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

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

From Salon • Jul. 18, 2023

“I don’t have anything to say. It’s the semiotics of theater without the content.”

From New York Times • Aug. 23, 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