semiotics

IPA: sɛmiˈɑtɪks

The study of signs and symbols, especially as means of language or communication.
(dated) The study of medical signs and symptoms; symptomatology.

Examples of "semiotics" in Sentences

The paper or presentation refers to "semiotics" at least three times.
Can anyone help me understand "semiotics", types of signs, I don't get it?
Good oration, but I really really hope you mean "semiotics" there at the end.
Ecosemiotics can be defined as the semiotics of relationships between nature and culture.
Recommended if … you majored in semiotics at Brown or Finnegans Wake is your favorite book.
The study discusses areas such as semiotics, emotional design, technology, 1 introduction consumer behavior and marketing.
"semiotics": how we use symbols to communicate, how these symbols gain meaning, and how we use symbols differently than any other creature.
Clearly, naming things is one of the major themes of the book, and the nature of signs (as in semiotics as well as the paranoid mediaeval style), is what Eco is really interested in, hence the title and the latin riddle that finishes the novel: Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus.
How to represent a concept like a Service with a symbol that provides meaning and is useful to its users falls under the topic of semiotics, which is the study of how symbols come to have meaning (semantics), how those symbols relate to one another (syntax), and how people do useful things with their symbols (pragmatics).