A report on Semiotics
Systematic study of sign processes (semiosis) and meaning making.
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Sign (semiotics)
8 linksIn semiotics, a sign is anything that communicates a meaning that is not the sign itself to the interpreter of the sign.
Ferdinand de Saussure
8 linksFerdinand de Saussure (26 November 1857 – 22 February 1913) was a Swiss linguist, semiotician and philosopher.
Biosemiotics
7 linksBiosemiotics (from the Greek βίος bios, "life" and σημειωτικός sēmeiōtikos, "observant of signs") is a field of semiotics and biology that studies the prelinguistic meaning-making, biological interpretation processes, production of signs and codes and communication processes in the biological realm.
Linguistics
7 linksScientific study of human language.
Scientific study of human language.
Linguistics is related to philosophy of language, stylistics and rhetorics, semiotics, lexicography, and translation; philology, from which linguistics emerged, is variably described as a related field, a subdiscipline, or to have been superseded altogether.
Thomas Sebeok
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Thomas Albert Sebeok (Sebők Tamás, ; 1920–2001) was a Hungarian-born American polymath, semiotician, and linguist.
Structuralism
9 linksGeneral theory of culture and methodology that implies that elements of human culture must be understood by way of their relationship to a broader system.
General theory of culture and methodology that implies that elements of human culture must be understood by way of their relationship to a broader system.
Apart from Durkheim's use of the term structure, the semiological concept of Ferdinand de Saussure became fundamental for structuralism.
Literary theory
7 linksSystematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for literary analysis.
Systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for literary analysis.
Consequently, the word theory became an umbrella term for scholarly approaches to reading texts, some of which are informed by strands of semiotics, cultural studies, philosophy of language, and continental philosophy.
Juri Lotman
5 linksJuri Lotman (Ю́рий Миха́йлович Ло́тман; 28 February 1922 – 28 October 1993) was a prominent Russian-Estonian literary scholar, semiotician, and historian of Russian culture, who worked at the University of Tartu.
Jacques Derrida
6 linksAlgerian-born French philosopher best known for developing a philosophical approach that came to be known as deconstruction, an approach he utilized in numerous texts, and which was developed through close readings of the linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure and Husserlian and Heideggerian phenomenology.
Algerian-born French philosopher best known for developing a philosophical approach that came to be known as deconstruction, an approach he utilized in numerous texts, and which was developed through close readings of the linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure and Husserlian and Heideggerian phenomenology.
This approach to text is, in a broad sense, influenced by the semiology of Ferdinand de Saussure.
Charles Sanders Peirce
4 linksAmerican philosopher, logician, mathematician and scientist who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism".
American philosopher, logician, mathematician and scientist who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism".
He saw logic as the formal branch of semiotics, of which he is a founder, which foreshadowed the debate among logical positivists and proponents of philosophy of language that dominated 20th-century Western philosophy.