Semiotics and translation

Ubaldo Stecconi
European Commission
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The term ‘semiotics’ denotes an array of intellectual investigations that take signs and sign systems as their main object of study. At present, there is no unifying theory of semiotics and the investigations are carried out in a variety of disciplines. Petrilli and Ponzio offer the following, partial list of approaches:

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