📚 Semiotics

Books with semiotics on their catalogue record, first published between 1953 and 2020, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject semiotics in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 7,970 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Textual Practice	Terence Hawkes	1987	57
	Mythologies	Roland Barthes	1953	26
	Semiotics	Daniel Chandler	2001	20
	S/Z	Roland Barthes	1970	14
	Fatal strategies	Jean Baudrillard	1983	13
	Semiotica y Filosofia del Lenguaje	Umberto Eco	1983	13
	Interprétation et surinterpretation	Umberto Eco	1992	13
	Le systeme des objects	Jean Baudrillard	1968	9
	McLuhan, hot & cool	Gerald Emanuel Stearn	1967	8
	Structuralism & semiotics	Terence Hawkes	1977	8
	Semiotics of Theatre and Drama	Keir Elam	1980	8
	Theories of literature in the twentieth century	Fokkema, Douwe Wessel	1977	7
	Multimodal Studies	Kay O'Halloran	2012	7
	Social Semiotics	Thomas Hestbaek Andersen	2015	7
	The secret language of symbols	David Fontana	1993	6
	Signs in Use	Jørgen Dines Johansen	2005	6
	Principles of Semiotic	David S. Clarke	2016	6
	Using Semiotics in Marketing	Rachel Lawes	2020	6
	La révolution du langage poétique	Julia Kristeva em português	1974	5
	Sémiotique du récit	Nicole Everaert-Desmedt	1981	5
	Introduction to Communication Studies	John Fiske	1988	5
	Semiotics of poetry	Michael Riffaterre	1978	4
	Languages of the stage	Patrice Pavis	1982	4
	Signs in Contemporary Culture	Arthur Asa Berger	1984	4
	Signs	Thomas A. Sebeok	1994	4
	Language in Culture	Michael Silverstein	2016	4
	Semiology	Guiraud, Pierre	1975	3
	Semiotic and significs	Charles Sanders Peirce	1977	3
	Sign in Music and Literature	Wendy Steiner	1981	3
	Introduction to communication studies	John Fiske	1982	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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