Semanteme is synonymous with sememe, which denotes a unit, a linguistic element that expresses a concept and in turn enters into combinations with other similar elements.
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Semantic
Semantic refers to the meaning or to the process of signification. In particular, it deals with the relationship between signs and their objects. Related: Sign Object Semantics
Semantics
Semantics is the study of the meaning of signs. According to Charles Morris, this branch of semiotics is devoted to the study of the relationship between signs and their objects, or in a more technical sense, between sign vehicles and their signifiers (things denoted...
Sematology
Sematology is one of the many names we call the general study of signs. That is, synonymous with semiotics.
Seme, sememe
Seme, sememe is a meaningful unit, or more specifically, the smallest meaningful unit. In structural linguistics, seeds are explained in terms of analogies with phonemes. This means that they are units defined in a system of relations, namely the oppositions. The...
Semeion(pl. Semeia)
Semeion is a Greek word for sign. Long ago (starting with Hippocrates and Parmenides in the 5th century BC) semeion was used as a synonym for tekmerion (clue, proof, symptom). In the writings of some ancient Greek authors (for example, in many of Aristotle's texts),...
Semeiotic
Semeiotic is a term meaning the way Charles S. Peirce often pronounced the word meaning the general science of signs. Therefore, it is synonymous with the more commonly used and more widely accepted semiotics. Sometimes the semeiotic is used to separate Peirce's or...
Semeiotikos
Semeiotikos is a Greek word for a person who interprets or separates the meaning of signs. For the classical Greek philosophers, the paradigm of semiotics was created by physicists (themselves - a shining example of semeiotikos). Galen Pergamum (139-199), a famous...
Semiogenesis
Semiogenesis is the genesis or evolution of signs and their use as part of the development of certain animal waters; in a narrower sense - the evolution of non-linguistic signs in Homo sapiens. In this narrower understanding, semiogenesis is seen as a process that...
Semiology
Semiology is the name for the general theory of signs; semiologie is the term adopted by Ferdinand de Saussure to denote the science of signs in general. Related: Semiotics
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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.
