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Definition of semiotics in English: semiotics(also semeiotics) plural noun ˌsɛmɪˈɒtɪksˌsiːmɪˈɒtɪksˌsɛmiˈɑdɪks treated as singular The study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation. Example sentencesExamples - The act of signifying is signification, a term that is often used synonymously with ‘meaning’ and ‘sense’, and occurs in the discussions of students of semantics and semiotics.
- It is hardly surprising then that so many of them should be fascinated by semiotics - the signs and symbols by which we order our lives.
- In common with socio-linguistics, social semiotics assumes that language varies with social context, and also assumes that the reader of any narrative system plays an active part in its interpretation.
- She combines the methods of history, semantics, and semiotics to show how and why the formulae were first adopted in organic chemistry.
- Structuralism, semiotics, and later, psychoanalysis were all ransacked for help in understanding how a film achieved its effects.
- Endless books on the cinema - whether they propounded auteur theory or semiotics or cultural studies - forsook the intelligent general reader for arcane interpretation.
- Issues of race, gender, freedom, desire, language, mythology, sexuality, semiotics, signs, slavery, psychology, and power persisted in his fictions.
- Tartu University is known for work in linguistics and semiotics.
- This notion is in keeping with research in semiotics which demonstrates how signs, such as words, pictures, gestures, and so forth, make meaning.
- Those finding the answer in rhetoric (sound as oratorical figures) or semiotics (sound as signs) will alike pick on the more graphic elements in his music.
- I have always been concerned with semiotics - the study of signs and symbols as communication - and how so many persons fail to see how misleading certain subtle methods can be in deceiving them.
- Art historical practices driven by developments in literary criticism, semiotics, studies of gender, and ethnicity, to name but a few areas of concern, are moves in this direction.
- Studies in film semiotics will have us know that film itself functions as a cultural language, one that provides a distinct visual vocabulary upon which viewers will call to make sense of the fragmented culture in which they live.
- Anyway, in semiotics a sign is an abstract unit of social meaning.
- Language-based approaches, such as semiotics, structuralism, and post-structuralism, are not vision-based.
- Structuralism and semiotics thought more about the technicalities of linguistic and literary forms.
- Post-structuralism is just classical sceptical thought re-cast in the language of semiotics, Ursula.
- The distinctions between these two domains are frequently contested and debated in the realms of semiotics, structuralism, poetics, and aesthetics.
- The successors to Frazerism and ritualism have been principally two: structuralism and semiotics.
- Not all of which moves towards discursive literacy, nor is it meant to be captured solely by semiotics of language and linguistic systems.
Derivatives adjective ˌsiːmɪˈɒtɪkˌsɛmɪˈɒtɪkˌsɛmiˈɑdɪk Then the sentences will reveal their strange contribution, like the most original of exchanges: exchanges from within the first landscape of the semiotic world. Example sentencesExamples - Such semantic-functional categories can in principle be used across different semiotic modes in a way that formal linguistic categories cannot.
- Literature is seen as a particularly rich semiotic field with such sub-disciplines as literary and narrative semiotics.
- He says ‘not semiotically formed’ because he identifies the semiotic function with the linguistic one.
- In a conscious attempt to exploit architecture's semiotic potential, the architects have made use of new technology.
adjective ˌsiːmiˈɒtɪk(ə)lˌsɛmiˈɒtɪk(ə)l adverbˌsiːmiˈɒtɪkliˌsɛmiˈɒtɪkli Clothing has always been politically significant, creating a visual representation of a person's relationship to the state, and Fashion has always semiotically challenged, reinforced, and/or reconfigured meanings of citizenship. Example sentencesExamples - What is striking about David's interest in Fenelon and the episode he invented to convey the moral lessons of the story is the very flexible, open-ended way that his image unfolds semiotically.
- The transcendental unity of the semiotically self-sufficient text and undifferentiated spectator dissolved into a complex series of critical and discursive relations.
- Every vinyl or CD record is a semiotically complex textual unit.
- Each is semiotically rich and clearly implicated in the paradigmatic modern ideal of making the world smaller through transportation and communication.
nounˌsiːmɪəˈtɪʃ(ə)n For the semioticians, there are layers of double meaning that can be read into the errors. Example sentencesExamples - As musical semioticians would be first to point out, music is nothing if not a field rich in signifiers.
- In a sense, we are border semioticians and vernacular linguists.
- You can live in Scarsdale or in an ashram; you can be a court-of-appeals judge or a retro housewife, semiotician or banker, dermatologist or poet, lesbian or born-again, and you are still just one of us.
- Even solipsists look both ways before crossing a street and postmodernists, I suspect, submit their appendicitis to a surgeon, not a semiotician.
Origin Late 19th century: from Greek sēmeiotikos 'of signs', from sēmeioun 'interpret as a sign'. Definition of semiotics in US English: semiotics(also semeiotics) plural nounˌsɛmiˈɑdɪksˌsemēˈädiks treated as singular The study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation. Example sentencesExamples - Not all of which moves towards discursive literacy, nor is it meant to be captured solely by semiotics of language and linguistic systems.
- Structuralism and semiotics thought more about the technicalities of linguistic and literary forms.
- I have always been concerned with semiotics - the study of signs and symbols as communication - and how so many persons fail to see how misleading certain subtle methods can be in deceiving them.
- Structuralism, semiotics, and later, psychoanalysis were all ransacked for help in understanding how a film achieved its effects.
- Studies in film semiotics will have us know that film itself functions as a cultural language, one that provides a distinct visual vocabulary upon which viewers will call to make sense of the fragmented culture in which they live.
- Issues of race, gender, freedom, desire, language, mythology, sexuality, semiotics, signs, slavery, psychology, and power persisted in his fictions.
- Tartu University is known for work in linguistics and semiotics.
- This notion is in keeping with research in semiotics which demonstrates how signs, such as words, pictures, gestures, and so forth, make meaning.
- Language-based approaches, such as semiotics, structuralism, and post-structuralism, are not vision-based.
- Art historical practices driven by developments in literary criticism, semiotics, studies of gender, and ethnicity, to name but a few areas of concern, are moves in this direction.
- The act of signifying is signification, a term that is often used synonymously with ‘meaning’ and ‘sense’, and occurs in the discussions of students of semantics and semiotics.
- Anyway, in semiotics a sign is an abstract unit of social meaning.
- Endless books on the cinema - whether they propounded auteur theory or semiotics or cultural studies - forsook the intelligent general reader for arcane interpretation.
- The distinctions between these two domains are frequently contested and debated in the realms of semiotics, structuralism, poetics, and aesthetics.
- Post-structuralism is just classical sceptical thought re-cast in the language of semiotics, Ursula.
- The successors to Frazerism and ritualism have been principally two: structuralism and semiotics.
- In common with socio-linguistics, social semiotics assumes that language varies with social context, and also assumes that the reader of any narrative system plays an active part in its interpretation.
- It is hardly surprising then that so many of them should be fascinated by semiotics - the signs and symbols by which we order our lives.
- She combines the methods of history, semantics, and semiotics to show how and why the formulae were first adopted in organic chemistry.
- Those finding the answer in rhetoric (sound as oratorical figures) or semiotics (sound as signs) will alike pick on the more graphic elements in his music.
Origin Late 19th century: from Greek sēmeiotikos ‘of signs’, from sēmeioun ‘interpret as a sign’. |