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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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I always think about what the semiotics of a project are when I take it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2025

“I don’t have anything to say. It’s the semiotics of theater without the content.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 23, 2022

Saussure held that there were structural laws that define how linguistic signification operated; the semiotics of Saussure and Pierce were the means of discovering these laws.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022

I have no grand theory or profound observations about semiotics and music to explain why this is.

From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2022

A degree in semiotics was not required to see that I was in the presence of an ironist.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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