The origin of the word "Semiotics", naturally comes from ancient Greece. The word 'semeion' stands for a mark or a sign. The first usage of the word semeion has more of a medical meaning. It was written like 'semeiotike', which, as far as we know, stood for...
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1. The essence of semiotics
In Chapter 1, we will cover the following topics:
1. 2. Semiotics – Science or Method?
With the fast growth of semiotics and the expansion of the scope of its research, some semioticians are worried that it will become impossible for anyone to define the borders of this new science. What is really worrying is that the scope of interest of semiotic...
1. 3. Semiotics or Semiology?
There is a kind of competition between the terms Semiotics and Semiology. The term Semiology (semiologie) is used mainly from the French semiotic schools of thought in an attempt to protect the traditions of the Saussurian terminology. Saussure chose to call it...
1. 4. General and Applied Semiotics
Semiotics is sometimes provisionally divided to general semiotics and applied semiotics. Some authors use the terms "general" and "special" semiotics. 1.4.1 General Semiotics General semiotics is the broad, theoretical study of signs and sign systems. It...
1. 5. Parts of semiotics
The highest merits for the popularization of the Piercan "science of signs" and its further development is owed to the American scientist Charles Morris. He is the one to change the Piercian term semeiotics with contemporary semiotics. He is the one to invent the...
