Definitions
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- noun One who practices or studies
semiology .
Etymologies
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semiology + -ist
Examples
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Despite their penurious situation, both Steimberg and her younger brother Oscar (b. 1936), a well-known semiologist, studied at university.
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This enrages the composer, who, defending the empirical honor of 60's Motown, impulsively shoots the old semiologist.
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AllRussian semiologist Yuri M. Lotman has analyzed how epidemics of fear work through the study of witch-hunting processes that claimed thousands of victims in Catholic and Protestant countries centuries ago.
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The Spanish semiologist points out that "it is not the threat that creates fear, but rather fear that creates the threat".
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