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semiotics

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Word definitions for semiotics in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
study of signs and symbols with special regard to function and origin, 1880, from semiotic ; also see -ics . Medical sense is from 1660s.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Cohen was an artist who studies semiotics , or the cultural meaning of signs and symbols. ▪ Here the influence of psychoanalysis has to he taken into account alongside semiotics , together with the concerns of social history. ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Semiotics (also called semiotic studies ; not to be confused with the Saussurean tradition called semiology which is a part of semiotics) is the study of meaning-making , the study of sign processes and meaningful communication. This includes the study ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. (philosophy) a philosophical theory of the functions of signs and symbols

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Semeiology \Se`mei*ol"o*gy\ (s[=e]`m[-e]*[o^]l"[-o]*j[y^] or s[=e]`m[-i]*[o^]l"[-o]*j[y^]), or Semiology \Se`mi*ol"o*gy\ (s[e^]m`[-e]*[o^]l"[-o]*j[y^]), n. [Gr. shmei^on a mark, a sign + -logy.] The study of signs as an element of communication; the analysis ...

Usage examples of semiotics.

Damien would say, is closer to allergy, a morbid and sometimes violent reactivity to the semiotics of the marketplace.

Dal ton in search of something definitive on deconstructionism or semiotics.

Is hard to get handle on their semiotics while they hide behind the lobster model we uploaded in their direction twenty years ago, but are certainly not crusties, and are definite not human either.

Let me get this straight, you claim to be some kind of AI, working for KGB dot RU, and you're afraid of a copyright infringement lawsuit over your translator semiotics?

You're the KGB's core AI, but you're afraid of a copyright infringement lawsuit over your translator semiotics?

Now that Arno had cleared the way for her, she could do anything she wanted with the Semiotics Group data flow.

The ultrafemme gowns and dresses had icky semiotics, the shops for people from cultures with sumptuary laws and dress codes were too weird, the everyday stuff was too formal—.

These are questions, not for hermeneutics or semiotics, but rather for population genetics.