How I did it: The course addressed various definitions of sign and semiosis,
focusing on the following topics:

• patterns of communication;
• the sign
  as equivalence and the sign as inference;
• the sign in Saussure; what is
  structuralism;
• the function of the sign in Hjelmslev;
• semiosis
  according to Peirce;
• the theory of inference;
• he criteria for
  interpretation;
• what is pragmatism;
• the contractual nature of meaning;
  language, code and encyclopedia.

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