Semiosis is a term originally used by Charles S. Peirce to denote any sign generation or sign process; in a more general sense, the activity of the sign. Signs are generally considered to be tools used by humans and animals. In themselves, they are inert and...
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The Semiotic/the Symbolic
Semiotic is a term used by Julia Kristeva to denote rhythms and energies ("pulsations") that precede and transcend the symbolic order; Symbolic, in turn, is a term used again by her to denote the social order in which all human beings are involved as conditions for...
Semiotic web
The semiotic network is a metaphor used by Thomas A. Sebeok to describe the human experience. Experience is a web woven of signs and used to capture many objects in our Umwelt (environment) for the purposes of our survival and prosperity.
Semiotics
Semiotics is the study or doctrine of signs, sometimes presented as the science of signs; the systematic study of the nature, essence, and types of signs, especially undertaken in one's own conscious way. The study of signs has a long, rich and interesting history. As...
Sender
A sender is someone who sends or transmits a message. The word is synonymous with addressee, which is also the name of one of the six main features of any communication.
Sign
A sign is a term traditionally defined as aliquid stat pro aliquo (something that represents something else). The term itself, separated from any specific meaning, is commonly used by semioticians as an all-encompassing and all-encompassing term. Symbols, iconic...
Sign Function
Sign Function is a term sometimes used as a general equivalent of a sign. The reason for preferring the term sign function over sign is that the term sign function suggests something dynamic and (according to Umberto Eco) mobile. Everything that acts as a sign or is...
Sign Vehicle
Sign vehicle is a component of the sign, through which the sign function is completed or at least its creation is started. As in general it is considered that signs convey messages, that component of them that is most directly responsible for the message transmission...
Signal
A signal is a specific type of sign that is usually characterized as requiring an immediate response. In this sense, the stop sign at the end of a motorway exit may more correctly be called a stop signal (i.e., road signs are rather road signals). The function of the...
Signans/signatum
Signans is a Latin term most often translated as signifier; Signatum is also a Latin term but translates as signified. Related: Signum
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Fetish, Fetishizing
The most common understanding of the word Fetish is related to people's sexual desires and peculiarities. This meaning we owe to nonother but Sigmund Freud. While studying human sexuality, Freud found out that there are people that can only be aroused by specific...
Sign System
Sign system is a key concept in semiotics. It is used to refer to any system of signs and relations between signs. For example, the term language is frequently used as a synonym of a sign system. But, as the term language carries certain connotations of human...
Abduction
A term used by Charles Peirce to denote the process of inquiry in which a hypothesis is formed or generated; The result of such a process - the conclusion reached or the assumed guess, respectively, is called retroduction and hypothesis. The word "abduction" has more...
Abject
A term used by Julia Kristeva to mean something that confuses violates or undermines some established order or stable position. It has this effect because it is in the middle of what we normally consider to be absolute oppositions (eg life/death, human/machine). Many...
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