semiological
- adjective
- /ˌsɛmɪəˈlɒdʒɪkəl/
- Specialized
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semiológico
- In her latest book, she examines how semiological theories can help decode the meanings of everyday signs.
Examples
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The research should focus on the different methods that historians of Western and non-Western art have used in the past and the present to formulate interpretations, such as the iconographic, semiological, psychoanalytic, sociological, historical, anthropological, and critical theory approaches.
Academic text (1992) -
Yet the political meaning that led Barthes to choose this particular Paris-Match cover as an exemplary cultural text is made subsidiary, in his argument, to its demonstration of the workings of signifier and signified in the semiological structure of myth.
Academic text (1998) -
References to Shakespeare in this film are something of a culmination of the semiological process I have described above.
Fiction book (1994) -
Some writers have recently adopted a semiological approach to explore "shared mental landscapes" in urban communities, an approach which promises to be very fruitful.
Academic text (1993) -
I begin by discussing the semiological foregrounding of "science" as a signifier of progress in 1960s British experimental art before moving on to Brooke-Rose's francophone inspirations and her process of composition.
Academic text (2017) -
The history of this semiological process can be traced to the beginning of twentieth-century popular culture, in the reviews of Shakespeare's introduction to mass entertainment, Max Reinhardt's and William Dieterle's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).
Fiction book (1994) -
The artist's work provides a semiological analysis of cultural symbols present in contemporary society.
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The professor taught a course on semiological methods to better understand communication and representation.
Synonyms
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About signs and symbols people use to make and share meaning like pictures or words
Relating to the study of signs and symbols and how they give meaning
About signs and symbols that give meaning, for example in advertising or traffic signs
Relating to signs that stand for ideas or feelings
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word semiological comes from the Greek root semeio- meaning 'sign' and the ending -logical meaning 'study of', so in art and language it means the study of signs and symbols and how we read their meaning.