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Special Topics in Media Informatics

Frieder Nake



A list of texts on semiotics
22 October 2012


No attempt has been made with this list to be particularly comprehensive or selective.


Andersen, Peter B!gh: A theory of computer semiotics. Semiotic approaches to construction and assessment of
computer systems. Cambridge: Cambrige University Press 1990 "also as paperback#
Andersen, Peter B!gh: Computer semiotics. Scand. J. Information Systems 3 "1991# 3$30
Andersen, Peter B!gh, Holmqvist, Berit, Jensen, Jens "eds.#: The computer as medium. Cambridge, New York:
Cambridge University Press 1993
Anderson, Douglas R.: Creativity and the philosphy of C.S. Peirce. Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff Publ. 1987
Austin, John L.: How to do things with words. Oxford University Press 1971
Bergman, Mats: Peirce%s philosophy of communication.The rhetorical underpinnings of the theory of signs. London:
Continuum International Publ. Group 2009
Bernstein, Richard J. "ed.#: Perspectives on Peirce. Critical essays on Charles Sanders Peirce. New Haven, London: Yale
University Press 1965
Bogarin, Jorge: Semiotik der Automaten, Algorithmen und Formalen Sprachen. Diss. Universit&t Stuttgart. Feb. 1989
Bolz, Norbert, Kittler, Friedrich A., Tholen, Christoph "Hrsg.#: Computer als Medium. M'nchen: Wilhelm Fink 1993
Brent, Joseph: Charles Sanders Peirce. Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1993
Brier, S!ren: Cynersemiotics. Why information is not enough! Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2008
Clarke, David S. Jr.: Sources of semiotic. Readings with commentary from antiquity to the present. Carbondale: Southern
Illinois University Press 1990
Deely, John: Basics of semiotics. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press 1990
Eco, Umberto: Einf'hrung in die Semiotik. M'nchen: Wilhelm Fink 1972 "must exist in English translation also#
Eco, Umberto: A theory of semiotics. Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1976
Eco, Umberto: Semiotics and the philosophy of language. London: Macmillan 1984
Figge, Udo L.: Computersemiotik. Z. f. Semiotik 13, 3/4 "1991# 321$330
Figge, Udo L.: Semiotic features of human$computer$interaction. In I. Rauch, G.F. Carr "eds.#: Semiotics around the
world. Proc. 5
th
Congress Int. Ass. Semiotic Studies. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter 1997. 761$764
Gorn, Saul: The identification of the computer and information sciences: their fundamental semiotic concepts and
relationships. Foundations of Language 4 "1968# 339$372
Hjelmlev, Louis: Prolegomena to a theory of language. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press 1963
Jorna, Ren( J.: Knowledge representation and symbols in the mind. T'bingen: Stauffenburg Verlag 1990
Jorna, Ren( J., van Heusden, Barend, Posner, Rolanbd "eds.#: Signs, search and communication. Semiotic aspects of
artificial intelligence. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter 1993
Jorna, Ren( J., van Heusden, Barend: Semiotics of the user interface. Semiotica 109, 3/4 "1996# 237$250
Ketner, Kenneth Laine "ed.#: Peirce and contemporary thought. Philosophical inquiries. New York: Fordham University

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Press 1995
Krampen, Martin, Klaus Oehler, Roland Posner, Thomas A. Sebeok, Thure von Uexk'll "eds.#: Classics of semiotics.
New York: Plenum Press 1987
Manovich, Lev: The language of new media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press 2001
Maranda, Pierre: Semiotics and computers: the advent of semiotronics? In t.A. Sebeok, J. Umiker$Sebeok "eds.#: The
semiotic web. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter 1988. 507$533
Merrell, Floyd: Semiosis in the postmodern age. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press 1995
Merrell, Floyd: Peirce, signs, and meaning. Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1997
Morris, Charles William: Grundlagen der Zeichentheorie. Frankfurt: Fischer Taschenbuch 1988 "of course, also in
English#
Nadin, Mihai: Interface design and evaluation ) semiotic implications. In H.R. Hartson, D. Hix "eds.#: Advances in
human$computer interaction. Vol. II. Norwood, NJ: Ablex 1988. 45$100
Nake, Frieder: Human$computer interaction. Signs and signals interfacing. Languages of design 2 "1994# 193$205
Nake, Frieder, Susanne Grabowski: Human$computer interaction viewed as pseudo$communication. Knowledge$Based
Systems 14 "2001# 441$447
N*th, Winfried: Handbook of semiotics. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press 1995
N*th, Winfried "ed.#: Semiotics of the media. State of the art, projects, and perspectives. Berlin, New York: Mouton de
Gruyter 1997
O%Neill, Shaleph: Interactive media: the semiotics of embedded interaction. London, Berlin: Springer 2008
Pape, Helmut: Erfahrung und Wirklichkeit als Zeichenproze+. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp 1989
Peirce, Charles Sanders: Peirce on signs. Writings on semiotic. Ed. by James Hoopes. Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press 1991
Peirce, Charles Sanders: The essential Peirce. Selected philosophical writings, 2 vols. Ed. by the Peirce Edition Project.
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press 1998
Posner, Roland, Klaus Robering, Thomas A. Sebeok "eds.#: Semiotics. A handbook on the sign$theoretic foundations of
nature and culture. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter 1997.
Saint$Martin, Fernande: Semiotics of visual language. Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1990
Sebeok, Thomas A., Umiker$Sebeok, J. "eds.#: The semiotic sphere. New York: Plenum Press 1986
Sebeok, Thomas A.: Signs. An introduction to semiotics. Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1994
Short, T.L.: Peirce%s theory of signs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2007
Souza, Clarisse Sieckenius de: The semiotic engineering of user interface languages. Int. J. Man$Machine Studies 39 "1993#
753$773
Souza, Clarisse Sieckenius de: The semiotic engineering of human$computer interaction. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
2005
Tanaka$Ishii, Kumiko: Semiotics of programming. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2010
Warner, Julian: Semiotics, information science, documents and computers. J. of Documentation 46 "1990# 16$32
Zemanek, Heinz: Semiotics and programming languages. Comm. ACM 9 "1966# 139$143