Lecture-based Reading: What is a Sign?

• Chandler, Daniel (1994) 'Signs', in Semiotics for Beginners. [WWW document] URL http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Documents/S4B/sem02.html
• Chandler, Daniel (2001) Semiotics: The Basics (1st Edition). London: Routledge, Chapter One: 'Models of the Sign'
• Chandler, Daniel (2007) Semiotics: The Basics (2nd Edition). London: Routledge, Chapter One: 'Models of the Sign'
• Fiske, John & John Hartley (1978) Reading Television. London: Methuen
• Saussure, Ferdinand de (1916/1974) Course in General Linguistics. (trans. Wade Baskin). London: Fontana/Collins.
• Saussure, Ferdinand de(1916/1983) Course in General Linguistics (trans. Roy Harris). London: Duckworth (beware of Harris's translation of signifiant as 'signal' rather than 'signifier' and signifié as 'signification' rather than 'signified').

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