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semiotics

[see-mee-ot-iks, sem-ee-, see-mahy-] / ˌsi miˈɒt ɪks, ˌsɛm i-, ˌsi maɪ- /
NOUN
study of signs as elements of communication
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Semiotics an analysis of how meaning is created through symbols, both linguistic and nonlinguistic.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

Made in 1977, when Fischer was in his 20s, the Gay Semiotics series is a wonderfully poker-faced portrait of queer male culture in San Francisco’s Castro and Haight-Ashbury neighbourhoods at their carefree apogee.

From The Guardian • Mar. 1, 2017

Agron keeps the top button of her cute little pastel cardigans buttoned, and if that's not symbolic I'm handing in my membership card to the International Semiotics Union right now.

From Salon • Feb. 17, 2011

They sent out a perfume that drifted through the windows of Semiotics 211.

From The New Yorker • May 31, 2010

Semiotics Strikes Out It so happened in heaven one day that two souls who had been friends in their college years on earth met after long lives apart.

From Stories from the Old Attic by Harris, Robert A.




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