Applying Sebeok’s Typology of Signs to the Study of Flags

Raven: A Journal of Vexillology 19:57-97 (2012)
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Thomas A. Sebeok, a leading semiotician, developed a useful typology which the author uses to analyze national and subnational flags, exploring them as signals, icons, indexes, and symbols and using extensively illustrations.

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10710043

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10.5840/raven2012196

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