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Semiotics for Beginners: Introduction - 0 views

  • Semiotics could be anywhere. The shortest definition is that it is the study of signs.
  • The kinds of signs that are likely to spring immediately to mind are those which we routinely refer to as 'signs' in everyday life, such as road signs, pub signs and star signs.
  • it also includes words, sounds and 'body language'
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  • You would confirm their hunch if you said that signs can also be drawings, paintings and photographs,
  • f a science which studies the role of signs as part of social life.
  • It would investigate the nature of signs and the laws governing them.
  • It is difficult to disentangle European semiotics from structuralism in its origins
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