semioticians

"I'm finding it hard to introduce myself, actually, because the whole idea of social introductions is so problematized," says one of the hipster semioticians.

Sense & Semiotics Sam Sacks 2011

Because of course, while fake documentaries are largely scripted, staged, and performed, as is true for all of contemporary "reality" programming, there is also, always, a tiny bit or residue or trace of the actual person, place, or conversation what semioticians call the indexical also caught in every single faked frame.

Alexandra Juhasz: Casey Affleck's Biggest Reveal: Fake Doc, Joaquin's Tummy or Tranny Prostitutes? Alexandra Juhasz 2010

The subtext of bumper stickers is best left to social psychologists and cultural semioticians, but what is bracketed out of their meaning is frequently as important as what appears on them.

White House And Pentagon: Change, Continuity And Escalation 2009

If I ever write such a paper, it will use the masterly work of Owen Barfield (summarized for laymen in Poetic Diction) as a springboard, and some aspects of information theory as engines, and I have a shrewd idea that the particular subject I have in mind contains enough thermonuclear explosive to blow half the ideas of the semioticians to kingdom come.

To do superversive 2007

But I imagine semioticians would much rather not be associated with Robert Langdon.

Announcing the birth of a new feature and the death of Jenn's self respect. 2009

English majors and media semioticians must be cursing all the opportunities for expert witness consulting fees this decision has cost them.

Say the Right Things When Electioneering 2007

The subtext of bumper stickers is best left to social psychologists and cultural semioticians, but what is bracketed out of their meaning is frequently as important as what appears on them.

White House and Pentagon: Change, Continuity nd Escalation 2009

At first I thought semioticians might be angry that Brown apparently had never heard of their field, but maybe they're happy to not be associated with him.

Announcing the birth of a new feature and the death of Jenn's self respect. 2009

Sociologists, anthropologists and semioticians have absorbed more than the advisable limit of cathode rays trying to parse the lexicon of popular television in Brazil.

Scorching The Screen 2008

Whereas his fellow semioticians Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva and Jacques Lacan were wilfully elitist and obscure, Eco gave his field an approachable face with raffish newspaper think-pieces and jargon-free monographs on topics ranging from medieval aesthetics to the mass media.

Interview with Umberto Eco 2007