Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The theory and study of signs and symbols, especially as elements of language or other systems of communication, and comprising semantics, syntactics, and pragmatics.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The doctrine or science of signs; the language of signs.
- n. 2. Specifically, that branch of pathology which is concerned with the significance of all symptoms in the human body, whether healthy or diseased; symptomatology; semiology.
Wiktionary
- n. The study of signs and symbols, especially as means of language or communication.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Same as semeiotics.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (philosophy) a philosophical theory of the functions of signs and symbols
Etymologies
- Coined by John Locke from Ancient Greek σημειωτικός (sēmeiōtikós, "fitted for marking, portending"), from σημειοῦν (semeioun, "to mark, interpret as a portend"), from σημεῖον (semeion, "a mark, sign, token"), from σῆμα (sema, "mark, sign"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Clearly, naming things is one of the major themes of the book, and the nature of signs (as in semiotics as well as the paranoid mediaeval style), is what Eco is really interested in, hence the title and the latin riddle that finishes the novel: Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus.”
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“Recommended if … you majored in semiotics at Brown or Finnegans Wake is your favorite book.”
Canadian Novelist Gail Scott’s Paris « One-Minute Book Reviews
“How to represent a concept like a Service with a symbol that provides meaning and is useful to its users falls under the topic of semiotics, which is the study of how symbols come to have meaning (semantics), how those symbols relate to one another (syntax), and how people do useful things with their symbols (pragmatics).”
“Ecosemiotics can be defined as the semiotics of relationships between nature and culture.”
“Good oration, but I really really hope you mean "semiotics" there at the end.”
“The paper or presentation refers to "semiotics" at least three times.”
“Can anyone help me understand "semiotics", types of signs, I don't get it?”
“The study discusses areas such as semiotics, emotional design, technology, 1 introduction consumer behavior and marketing.”
“semiotics": how we use symbols to communicate, how these symbols gain meaning, and how we use symbols differently than any other creature.”
“And during the pell-mell festival of fall looks that ended Thursday, everything hung on how runway semiotics play to fashion editors and buyers.”
The Washington Post: New York Fashion Week 2011: Showmanship by Michael Kors, Thom Browne, Derek Lam
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘semiotics’.
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INTERP - terminology management terms
Terms from the fields of terminology, lexicography, lexicology and corpus linguistics
reworder, rewording, parser, parsing, tagger, tagging, aligner, aligning, content analysis, content analyzer, corpus management, glossary and 546 more...
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phrontistery-s
from phrontistery.info
sabaton, sabbatarian, sabbulonarium, sabelline, sabin, sable, sabliere, sabot, sabretache, sabulous, saburration, saccade and 1593 more...
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Specifically
Being a list of words which have "specifically" in their definitions.
recompose, specifically, Dutch, abstinence, discipline, virtue, namely, opening, century, amalgamation, cup, second and 303 more...
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Charles Sanders Peirce
Part of what I love about this site is that we have access to the Century Dictionary, and part of what I love about the Century Dictionary is that it turns out that many of my favorite definitions ...
Charles Sanders P..., Peirce, peirce, saturn's ring, semiotics, Benjamin Peirce, Arisbe, Harriet Melusina Fay, Simon Newcomb, Juliette Annette ..., Juliette Pourtalai, trigeminal neuralgia and 23 more...
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Emblematics
Sigility: avatars and representative figures. Types of symbols: academic, religious, abstract.
avatar, representative, emblem, sigil, semiotics, personification, totemic, creaturism, placeholder, iconolatry, egregore, thoughtform and 24 more...
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-ics
art; science; activities
mathematics, statistics, physics, linguistics, electronics, narcotics, orthodontics, orthopedics, cryogenics, bionics, semiotics
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philosophical concepts
Different concepts and branches of philosophy which haven't become independent fields of investigation. For example, "physicalism" is valid but not "physics", "scientism" but not "science", "cogni...
philosophy, ontology, epistemology, ethics, logic, nominalism, analytic philosophy, semiotics, structuralism, deconstructionism, postmodernism, skepticism and 40 more...
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theory and history of art: terms and ...
phenomenological, nonphenomenological, kineticism, mechanizing, digitalizing, utations, trajectory, synthesized, spatio-temporal, proliferation, quantification, iterative and 118 more...
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logos's list
A poor pathetic thing, but mine own.
invidious, lugubriousness, vilify, noisome, synastry, front and center, declension, conjugation, regnal, diphthong, circumlocution, bishopric and 141 more...
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Vega's Logophile Dictionary
Words I've heard/read in use, words being learnt, words that I want to eventually use in everyday language, words that are high-brow and elitist and scholarly and obscure, words that display the wo...
parsimonious, torpor, recalcitrant, plebeian, vitriol, gumption, augur, aestival, celerity, diaphanous, farrago, nonpareil and 287 more...
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quality words
This is a mix of new words I've read studying for the GRE verbal and words I use normally. I also check back on these words if I don't use them often enough.
ineffable, septuagenarian, sesquipedalian, argyle, coalescence, profundity, vivisepulture, defenestrate, concatenate, usurp, diatribe, veracious and 461 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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Words I like
There's nothing more to this list, really.
lily, defenestrate, gloaming, aesthetically, melody, translucent, semiotics, wistful, linear, origami, plethora, schadenfreude and 92 more...
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Logodaedalus' Lexical Locutionary
Discombobulating the illiterate since the middle of the last century.
adiaphora, agitprop, alliteration, apophthegm, autarky, bête noire, bezoar, biorhythm, braggadocio, canaille, confabulate, confrère and 339 more...
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parody's Words
defenestrate, behemoth, floss, macchiato, glom, emu, alpaca, crocheted, ampersand, charade, conflate, salacious and 193 more...
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Joe's list
Fissiparous Weekly Standard Nigeria a fissiparous country 3/2012
fissiparous, inchoate, punctilious, synecdoche, apocryphal, superadd, pedant, pedagogy, astigmatic, inter alia, aphoristically, eponymous and 131 more...
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