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Semiotics: Encyclopedia - Semiotics

Semiotics, or semiology, is the study of signs, both individually and grouped in sign systems. It includes the study of how meaning is made and understood. Semioticians also sometimes examine how organisms, no matter how big or small, make predictions about and adapt to their semiotic niche in the world (see Semiosis). Semiotics theorises at a general level about signs, while the study of the communication of information ...

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Semiotics: Encyclopedia - Computational semiotics Computational semiotics is the application of semiotics to computing machinery. It is the attempt to expand the realm of useful, computationally tractable logical operations, extending computer science past data processing into full semiosis. It may be understood as a kind of inquiry into artificial intelligence and knowledge representation but rooted in sign theory. One part of this field, known as algebraic semiotics, combines aspects of algebraic specification and social semiotics, and has been applied to user inte ...

Semiotics: Encyclopedia - Americanism semiotics

In semiotics, an Americanism is a particular usage, i.e., it is a word or phrase being used by the native speakers of English in the United States that is classified by non-Americans as particularly characteristic of the American English style of writing or speaking. Whether this characterisation is correct is irrelevant — it is the perception of the outsiders that is significant. Americanism semiotics - Explanation. Every culture develops new words, adds new connotations to existing words, ...

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Semiotics: Encyclopedia - Value semiotics

In semiotics, the value of a sign depends on its position and relations in the system of signification and upon the particular codes being used. Value semiotics - Definitions. Drawing from the original definition proposed by Saussure (1857-1913), a sign has two parts: as a signifier, i.e. it will have a form that a person can see, touch, smell, and/or hear, and as the signified, i.e. it will represent an idea or mental construct of a thing rather than the t ...

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Semiotics: Encyclopedia - Connotation semiotics

In semiotics, connotation arises when the denotative relationship between a signifier and its signified is inadequate to serve the needs of the community. A second level of meanings is termed connotative. These meanings are not objective representations of the thing, but new usages produced by the language group. Connotation semiotics - Discussion. Drawing from the original definition proposed by Saussure (1857-1913), a sign has two parts: as a signifier, i.e. it will have a form ...

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Connotation semiotics - Discussion

Semiotics: Encyclopedia - Code semiotics

In semiotics, the concept of a code is of fundamental importance. Saussure (1857-1913) emphasised that signs only acquire meaning and value when they are interpreted in relation to each other. He believed that the relationship between the signifier and the signified was arbitrary. Hence, interpreting signs requires familiarity with the sets of conventions or codes currently in use to communicate meaning. Roman Jakobson (1896-1982) elaborated the idea that the production and interpretation of texts depends on the existence of codes or ...

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Code semiotics - Discussion

Semiotics: Encyclopedia II - Semiotics - Clarification of terms

Semioticians classify signs and sign systems in relation to the way they are transmitted (see modality). This process of carrying meaning depends on the use of codes that may be the individual noises or letters that humans use to form words, the body movements they make to show attitude or emotion, or even something as general as the clothes they wear. To coin a word to refer to a thing (see lexical words), the community must agree on a simple meaning (a denotative meaning) within their language. But that word can transmit that meanin ...

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Semiotics: Encyclopedia - D.O.T. pictograms

The pictograms or "symbol signs" used by the United States Department of Transportation (DOT) are intended to convey information useful to travelers without resorting to verbal language. Among these pictograms, for example, are the now-familiar graphics representing "Toilets" and "Telephone." Since their introduction in 1974, they have found widespread use in airports, train stations, hotels and other public places not only in the United States but also around the world. As a result of this near-universal acceptance, some describe the ...

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D.O.T. pictograms - History

Semiotics: Encyclopedia - Meaning

A meaning is a set of thoughts that people take symbols to have. Meanings can do many things, such as provoke a certain idea, or denote a certain real-world entity. Meanings can be linguistic and non-linguistic. Linguistic meaning is any meaning that words and other items of language have. Non-linguistic meaning is whatever meaning can be conveyed without the use of language. Meanings can be presented through various different mediums, or vehicles of communication. The kind of medium that is used determines ...

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Meaning - Philosophical approaches

Meaning - Linguistic approaches

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Semiotics: Encyclopedia - Interpretation

Interpretation, or interpreting, is an activity that consists of establishing, either simultaneously or consecutively, oral or gestural communications between two or more speakers who are not able to use the same set of symbols. By definition it is available as a method only in those cases where there is a need for interpretation - if an object (of art, of speech, etc.) is obvious to begin with, it cannot draw an interpretation. In any case the term interpretation is ambiguous, as it may refer to both an ongoing process and a result. ...

Semiotics: Encyclopedia - Aestheticization of violence

Aesthetics is the branch of philosophy that studies the nature of beauty and the moral value of art, so the aestheticization of violence is the process of making the act and the product of violence appear attractive. Aestheticization of violence - The power of art. High culture has the capacity to aestheticize violence into a form of autonomous art. "If any human act evokes the aesthetic experience of the sublime, certainly it is the act of murder. And if murder can be experienced aesthetically, the murdere ...

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Semiotics: Encyclopedia - Sign

Sign can denote any of the following: In astrology sign is often used to mean the Sun sign. In communication sign or signing refers to communicating via hand gestures, such as sign language. In computing, the digits where one bit among them tells the number is either negative or non-negative are called signed, otherwise unsigned. See also: Signedness In divination a sign is an omen, an event or occurrence believed to fortell the future. In lingu ...

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Semiotics: Encyclopedia - Symbol

A symbol, in its basic sense, is a conventional representation of a concept or quantity; i.e., an idea, object, concept, quality, etc. In more psychological and philosophical terms, all concepts are symbolic in nature, and representations for these concepts are simply token artifacts that are allegorical to (but do not directly codify) a symbolic meaning, or symbolism. Spoken language, for example, consists of distinct auditory tokens for representing symbolic concepts (words), arranged in an order which further suggests ...

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Semiotics: Encyclopedia - Aestheticization as propaganda

Aesthetics is the branch of philosophy that studies the nature of beauty and the moral value of art, so aestheticization as propaganda is the process of presenting violence as an acceptable means of promoting a political aim even though it involves the injury or death of people. Each culture will formulate mechanisms for considering the acceptability of such outcomes. For example, utilitarianism may take the ontological view that the greatest good will be achieved for the largest number of people if violence is used in particular situ ...

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Semiotics: Encyclopedia - Charles W. Morris

Charles W. Morris (1901-1979) was a semiotician and philosopher. He was a student of George Herbert Mead at the University of Chicago. His approach to semiotics was based on a threefold division of a sign into a sign vehicle, designatum, and interpreter, a concept which first appeared in his book Foundations of the Theory of Signs. His books in the field of semiotics include: Foundations of the Theory of Signs (1938) Signs, Language, and Behavior (1946) ...

Semiotics: Encyclopedia - Americanism

Americanism may refer to: Americanism, a word coined in American English but recognised as characteristic of the way in which most Americans speak. For a more technical explanation based in semiotics see: Americanism (semiotics) the belief that American values are the most ideal of cultural values or an attitude that gives special importance for the United States of America. See Culture of the United States and American exceptionalism. Americanism, a supposed heresy s

Semiotics: Encyclopedia - List of academic disciplines

This is a list of academic disciplines (and academic fields). An academic discipline is a branch of knowledge which is formally taught, either at the university, or via some other such method. Functionally, disciplines are usually defined and recognised by the academic journals in which research is published, and the learned societies to which their practitioners belong. Each discipline usually has several sub-disciplines or branch ...

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Semiotics: Encyclopedia - Biosemiotics

Biosemiotics (bios=life & semion=sign) is a growing field that studies the production, action and interpretation of signs in the physical and biologic realm, in an attempt to integrate the findings of scientific biology and semiotics to form a new view of life and meaning as immanent features of the natural world. The term "biosemiotic" was first used by F.S.Rothschild in 1962, but Thomas Sebeok has done much to popularize the term and field. Thus, biosemiotics is ...

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Semiotics: Encyclopedia - Cultural studies

Cultural studies combines sociology, social theory, literary theory, film/video studies, cultural anthropology and art history/criticism to study cultural phenomena in industrial societies. Cultural studies researchers often concentrate on how a particular phenomenon relates to matters of ideology, race, social class, and/or gender. Cultural studies concerns itself with the meaning and practices of everyday life. Cultural practices comprise the ways people do particular things (such as watching television, or eating out) in a given culture. Particular meanings atta ...