1. "Semiotics is not only the key tool in understanding perform
... certain aspects of the "sign". By drawing from specific areas of these approaches, it becomes obvious, however, that semiotics is an inseparable and integral part of performance. Ferdinand de Saussure, a Swiss linguist who has been hailed the "founder not only of linguistics but also...semiotics"#, based his theory on a linguistic model that has been employed by most structuralists. The basic linguistic ... ...
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