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单词 semiology
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Definition of semiology in English:

semiology

noun ˌsɛmɪˈɒlədʒiˌsiːmɪˈɒlədʒi
mass noun
  • another term for semiotics
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I propose to write an essay that examines the application of three strains of French social thought - structural Marxism, semiology, and postmodernism - to analyzing the mass media.
    • He helped found the modern science of semiology, applying structuralism to the ‘myths’ he saw all around him: media, fashion, art, photography, architecture, and especially literature.
    • Thus if semiology comes from linguistics, things become relatively simple.
    • Interpreting images is a domain of semiology, the general science of signs.
    • Deciding what I should say in my last 500 words ever in this space proved to be more daunting than writing a 10-page English paper on semiology.

Derivatives

  • semiological

  • adjectiveˌsiːmɪɒləˈlɒdʒɪk(ə)lˌsɛmɪɒləˈlɒdʒɪk(ə)l
    • Myth is a peculiar system, in that it is constructed from a semiological chain which existed before it: it is a second-order semiological system.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • That's not so much reindividuation as merging - a form of semiological persona voodoo?
      • This shift suggests a kind of semiological skinning of photography where the signifier is separated from the signified to be reconstituted as a sign itself.
      • And when you do this, you create a semiological system which runs parallel to other semiological systems, one of which might be the system of so-called reality.
      • The religious experience and historical activity of Muhammad emerges and unfurls precisely in this semiological universe we no longer understand.
  • semiologist

  • noun sɛmɪˈɒlədʒɪstsiːmɪˈɒlədʒɪst
    • This is a social history rather than a semiologist's treatise or an academic's polemic.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But it is true that while semiologists talk about the eruption of ‘the real’, on a daily basis they tend to be preoccupied with life as dominated by the prevailing signifying practices of a culture.
      • In chapter two, which discusses the tensions between system and act in structural and poststructural linguistics, the author persuasively argues that music, as the semiologist's blind spot, reveals the truth about language.
      • If we get sidetracked on to the British issue the left-liberal semiologists and their friends in the media will have a high old time of it.
      • No prior knowledge of literary criticism is required: you are a semiologist, looking for the cultural values that are affirmed or reaffirmed in the text.

Origin

1920s: from Greek sēmeion 'sign' (from sēma 'mark') + -logy.

 
 

Definition of semiology in US English:

semiology

noun
  • another term for semiotics
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Interpreting images is a domain of semiology, the general science of signs.
    • He helped found the modern science of semiology, applying structuralism to the ‘myths’ he saw all around him: media, fashion, art, photography, architecture, and especially literature.
    • Deciding what I should say in my last 500 words ever in this space proved to be more daunting than writing a 10-page English paper on semiology.
    • I propose to write an essay that examines the application of three strains of French social thought - structural Marxism, semiology, and postmodernism - to analyzing the mass media.
    • Thus if semiology comes from linguistics, things become relatively simple.

Origin

1920s: from Greek sēmeion ‘sign’ (from sēma ‘mark’) + -logy.

 
 
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