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VIC 223 Signs, Meanings, and Culture

This guide is intended to support VIC 223.

Library Catalogue and Books

You can start with a book you know or are given in your syllabus or reading list:

The Quest for Meaning : a guide to semiotic theory and practice by Marcel Danesi: Print copy or E-book

Look at the TOC for issues and types of semiotics that you can apply to your topic

Sample Searches and Books Found

Search the UTL Library Catalogue for book titles and book chapters:

Sample Search Strategies and a relevant result:

  • semiotics and umbrella = no relevant results in a Library Catalogue Search for Books
  • symbol and umbrella = "The Free Zone: Artistic Protest in the Umbrella Movement," a book chapter in Protest : the aesthetics of resistance by Marleen Fitterer 
  • history and umbrella = A History of the Umbrella by T.S. Crawford
  • meaning and umbrella = no relevant results in a Library Catalogue Search for Books
  • culture and umbrella = Zen in Japanese culture by Gavin Blair ; translator, Marie Kastner