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Semiotics Institute Online. Guerrilla semiotics. Signo. Sign Systems Studies. Applied Semiotics / Sémiotique appliquée. CRITICAL NOISE. Semionaut Signifying Everything. Semiotic Society of America News. Elements of Semiology by Roland Barthes. Roland Barthes (1964) Source: Elements of Semiology, 1964, publ. Hill and Wang, 1968. The first half of the book is reproduced here. In his Course in General Linguistics, first published in 1916, Saussure postulated the existence of a general science of signs, or Semiology, of which linguistics would form only one part. Semiology therefore aims to take in any system of signs, whatever their substance and limits; images, gestures, musical sounds, objects, and the complex associations of all these, which form the content of ritual, convention or public entertainment: these constitute, if not languages, at least systems of signification.

There is no doubt that the development of mass communications confers particular relevance today upon the vast field of signifying media, just when the success of disciplines such as linguistics, information theory, formal logic and structural anthropology provide semantic analysis with new instruments. I. I.1.2. I.1.3. I.1.4. I.1.5. I.1.6. I.1.7.