Published in French as Sémiologie du Langage Visuel

© 1987 by Presses de l’Université du Québec

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Saint-Martin, Fernande

[Sémiologie du langage visuel. English]

Semiotics of visual language / Fernande Saint-Martin.

p. cm. — (Advances in semiotics)

Translation of: Sémiologie du langage visuel.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 13: 978-0-253-35057-2

1. Visual communication. 2 Semiotics. I. Title. II. Series.

P93.5.S2613 1990

302.2—dc20

89-45920
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