semiotics

Noun

Meaning

Semeiology.

Same as Semeiotics.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

semiology definition interpretation explanation indication symbolism exposition connotation parole denotation explication semantics diagnostics atomism lexicology
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Antonyms

daze enigma problem question difficulty challenge
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Hypernyms

philosophical doctrine philosophical theory

Related terms

semiotic semantics semantic seme semasiology sematology

Phrases with the word

semiotics analyst sociological semiotics semiotics expert semiotics scholar

Anagrams

societism

Examples

Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used "to tell" at all. Umberto Eco

Every specific semiotics (as every science) is concerned with general epistemological problems. Umberto Eco

A general semiotics transforms, for the very fact of its theoretical claim, its own object. Umberto Eco

Not every specific semiotics can claim to be like a natural science. In fact, every specific semiotics is at most a human science, and everybody knows how controversial such a notion still is. Umberto Eco

A general semiotics studies the whole of the human signifying activity - languages - and languages are what constitutes human beings as such, that is, as semiotic animals. It studies and describes languages through languages. Umberto Eco

President Trump is too set in his ways and independent-minded to imbibe the layers of debased semiotics with which government lawyers routinely rape reality. Ilana Mercer

Close letter words and terms

semiotically semiotician semioticist semiotics analyst semiotics expert semiotics scholar