semiotics

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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

So that’s one way to talk about it, is just semiotics.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2022

Saussure held that there were structural laws that define how linguistic signification operated; the semiotics of Saussure and Pierce were the means of discovering these laws.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

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

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann