Biosemiotics (which differs from biosmeiosis) is the study of the sign process in the biosphere or the world of living organisms. It includes anthroposemiotics, zoosemiotics, and, according to some semioticians, phytosemiotics. Related: Biosemiosis
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Bit
A bit is a technical term from information theory, meaning the elementary unit for information measurement, how many elementary signals from a binary code are needed to translate an elementary unit from a complex code (for example, the English alphabet). The English...
Bliss(jouissance), texts of
The bliss of text is a type of text identified by Roland Barthes as opposed to the text of pleasure (plaisir). The text of pleasure is the one that "contains, causes euphoria, the text that comes from culture and does not interfere with it, is associated with the...
Bricolage
Bricolage is a term coined by Claude Lévi-Strauss (p. 1908) to denote the way in which the so-called savage or primitive mind orients itself in the world, especially to natural objects and events, on the one hand, and to social beings. and their relationship, on the...
Bricoleur
Bricoleur fr. the thinking, the able. The anthropologist, and structuralist Claude Lévi-Strauss built his significant and influential concept of bricolage from the characteristic manner in which the artist works. This manner includes, above all, a superficial...
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Intersemiotic
Intersemiotic is what happens between two different sign systems. By comparison, intrasemiotics occur within the same sign system.
Signum ad placitum
Signum ad placitum is Latin for conventional signs. Related: Signum
Syntagmatic vs. Paradigmatic
For more information on the opposition syntagmatic vs. paradigmatic, please check associative, and axis. Related: Syntagm
Interpretation
The process of understanding and interpreting a message. Related: Interpretant Interpreter
Unconscious
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is easily one of the most influential people of the XX century. Although lots of his ideas have been denied in the years after his death, as being pseudo-scientific, Freud has surely shaped the way, we people think of ourselves. One of his...
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A completely and truly free course on Semiology (Semiotics). Learn about the meaning of signs, how and why did the field emerged. What is the relationship between the street signs and the signs that we use every day - words.
