semiology

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The science or art of signs.

The science of the signs or symptoms of disease; symptomatology.

The art of using signs in signaling.

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De Saussur... develops the concept of semiology as the science which studies the functioning of signs in society, and treats linguistics as a branch of such a general science of signs. Adam Schaff

Musical semiotics further Semiotician Roman Jakobson Music semiology ( semiotics ) is the study of signs as they pertain to music on a variety of levels. Source: Internet

In any event, it winds up contradicting the most interesting critical motive of the Course, making of linguistics the regulatory model, the "pattern" for a general semiology of which it was to be, by all rights and theoretically, only a part. Source: Internet

His ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments both in linguistics and semiology in the 20th century. Source: Internet

Saussure believed that semiotics is concerned with everything that can be taken as a sign, he called it semiology. Source: Internet

Saussure explicitly suggested that linguistics was only a branch of a more general semiology, of a science of signs in general, being human codes only one among others. Source: Internet

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