semiotics
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- noun
- /ˌsɛmɪˈɒtɪks/
- Specialized
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semiótica
- The study of semiotics allows us to understand how signs and symbols communicate meaning.
- social semiotics
- semiotics and structuralism
- literary semiotics
Examples
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My goal has been to set the foundation for a Peircean exploration of the semiotics of emotional expression.
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During this social process of interaction, language as well as semiotics—such as signs, symbols, and pictures—are resources for meaning-making.
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Now, semiotics is not in itself a literary theory.
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The designer clearly did not study semiotics.
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To be clear, this is a thesis about the semiotics.
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One comment on how to observe the semiotics that form the basis of your consciousness.
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She's the new Semiotics Professor.
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We have included it under the rubric of Semiotics because of its primary interest in the study of language.
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If the social, economic, and moral implications of a semiotics of physical impairment are merciless, its metaliterary significances offer no compassion either.
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The required interdisciplinary sensitivity encourages eye-opening dialogues between geographers and scholars in such fields as semiotics, aesthetics, and material-culture studies.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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A way of using images or objects to stand for ideas and qualities
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The study or use of symbols that show ideas
The study of signs and symbols, like words or pictures, and how they create meaning in language and communication
How Specialized
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word semiotics comes from the Greek root semeion meaning 'sign', and it is the same idea behind English words like sign and signal. So, semiotics is the study of signs and symbols and how they give meaning and help people communicate.