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semiotics|siːmɪˈɒtɪks, sɛmɪ-|
Also semeiotics |siːmaɪ-|.
[ad. Gr. σηµειωτική, ellipt. use (sc. τέχνη) of the fem. of σηµειωτικός semiotic. See -ic 2.]
1. The branch of medical science relating to the interpretation of symptoms.
1670H. Stubbe Plus Ultra 75 Semeiotics, method of curing, and tried..medicines. 1793Holcroft tr. Lavater's Physiog. iii. 27, I shall now proceed to consider Medicinal Semeiotics, or the signs of Health and Sickness. 1867Corfe in Med. Times & Gaz. 7 Sept. 252/1 Semeiotics may be construed as the doctrinal language of pathology. 1873Wagner tr. Teuffel's Hist. Rom. Lit. II. 26 The second [treats] of semiotics and general pathology and therapy.
2. The science of communication studied through the interpretation of signs and symbols as they operate in various fields, esp. language (see semiotic n. for parallel form). Cf. semiology.
1880G. Mallery Introd. Study Sign Lang. among N. Amer. Indians 4 Our native semiotics will surely help the archæologist in his study of native picture-writing. 1911A. M. Ludovici tr. F. Nietzsche's Antichrist in Twilight of Idols xxxii. 169 One should guard against seeing anything more than a language of signs, semeiotics, an opportunity for parables in all this. 1955A. Huxley Genius & Goddess 42 He kissed her—kissed her with an intensity of passion..for which the semiotics and the absent-mindedness had left her entirely unprepared. 1964T. Sebeok et al. Approaches to Semiotics 5 Margaret Mead proposed semiotics..as a term which might aptly cover ‘patterned communication in all modalities’. 1973D. Osmond-Smith tr. Bettelini's Lang. & Technique of Film i. 2 Some talk of a universal semiotics, capable of including within itself all aspects of the film as sign-system. 1980Semiotica XXIX. 185 (heading) A firework for the semiotics of visible human action. |