Outline of semiotics

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to semiotics:

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:

Branches of 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

See also

References

  1. Keller, Suzanne. "Review". Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 17, No. 3. (May, 1988), pp. 346-348.
  2. Gottdienier, M., and Lagopoulos, Alexandros, eds. The City and the Sign: An Introduction to Urban Semiotics, New York: Columbia University Press, 1986. p.5
  3. Wikibooks.org

External links

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