Explore: Semiotic Theory

ecological niche. Fundamental semiotic theories take signs or sign systems as their object of study. Applied semiotics analyzes cultures and cultural artifacts

Charles Sanders Peirce began writing on semiotics, which he also called semeiotics, meaning the philosophical study of signs, in the 1860s, around the

Sanders Peirce as having created a theory of information in his works on semiotics. Nauta defined semiotic information theory as the study of "the internal

Semiotic literary criticism, also called literary semiotics, is the approach to literary criticism informed by the theory of signs or semiotics. Semiotics

Computational semiotics is an interdisciplinary field that applies, conducts, and draws on research in logic, mathematics, the theory and practice of

essentially arbitrary (the principle of semiotic arbitrariness), motivated only by social convention. Saussure's theory has been particularly influential in

In semiotics, the value of a sign depends on its position and relations in the system of signification and upon the particular codes being used. Value

Action-oriented sets of beliefs The confusion of linguistic and phenomenal reality Semiotic closure The indispensable medium in which individuals live out their relations

capabilities of their sensory organs and perceptual systems. In the semiotic theories of Jakob von Uexküll and Thomas Sebeok, it is considered to be the

only a partial explanation of the triadic in Charles Sanders Peirce's semiotic theory: a sign (a reference to an object), an object (the thing being referred