Semiotics (/ˌsɛmiˈɒtɪks/ SEM-ee-OT-iks) is the systematic study of sign processes and the communication of meaning. In semiotics, a sign is defined as...
88 KB (10,853 words) - 14:37, 2 November 2024
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...
29 KB (4,121 words) - 11:40, 29 June 2024
performing semiotic analysis. The former focuses on what semiotics can bring to computation; the latter on what computation can bring to semiotics. A common...
8 KB (806 words) - 20:40, 30 July 2024
Semiotic literary criticism, also called literary semiotics, is the approach to literary criticism informed by the theory of signs or semiotics. Semiotics...
4 KB (517 words) - 12:55, 23 October 2024
Social semiotics (also social semantics) is a branch of the field of semiotics which investigates human signifying practices in specific social and cultural...
12 KB (1,675 words) - 00:15, 27 October 2023
Structuralism (redirect from Structural semiotics)
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...
33 KB (3,959 words) - 19:45, 1 November 2024
Symbol (redirect from Symbols (semiotics))
indicator of universal truth. Semiotics is the study of signs, symbols, and signification as communicative behavior. Semiotics studies focus on the relationship...
18 KB (2,442 words) - 13:23, 29 October 2024
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...
62 KB (6,273 words) - 03:18, 17 October 2024
Biosemiotics (redirect from Semiotic biology)
organisms at their cellular and tissue level; vegetative semiotics includes prokaryote semiotics, sign-mediated interactions in bacteria communities such...
18 KB (1,931 words) - 12:51, 23 October 2024
Film semiotics is the study of sign process (semiosis), or any form of activity, conduct, or any process that involves signs, including the production...
11 KB (1,464 words) - 10:13, 22 June 2024
logic as formal semiotic. By "logic" he meant philosophical logic. He eventually divided (philosophical) logic, or formal semiotics, into (1) speculative...
71 KB (8,891 words) - 04:26, 27 April 2024
Content word (redirect from Lexical (semiotics))
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...
3 KB (331 words) - 14:28, 3 April 2023
Visual semiotics is a sub-domain of semiotics that analyses the way visual images communicate a message. Studies of meaning evolve from semiotics, a philosophical...
10 KB (1,423 words) - 14:48, 21 October 2024
Connotation and denotation Connotation Denotation Connotation in semiotics Denotation in semiotics Denotational semantics Fully abstract Information theory Ideasthesia...
5 KB (653 words) - 11:07, 11 June 2024
Cognitive semiotics is the study model of meaning-making, applying methods and theories from semiotics, linguistics, psychology, cognitive science, computational...
7 KB (1,011 words) - 06:23, 5 August 2024
Works and the Square of Oppositions in Semiotics," Logica Universalis. 2(1): 107-126. Chandler, Daniel. 2007. Semiotics: The Basics. London: Routledge. Luca...
8 KB (967 words) - 08:26, 26 September 2023
through dress. Ferdinand de Saussure defined semiotics as "the science of the life of signs in society". Semiotics is the study of signs and just as we can...
5 KB (705 words) - 14:45, 18 October 2024
following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to semiotics: Semiotics – study of meaning-making, signs and sign processes (semiosis), indication...
20 KB (1,917 words) - 19:10, 10 June 2024
Semiotics of the Kitchen is a feminist parody single-channel video and performance piece released in 1975 by Martha Rosler. The video, which runs six...
5 KB (464 words) - 05:33, 13 September 2024
Acting (redirect from Semiotics of acting)
radio broadcast, each of which involves different semiotic systems) considered as a whole. A semiotics of acting recognises that all forms of acting involve...
29 KB (3,721 words) - 19:36, 5 October 2024
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...
2 KB (293 words) - 03:15, 5 April 2024
Information (section Semiotics)
considered in terms of four inter-dependent levels, layers or branches of semiotics: pragmatics, semantics, syntax, and empirics. These four layers serve...
40 KB (4,657 words) - 01:06, 29 September 2024
Information theory (redirect from Semiotic information theory)
having created a theory of information in his works on semiotics.: 171 : 137 Nauta defined semiotic information theory as the study of "the internal processes...
59 KB (7,563 words) - 06:04, 2 November 2024
cultural and societal positions. "Semiotics" is defined as the philosophical study and interpretation of signs. The semiotic system is not limited to just...
12 KB (1,680 words) - 15:33, 7 September 2023
Decoding, in semiotics, is the process of interpreting a message sent by an addresser (sender) to an addressee (receiver). The complementary process –...
17 KB (2,112 words) - 18:29, 14 October 2023
Alien (film) (redirect from Semiotic Standard)
Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Dan O'Bannon, based on a story by O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett. It follows...
159 KB (17,930 words) - 10:09, 2 November 2024
British Columbia. Chandler, Daniel (2022). Semiotics: The Basics. Oxon: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-000-56294-1. "Semiotics for Beginners: Signs". www.cs.princeton...
55 KB (6,573 words) - 23:51, 15 October 2024
Long-term nuclear waste warning messages (redirect from Nuclear semiotics)
future, within or above the order of magnitude of 10,000 years. Nuclear semiotics is an interdisciplinary field of research, first established by the American...
23 KB (2,458 words) - 07:53, 24 October 2024
Signified and signifier (category Semiotics)
In semiotics, signified and signifier (French: signifié and signifiant) are the two main components of a sign, where signified is what the sign represents...
20 KB (2,416 words) - 19:41, 20 September 2024
Algirdas Julien Greimas (section Discourse semiotics)
signification, plastic semiotics, and laid the foundations for the Parisian school of semiotics. Among Greimas's major contributions to semiotics are the concepts...
25 KB (2,547 words) - 11:26, 21 August 2024