Linguistic and cultural essays on transmediality
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Guiraud defines semiology as the science of signs and sign systems. He starts from Saussure's idea that language is the model for the study of all other signs.
The author bases his research on the insight that - if nothing changes - in about a hundred years, out of today's approximately 5,000 living languages, half of them will die out. He is particularly worried about the fact that this cataclysm is taking plac
Words are like people: they are born, grow, travel, cross the borders of municipalities, provinces and states, adapt, change nationality and citizenship, reproduce, age and die, and – unlike people, similar to gods – they can also be resurrected.