still well worth looking at. Yule (2010) has a chapter on animals and human language in The Study of Language as well as a chapter which summarizes in a very readable form the features of human language as originally suggested by Hockett (in the 1960s) but developed later by many others, not least Yule himself. Aitchison (2008: ch.2) provides information on animal communication in The Articulate Mammal. Pinker’s The Language Instinct (1994) touches on many of the issues addressed in this chapter. In The Unfolding of Language Deutscher (2006) considers ‘the evolution of mankind’s greatest invention’, exploring issues discussed in both this and later chapters. Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics (1916/1966) provides more detail on the notion of the linguistic sign.
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Chapter 1: Language, CommuniCation and SemiotiCS Further reading
There are many other books to read to discover more detail about the topics covered in this chapter and you might like to choose from among the following, perhaps with guidance from your tutor. Semiotics: The Basics (Chandler 2007) and The Routledge Companion to Semiotics and Linguistics (Cobley 2001) both provide further detail on the relationships between language, linguistics and semiotics. Discourses in Place (Scollon and Scollon 2003) shows semiotic discourse in action and provides a wide range of data for further consideration. Communicating (Finnegan 2002 back cover) considers ‘the amazing array of sounds, sights, smells, gestures, looks, movements, touches and material objects’ of communication. Gestures: The Do’s and Taboos of Body Language Around the World (Axtell 1998) provides an entertaining guide to gestures around the world – similar material but updated from Manwatching: A Field Guide to Human Behaviour (Morris 1978), which despite its age is still well worth looking at. Yule (2010) has a chapter on animals and human language in The Study of Language as well as a chapter which summarizes in a very readable form the features of human language as originally suggested by Hockett (in the 1960s) but developed later by many others, not least Yule himself. Aitchison (2008: ch.2) provides information on animal communication in The Articulate Mammal. Pinker’s The Language Instinct (1994) touches on many of the issues addressed in this chapter. In The Unfolding of Language Deutscher (2006) considers ‘the evolution of mankind’s greatest invention’, exploring issues discussed in both this and later chapters. Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics (1916/1966) provides more detail on the notion of the linguistic sign.
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