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Signs
Daniel Chandler Signs We seem as a species to be driven by a desire to make meanings : above all, we are surely - meaning-makers. Distinctively, we make meanings through our creation and interpretation of 'signs'. Indeed, according to Peirce, 'we think only in signs' (Peirce 1931-58, 2.302) . Signs take the form of words, images , sounds, odours, flavours, acts or objects, but such things have no intrinsic meaning and become signs only when we invest them with meaning.
Semiotics , also called semiotic studies and including (in the Saussurean tradition) semiology , is the study of signs and sign processes ( semiosis ), indication, designation, likeness, analogy , metaphor , symbolism , signification, and communication. Semiotics is closely related to the field of linguistics , which, for its part, studies the structure and meaning of language more specifically.
Semiotics
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to semiotics: Semiotics – study of signs and sign processes (semiosis), indication, designation, likeness, analogy, metaphor, symbolism, signification, and communication. Semiotics is closely related to the field of linguistics, which, for its part, studies the structure and meaning of language more specifically.
