Semiotics. Language, culture, law. Textbook for universities.

This textbook provides an overview of the main topics of general semiotics, as well as specific semiotics such as linguosemiotics, cultural semiotics, legal semiotics, and semiotics of Indo-European languages and cultures. It discusses the principles of preservation and transmission of non-genetic information, offers descriptions and analysis of basic semiotic laws, and analyzes the network principle of language and culture organization. The approach to presenting the material is based on the historical-genetic method of analyzing semiotic processes. The textbook is recommended for philology students, cultural studies students, law students, as well as graduate students, teachers, and researchers in the humanities.