I met Deeley at one of the annual meetings of the American Maritain Association. I bought his seminal book on semiotics.
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semiotics
Theory of signs, comprising both semantics and syntactics, especially in the philosophy of language of Peirce and Saussure.
Recommended Reading: Charles Morris, Signs, Language, and Behavior (Braziller, 1955); Umberto Eco, Theory of Semiotics (Indiana, 1979); Thomas A. Sebeok, Signs: An Introduction to Semiotics (Toronto, 1995); Winfried Noth, Handbook of Semiotics (Indiana, 1995); and Umberto Eco, Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language (Indiana, 1986).