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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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The mischievous professor, who was a magnet for wanna-be semioticians in the 1980s, has not lost his touch — or any of his charisma.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2017

Welles was at the time in the grip of the semioticians: everything was polyvalent, polysemous, above all polysyllabic.

From The Guardian • Nov. 28, 2015

Scientists may well have trouble with this, but semioticians will have less.

From Salon • Aug. 15, 2015

Instead of the "blinky people in her Beowulf seminar," Madeleine finds herself among a hipper, more jaded set—the semioticians.

From Slate • Oct. 10, 2011

Face-to-face communication, or iteration, attracted the attention of semioticians because codes other than those of language are at work.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai




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