Definition of Semiotics. Meaning of Semiotics. Synonyms of Semiotics

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Definition of Semiotics

Semiotics
Semiotics Se`mi*ot"ics, n. Same as Semeiotics.
Semiotics
Semeiotics Se`mei*ot"ics, or Semiotics Se`mi*ot"ics, n. Semeiology.
Semiotic
Semiotic Se`mi*ot"ic, a. Same as Semeiotic.
Semiotic
Semeiotic Se`mei*ot"ic, or Semiotic Se`mi*ot"ic, a. [Gr. ????, fr. shmei^on a mark, a sign.] 1. Relating to signs or indications; pertaining to the language of signs, or to language generally as indicating thought. 2. (Med.) Of or pertaining to the signs or symptoms of diseases.

Meaning of Semiotics from wikipedia

- part of communications. Unlike linguistics, semiotics also studies non-linguistic sign systems. Semiotics includes the study of indication, designation...
- Hypertext, in semiotics, is a text which alludes to, derives from, or relates to an earlier work or hypotext (a subsequent of a hypotext). For example...
- Social semiotics (also social semantics) is a branch of the field of semiotics which investigates human signifying practices in specific social and cultural...
- In semiotics, a sign is anything that communicates a meaning that is not the sign itself to the interpreter of the sign. The meaning can be intentional...
- indicator of universal truth. Semiotics is the study of signs, symbols, and signification as communicative behavior. Semiotics studies focus on the relationship...
- a system of recurrent patterns or motifs. The field of structuralist semiotics argues that there must be a structure in every text, which explains why...
- performing semiotic analysis. The former focuses on what semiotics can bring to com****tion; the latter on what com****tion can bring to semiotics. A common...
- Film semiotics is the study of sign process (semiosis), or any form of activity, conduct, or any process that involves signs, including the production...
- Eco's book Faith in Fakes. Eco's approach to semiotics is often referred to as "interpretative semiotics". In his first book-length elaboration, his theory...
- Content words, in linguistics, are words that possess semantic content and contribute to the meaning of the sentence in which they occur. In a traditional...