semiotics

Example Sentences

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I always think about what the semiotics of a project are when I take it.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2025

Roland Barthes was a French literary critic who worked in semiotics, the study of signs and symbols, just as Jung did.

From Salon • Nov. 29, 2024

Marcel Danesi is Professor Emeritus of linguistic anthropology and semiotics at the University of Toronto.

From Salon • Jul. 18, 2023

Stallone’s presence in the earlier “Creed” movies ensured that the franchise remained tethered to his legacy, with its sequels and fraught semiotics, even if the titles no longer carried the Rocky name.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2023

A degree in semiotics was not required to see that I was in the presence of an ironist.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann