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单词 semiotics
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Definition of semiotics in English:

semiotics

(also semeiotics)
plural noun ˌsɛmɪˈɒtɪksˌsiːmɪˈɒtɪksˌsɛmiˈɑdɪks
  • treated as singular The study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The act of signifying is signification, a term that is often used synonymously with ‘meaning’ and ‘sense’, and occurs in the discussions of students of semantics and semiotics.
    • It is hardly surprising then that so many of them should be fascinated by semiotics - the signs and symbols by which we order our lives.
    • In common with socio-linguistics, social semiotics assumes that language varies with social context, and also assumes that the reader of any narrative system plays an active part in its interpretation.
    • She combines the methods of history, semantics, and semiotics to show how and why the formulae were first adopted in organic chemistry.
    • Structuralism, semiotics, and later, psychoanalysis were all ransacked for help in understanding how a film achieved its effects.
    • Endless books on the cinema - whether they propounded auteur theory or semiotics or cultural studies - forsook the intelligent general reader for arcane interpretation.
    • Issues of race, gender, freedom, desire, language, mythology, sexuality, semiotics, signs, slavery, psychology, and power persisted in his fictions.
    • Tartu University is known for work in linguistics and semiotics.
    • This notion is in keeping with research in semiotics which demonstrates how signs, such as words, pictures, gestures, and so forth, make meaning.
    • Those finding the answer in rhetoric (sound as oratorical figures) or semiotics (sound as signs) will alike pick on the more graphic elements in his music.
    • I have always been concerned with semiotics - the study of signs and symbols as communication - and how so many persons fail to see how misleading certain subtle methods can be in deceiving them.
    • Art historical practices driven by developments in literary criticism, semiotics, studies of gender, and ethnicity, to name but a few areas of concern, are moves in this direction.
    • Studies in film semiotics will have us know that film itself functions as a cultural language, one that provides a distinct visual vocabulary upon which viewers will call to make sense of the fragmented culture in which they live.
    • Anyway, in semiotics a sign is an abstract unit of social meaning.
    • Language-based approaches, such as semiotics, structuralism, and post-structuralism, are not vision-based.
    • Structuralism and semiotics thought more about the technicalities of linguistic and literary forms.
    • Post-structuralism is just classical sceptical thought re-cast in the language of semiotics, Ursula.
    • The distinctions between these two domains are frequently contested and debated in the realms of semiotics, structuralism, poetics, and aesthetics.
    • The successors to Frazerism and ritualism have been principally two: structuralism and semiotics.
    • Not all of which moves towards discursive literacy, nor is it meant to be captured solely by semiotics of language and linguistic systems.

Derivatives

  • semiotic

  • adjective ˌsiːmɪˈɒtɪkˌsɛmɪˈɒtɪkˌsɛmiˈɑdɪk
    • Then the sentences will reveal their strange contribution, like the most original of exchanges: exchanges from within the first landscape of the semiotic world.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Such semantic-functional categories can in principle be used across different semiotic modes in a way that formal linguistic categories cannot.
      • Literature is seen as a particularly rich semiotic field with such sub-disciplines as literary and narrative semiotics.
      • He says ‘not semiotically formed’ because he identifies the semiotic function with the linguistic one.
      • In a conscious attempt to exploit architecture's semiotic potential, the architects have made use of new technology.
  • semiotical

  • adjective ˌsiːmiˈɒtɪk(ə)lˌsɛmiˈɒtɪk(ə)l
  • semiotically

  • adverbˌsiːmiˈɒtɪkliˌsɛmiˈɒtɪkli
    • Clothing has always been politically significant, creating a visual representation of a person's relationship to the state, and Fashion has always semiotically challenged, reinforced, and/or reconfigured meanings of citizenship.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • What is striking about David's interest in Fenelon and the episode he invented to convey the moral lessons of the story is the very flexible, open-ended way that his image unfolds semiotically.
      • The transcendental unity of the semiotically self-sufficient text and undifferentiated spectator dissolved into a complex series of critical and discursive relations.
      • Every vinyl or CD record is a semiotically complex textual unit.
      • Each is semiotically rich and clearly implicated in the paradigmatic modern ideal of making the world smaller through transportation and communication.
  • semiotician

  • nounˌsiːmɪəˈtɪʃ(ə)n
    • For the semioticians, there are layers of double meaning that can be read into the errors.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • As musical semioticians would be first to point out, music is nothing if not a field rich in signifiers.
      • In a sense, we are border semioticians and vernacular linguists.
      • You can live in Scarsdale or in an ashram; you can be a court-of-appeals judge or a retro housewife, semiotician or banker, dermatologist or poet, lesbian or born-again, and you are still just one of us.
      • Even solipsists look both ways before crossing a street and postmodernists, I suspect, submit their appendicitis to a surgeon, not a semiotician.

Origin

Late 19th century: from Greek sēmeiotikos 'of signs', from sēmeioun 'interpret as a sign'.

 
 

Definition of semiotics in US English:

semiotics

(also semeiotics)
plural nounˌsɛmiˈɑdɪksˌsemēˈädiks
  • treated as singular The study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Not all of which moves towards discursive literacy, nor is it meant to be captured solely by semiotics of language and linguistic systems.
    • Structuralism and semiotics thought more about the technicalities of linguistic and literary forms.
    • I have always been concerned with semiotics - the study of signs and symbols as communication - and how so many persons fail to see how misleading certain subtle methods can be in deceiving them.
    • Structuralism, semiotics, and later, psychoanalysis were all ransacked for help in understanding how a film achieved its effects.
    • Studies in film semiotics will have us know that film itself functions as a cultural language, one that provides a distinct visual vocabulary upon which viewers will call to make sense of the fragmented culture in which they live.
    • Issues of race, gender, freedom, desire, language, mythology, sexuality, semiotics, signs, slavery, psychology, and power persisted in his fictions.
    • Tartu University is known for work in linguistics and semiotics.
    • This notion is in keeping with research in semiotics which demonstrates how signs, such as words, pictures, gestures, and so forth, make meaning.
    • Language-based approaches, such as semiotics, structuralism, and post-structuralism, are not vision-based.
    • Art historical practices driven by developments in literary criticism, semiotics, studies of gender, and ethnicity, to name but a few areas of concern, are moves in this direction.
    • The act of signifying is signification, a term that is often used synonymously with ‘meaning’ and ‘sense’, and occurs in the discussions of students of semantics and semiotics.
    • Anyway, in semiotics a sign is an abstract unit of social meaning.
    • Endless books on the cinema - whether they propounded auteur theory or semiotics or cultural studies - forsook the intelligent general reader for arcane interpretation.
    • The distinctions between these two domains are frequently contested and debated in the realms of semiotics, structuralism, poetics, and aesthetics.
    • Post-structuralism is just classical sceptical thought re-cast in the language of semiotics, Ursula.
    • The successors to Frazerism and ritualism have been principally two: structuralism and semiotics.
    • In common with socio-linguistics, social semiotics assumes that language varies with social context, and also assumes that the reader of any narrative system plays an active part in its interpretation.
    • It is hardly surprising then that so many of them should be fascinated by semiotics - the signs and symbols by which we order our lives.
    • She combines the methods of history, semantics, and semiotics to show how and why the formulae were first adopted in organic chemistry.
    • Those finding the answer in rhetoric (sound as oratorical figures) or semiotics (sound as signs) will alike pick on the more graphic elements in his music.

Origin

Late 19th century: from Greek sēmeiotikos ‘of signs’, from sēmeioun ‘interpret as a sign’.

 
 
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