semiology

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A critical analysis of issues and approaches in a variety of areas, ranging from the political economy of popular music through its history and ethnography to its semiology, aesthetics and ideology.

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  1. noun The science that deals with signs or sign language.
  2. noun The use of signs in signaling, as with a semaphore.
  3. noun Symptomatology.

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  • I'm going to do street semiology, traffic absence, and basic demographics. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#216
  • A critical analysis of issues and approaches in a variety of areas, ranging from the political economy of popular music through its history and ethnography to its semiology, aesthetics and ideology. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Semiology of graphics algorithm amalgamation animation building cartography contour evaluation generalisation geomorphometry gis hydrography information-theory internet land-use meteorology nma relief selection semiology spatial-analysis symbolisation time user-need CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • In an exploratory environment the animation will be one of the strong alterative views on the data that supports knowledge discovery. algorithm amalgamation animation building cartography contour evaluation generalisation geomorphometry gis hydrography information-theory internet land-use meteorology nma relief selection semiology spatial-analysis symbolisation time user-need CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • In Paris, her political instincts drew her to the radical filmmaker Tout Va Bien (1972), which co-starred her with the then-Communist sympathising French singer and actor Dziga Vertov Group in 1968 as a Marxist alternative to commercial cinema, made Letter to Jane (1972), a 52-minute film, in which the two directors discuss, in terms of what could be called applied semiology, a photograph of Fonda talking to a North Vietnamese soldier. —  GreenCine Daily
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  1. Greek sēmeion, sign; see semiotic + -logy.
 

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/simɪˈɑloʊkji/
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