Ideas, Words and Things

This anthology is a collection of the most representative writings that have marked the development of the study of semiology in France. The essays trace the continuous line of reflections on the nature of linguistic signs and signals, their integral relations to languages, and to the external word and mental processes. The essays reflect the ideological continuity from the dialectics of the ‘universals’ of the twelfth century to the semiological discourse of the modern era.