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单词 semiotics
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semiotics
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In philosophy and linguistics, semiotics is the branch of study concerned with the meanings and functions of signs and symbols.
Have you ever thought about traffic lights? How did we decide red means "stop," green means "go," and yellow means "slow down" (even if most people speed up)? Traffic lights are symbolic, and the study of symbols is semiotics. Just don't get absorbed with semiotics when there are cars behind you at a traffic light!
WORD FAMILY
semiotics: semiotician+/semiotic: semiotical, semiotics/semiotician: semioticians
USAGE EXAMPLES
And until the semiotics are confronted head on, poverty will perpetuate.
Time(Dec 01, 2016)
I am a pathologist nauseated by the cavalier use of illness semiotics to describe Trumpism’s encroachment into the body politic.
Washington Post(Oct 13, 2016)
As a fledgling visual artist, this was my first lesson in semiotics.
The Guardian(Sep 22, 2016)
n (philosophy) a philosophical theory of the functions of signs and symbols
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semiology
philosophical doctrine, philosophical theory
a doctrine accepted by adherents to a philosophy
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