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I Think I Am a Verb

More Contributions to the Doctrine of Signs

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  • © 1986

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  1. Thomas A. Sebeok

    1. Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

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Part of the book series: Topics in Contemporary Semiotics (TICSE)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Introduction

    • Thomas A. Sebeok
    Pages 1-9

  3. Communication, Language, and Speech

    • Thomas A. Sebeok
    Pages 10-16

  4. A Semiotic Perspective on the Sciences

    • Thomas A. Sebeok
    Pages 17-44

  5. Symptom

    • Thomas A. Sebeok
    Pages 45-58

  6. Vital Signs

    • Thomas A. Sebeok
    Pages 59-79

  7. Signs of Life

    • Thomas A. Sebeok
    Pages 80-81

  8. Naming in Animals, with Reference to Playing

    • Thomas A. Sebeok
    Pages 82-96

  9. Dialogue about Signs with a Nobel Laureate

    • Thomas A. Sebeok
    Pages 97-116

  10. Japanese Monkey Performances

    • Thomas A. Sebeok
    Pages 117-125

  11. Can Animals Lie?

    • Thomas A. Sebeok
    Pages 126-130

  12. Fables of Fact

    • Thomas A. Sebeok
    Pages 131-144

  13. Averse Stance

    • Thomas A. Sebeok
    Pages 145-148

  14. Pandora’s Box in Aftertimes

    • Thomas A. Sebeok
    Pages 149-173

  15. One, Two, Three Spells U b e r t y

    • Thomas A. Sebeok
    Pages 174-182

  16. Enter Textuality

    • Thomas A. Sebeok
    Pages 183-188

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 189-245
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About this book

My writing career has been, at least in this one respect, idiosyncratic: it had to mark and chart, step by step, its own peculiar champaign. My earliest papers, beginning in 1942, were technical articles in this or that domain of Uralic linguistics, ethnography, and folklore, with a sprinkling of contributions to North and South American linguistics. In 1954, my name became fecklessly associated with psycholinguistics, then, successively, with explorations in my­ thology, religious studies, and stylistic problems. It now takes special effort for me to even revive the circumstances under which I came to publish, in 1955, a hefty tome on the supernatural, another, in 1958, on games, and yet another, in 1961, utilizing a computer for extensive sorting of literary information. By 1962, I had edged my way into animal communication studies. Two years after that, I first whiffled through what Gavin Ewart evocatively called "the tulgey wood of semiotics." In 1966, I published three books which tem­ porarily bluffed some of my friends into conjecturing that I was about to meta­ morphose into a historiographer of linguistics. The topmost layer in my scholarly stratification dates from 1976, when I started to compile what eventually became my "semiotic tetralogy," of which this volume may supposably be the last. In the language of "Jabberwocky," the word "tulgey" is said to connote variability and evasiveness. This notwithstanding, the allusion seems to me apt.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

    Thomas A. Sebeok

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: I Think I Am a Verb

  • Book Subtitle: More Contributions to the Doctrine of Signs

  • Authors: Thomas A. Sebeok

  • Series Title: Topics in Contemporary Semiotics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3490-1

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1986

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-42036-8Published: 31 August 1986

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-3492-5Published: 09 August 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-3490-1Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 246

  • Topics: Cognitive Psychology, Linguistics, general, Language and Literature

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