Semiotics. Sost. It will be .. article and general. Red. Yu. C. Stepanova . M. "Rainbow", 1983. 638 s. -Instead of annotation (fragments of the introductory article): Semiotics finds its objects everywhere - in language, mathematics, fiction, in a separate work of literature, in architecture, apartment planning, in family organization, in the processes of the subconscious, in the communication of animals, in the life of plants. But everywhere its immediate subject is the sign system. Whatever the sign systems whether they operate in society, in nature, or in man (his organism, thought, and psyche) they are the subject of semiotics. Naturally, due to this feature, scientists of different specialties cooperate and cooperate in semiotics - linguists, historians of literature and art, culturologists, sociologists, psychiatrists, mathematicians .. (...) the number of specialized publications and journals on semiotics worldwide is steadily growing, and semiotics is issued. (...), According to many modern semiotics (...) semiotics is divided by object of study into three large compact nodes: On the one hand, the semiotics of language and literature, most closely related to its object, which acts as a direct given primarily in the form of manifestations of language - speech or text. On the other hand, a less tight knot is a sign phenomenon of other genera, such as painting, music, architecture, cinema, rites, rituals (to the extent that they are sign systems); Separately, but quite within the framework of semiotics, there is a third node - the animal communication system and the biological communication system in the human body. The works offered to the reader are currently (sometimes in addition to their own opinion of their authors) related to the semiotics of language and literature. Their essence is in the successive convergence and finally in the merger of studies of language and literature from a certain angle - semiotic. Therefore, it must be borne in mind from the very beginning that what is stated in this book is not a theory of language and is not a theory of literature. It is not a theory of art.... Sample pages: