A specialist in the study of linguistic meaning

Usage examples of semiotician.

Murray has the quixotic ability to disregard the banal surface of television and, with all the innocence of a formalist semiotician, to discover a cornucopia of aesthetic information in its organization.

The semiotician in me takes a brief interest in this symbology, but I shut him up.

Even though I am likely to be dead in about ninety seconds, the semiotician in me is impressed.

Despite pain and muzziness, the semiotician awakened, wondering why officialdom would choose so impressive-sounding a term to describe a brutal criminal.

In our small ways each of us has to be a semiotician decoding the signs supplied to us by our fellow human beings and the environment.

Saussure did not quite win through to a totally holonic view, but it was a major step in the right direction, and had an enormous historical impact (virtually all structuralists, and therefore all poststructuralists, and many semioticians, trace their lineage to Saussure).

Or as what semioticians call the "subject of the enunciation" is to what they call the "subject of the statement.