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Analyzing Cultures: Analyzing Cultures

Analyzing Cultures

Analyzing Cultures

Part III

A Practical Synthesis

A general semiotics studies the whole of the human signifying activity—languages—and languages are what constitutes human beings as such, that is, as semiotic animals. It studies and describes languages through languages. By studying the human signifying activity it influences its course.

Umberto Eco (1932-)

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