Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The theory and study of signs and symbols, especially as elements of language or other systems of communication, and comprising semantics, syntactics, and pragmatics.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The doctrine or science of signs; the language of signs.
- noun 2. Specifically, that branch of pathology which is concerned with the significance of all symptoms in the human body, whether healthy or diseased; symptomatology; semiology.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
semeiotics .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The study of
signs andsymbols , especially as means oflanguage orcommunication .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (philosophy) a philosophical theory of the functions of signs and symbols
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Examples
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Clearly, naming things is one of the major themes of the book, and the nature of signs (as in semiotics as well as the paranoid mediaeval style), is what Eco is really interested in, hence the title and the latin riddle that finishes the novel: Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus.
I thought I was wrong once but I was mistaken « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2008
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Recommended if … you majored in semiotics at Brown or Finnegans Wake is your favorite book.
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Recommended if … you majored in semiotics at Brown or Finnegans Wake is your favorite book.
Canadian Novelist Gail Scott’s Paris « One-Minute Book Reviews 2006
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How to represent a concept like a Service with a symbol that provides meaning and is useful to its users falls under the topic of semiotics, which is the study of how symbols come to have meaning (semantics), how those symbols relate to one another (syntax), and how people do useful things with their symbols (pragmatics).
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Ecosemiotics can be defined as the semiotics of relationships between nature and culture.
Insurgent American 2009
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Good oration, but I really really hope you mean "semiotics" there at the end.
"These are not just regular costumes. These are the costumes that remind someone of the plantation in Gone with the Wind." Ann Althouse 2009
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The paper or presentation refers to "semiotics" at least three times.
Balkinization 2006
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Can anyone help me understand "semiotics", types of signs, I don't get it?
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The study discusses areas such as semiotics, emotional design, technology, 1 introduction consumer behavior and marketing.
Recently Uploaded Slideshows AnttiPitkanen 2009
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"semiotics": how we use symbols to communicate, how these symbols gain meaning, and how we use symbols differently than any other creature.
Planet Mozilla 2009
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Perhaps you've seen the long-term nuclear waste warnings, which researchers developed in the 1980s, creating the field of nuclear semiotics.
Stones, Clocks, and What We Should Actually Leave Behind Condé Nast 2020
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