Signs, Symbols and Ciphers: Decoding the Message
Author:   Georges Jean ,  Sophie Hawkes
Publisher:   Thames & Hudson Ltd
ISBN:  

9780500300879


Pages:   208
Publication Date:   18 January 1999
Format:   Paperback
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Signs, Symbols and Ciphers: Decoding the Message


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How does a sign represent something other than itself? How do we understand the meaning of a written symbol? Can clothes be a sign? Can sounds? Signs and symbols represent ideas and objects and, over time, these marks and gestures have multiplied into a complex network of images. This handy pocket-book combines scholarship, documentary evidence and fantastic illustrations to provide the story of how we have interacted with signs and symbols across the ages.

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Author:   Georges Jean ,  Sophie Hawkes
Publisher:   Thames & Hudson Ltd
Imprint:   Thames & Hudson Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 12.50cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 17.60cm
Weight:   0.320kg
ISBN:  

9780500300879


ISBN 10:   0500300879
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   18 January 1999
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Signs as precursors of writing; signs of the body; the magic of long-distance signs; maps - hotbeds of signs; roadsigns; from sign to symbol.

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Georges Jean (1920 - 2011) was a French poet and essayist specializing in the field of linguistics, poetry and the philosophy of semiology.

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