semiotician

Examples

• All

• The semiotician presented her research on the interpretations of symbols in everyday life.

• Russian Formalist literary critics and Prague School semioticians tried to discern the forms and codes of cinema in techniques of cutting, camera position, and lighting.

  Academic text (1998)

• Because the pass is what semioticians would call a lapsed signifier.

  Fiction book (2001)

• While semioticians have examined these facets of contemporary tourism, few have examined these issues historically.

  Academic text (1994)

• Semioticians argue that meaning is not produced solely by collections of sounds or symbols that directly correspond with concepts.

  Academic text (2005)

• On initial examination, S/Z appears to be the systematic and expectedly detailed analysis of an individual text by an eminent semiotician.

  Academic text (2001)

• "This nonhistory of art is to arise from a multidisciplinary dialogue with semioticians, philosophers, and anthropologists."

  Academic text (1995)

• The schema for distinguishing sign and symbol, put forth by semiotician Michael Polanyi, can be helpful in understanding symbol as participating in the reality that it symbolizes.

  Academic text (2004)

• Although ethnohistorians or semioticians might wish for a fuller discussion of the content and imagery of these phrases, Maxwell and Hanson provide the tools for proceeding with further textual analysis.

  Academic text (1997)

• For Barthes, the task of the semiotician is to identify the codes operating in the text and thus to bring meaning to light, not by decoding the text, but by exposing the various codes, then allowing them to move outward, horizontally, or syntagmatically, to form their own semiotic system.

  Academic text (2001)

Synonyms

S

symbologist

vssemiotician

1 9.3

A person who studies what signs and pictures mean

is broader, covering signs as well as symbol use and theory

S

symbolizer

vssemiotician

• US

9.9

A person who explains the meaning of signs or images

is more academic, focusing on theoretical study of signs and symbol use

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology