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The study of signs and symbols, especially as means of language or communication.
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Semiotics — Semiotics, semiotic studies, or semiology is the study of sign processes (semiosis), or signification and communication, signs and symbols, both individually and grouped into sign systems. It includes the study of how meaning is constructed and… … Wikipedia
Semiotics — Se mi*ot ics, n. Same as {Semeiotics}. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
semiotics — study of signs and symbols with special regard to function and origin, 1880, from SEMIOTIC (Cf. semiotic); also see ICS (Cf. ics) … Etymology dictionary
semiotics — Semiotics Семиотика Междисциплинарная область, охватывающая различные науки (естественные, гуманитарные и технические) и изучающая знаки и знаковые системы; Также совокупность концепций, теорий и методов анализа разнообразных значений и… … Толковый англо-русский словарь по нанотехнологии. - М.
semiotics — [n] study of signs as elements of communication langue, parole, pragmatics, semantics, sign systems, symbolism, syntactics; concept 349 … New thesaurus
semiotics — ► PLURAL NOUN (treated as sing. ) ▪ the study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation. DERIVATIVES semiotic adjective semiotician noun. ORIGIN from Greek s meiotikos of signs … English terms dictionary
semiotics — [sē΄mē ät′iks, sem΄ēät′iks] n. [Gr sēmeiōtikos < sēmeion, sign, akin to sēma: see SEMANTIC] Philos. a general theory of signs and symbols; esp., the analysis of the nature and relationships of signs in language, usually including three… … English World dictionary
semiotics — by Inna Semetsky Semiotics is, in general, the study of signs and their signification. Deleuze and Guattari s semiotics present a conceptual mix of Charles S. Peirce s logic of relatives and Louis Hjelmslev s linguistics; both frameworks… … The Deleuze dictionary
semiotics — by Inna Semetsky Semiotics is, in general, the study of signs and their signification. Deleuze and Guattari s semiotics present a conceptual mix of Charles S. Peirce s logic of relatives and Louis Hjelmslev s linguistics; both frameworks… … The Deleuze dictionary
semiotics — semiotician /see mee euh tish euhn, sem ee , see muy /, n. /see mee ot iks, sem ee , see muy /, n. (used with a sing. v.) 1. the study of signs and symbols as elements of communicative behavior; the analysis of systems of communication, as… … Universalium
Semiotics — Semeiotics Se mei*ot ics (s[=e] m[ i]*[o^]t [i^]ks), or Semiotics Se mi*ot ics, n. 1. The study of signs as an element of communication; the analysis of systems of communication; also called {semiology}. [PJC] 2. a theory of signs and symbols,… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
