10 Key words
- Signs
- Cultural meanings
- Greek "Semeios"
- Roland Barthes
- Levis Strauss
- Structuralism
- Postmodernity
- Aestheticization
- connotations
- Denotations
Red Herrings
- Semioticism
- Ugean Desus
- Post-semiotic
- Ferdinand De-Saussure
- Biosemiotics
Semiotics, also called semitic studies or semiology, is the study of sin processes, or signification and communication, signs and symbols, into three branches:
- Semantics: Relations between signs and the things to which they refer
- Syntactics: Relations of signs to each other in formal structures
- Pragmatics: Relations of signs to their impacts on those who use them
Semiotics is frequently seen as having important anthropological dimensions. In general, semiotics theories takesigns or sign systems as their object of study: the communication of information in living organisms is covered in Biosemiotics or zoosemiosis.
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