The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to semiotics:
Contents
- What type of thing is semiotics
- Three main branches
- Subfields
- History of semiotics
- Methods of semiotics
- Semiotic analyses
- General semiotics concepts
- Semiotics organizations
- Semiotics publications
- Persons influential in semiotics
- Cognitive semioticians
- Literary semioticians
- Social semioticians
- References
Semiotics – study of meaning-making, signs and sign processes (semiosis), indication, designation, likeness, analogy, metaphor, symbolism, signification, and communication. Semiotics is closely related to the field of linguistics, which, for its part, studies the structure and meaning of language more specifically. Also called semiotic studies, or semiology (in the Saussurean tradition).
What type of thing is semiotics?
Semiotics can be described as all of the following:
Three main branches
Subfields
History of semiotics
Methods of semiotics
Semiotic analyses
General semiotics concepts
Semiotics organizations
Semiotics publications
Persons influential in semiotics
Cognitive semioticians
Literary semioticians
Social semioticians
References
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