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semiotics

[see-mee-ot-iks, sem-ee-, see-mahy-] / ˌsi miˈɒt ɪks, ˌsɛm i-, ˌsi maɪ- /
NOUN
study of signs as elements of communication
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The symbols themselves shift, even though the structure of the semiotics is always the same...

From Salon

I have no grand theory or profound observations about semiotics and music to explain why this is.

From Salon

I have no expertise in the semiotics of the slap, but I am reminded of what one of America's funniest novelists, Paul's Beatty, made of the gesture.

From Salon

Rather it was the idea of royalty, its most obvious semiotics and the way they have been appropriated and re-appropriated by subcultures, that made runway news.

From New York Times

If he weren’t an artist, though, he might be a linguist, a semiotics professor or a rapper.

From New York Times