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Signs, Symbols and Ciphers: Decoding The Message (New Horizons)

Signs and symbols represent abstract ideas and concrete objects, providing a sense of number, danger, value, distances in time and space, and even love. Over time, these marks and gestures have multiplies into an immense and complex network of images, figures and emblems — pictographs and logographs, maps and charts, letterforms, colours and patterns. How does a sign represent something other than itself? How do we come to understand the meaning of a written symbol? What happens when a sign crosses international borders of language and culture? Can clothes constitute a sign? Can colours? Can sounds? Signs, Symbols and Ciphers takes the reader on a journey of discovery through the intriguing universe of symbols.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 207
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780500300879
  • Genres
  • language, anthropology
  • Release date
  • 1998