Reading the Landscape: semitotics and landscape assessment

The metaphor of the landscape as a text provides fertile ground for considering theories of linguistics as conceptual frameworks for interpreting and assessing landscapes. In this essay, some key propositions of semiotic theory, a branch of linguistics, are reviewed. Furthermore, the development fro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: William Field
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Lincoln University 1997-03-01
Series:Landscape Review
Online Access:https://journals.lincoln.ac.nz/index.php/lr/article/view/40