semiotics

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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

The symbols themselves shift, even though the structure of the semiotics is always the same...

From Salon • Mar. 18, 2023

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

In “Negroland,” Jefferson wrote about the semiotics of self-presentation — how an unmoisturized elbow or knee signaled deficiency, while a closet full of occasion-specific pocketbooks stood for irreproachable preparedness.

From New York Times • Apr. 12, 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