The semiotic sphere

Thomas Sebeok, Jean Umiker-Sebeok (eds)

Springer - Berlin

1986

Although semiotics has, in one guise or another, flourished uninterruptedly since pre­ Socratic times in the West, and important semiotic themes have emerged and devel­ oped independently in both the Brahmanie and Buddhistic traditions, semiotics as an organized undertaking began to 100m only in the 1960s. Workshops materialized, with a perhaps surprising spontaneity, over much ofEurope-Eastern and Western­ and in North America.