- "Semiotics (also called semiotic studies) is the systematic study of sign processes (semiosis) and meaning-making."
The study of how language conveys meaning, including semantics, pragmatics, and syntax.
Syntax: The study of rules governing the structure of sentences in a language.
Semantics: The study of meaning in language, including how it is constructed and conveyed.
Pragmatics: The study of how context and social factors affect the interpretation of language.
Phonetics: The study of the production and perception of speech sounds.
Phonology: The study of the sound systems of languages and how they are used to convey meaning.
Morphology: The study of the building blocks of words, including roots, prefixes, and suffixes.
Discourse Analysis: The study of larger units of language such as conversations, stories, and texts.
Sociolinguistics: The study of the relationship between language and society, including language variation and dialects.
Psycholinguistics: The study of how language is processed and acquired by the human brain.
Neurolinguistics: The study of the neural mechanisms involved in language processing and production.
Computational Linguistics: The field of study in which computers process language data and develop algorithms to understand and generate language.
Discourse Markers: Words or phrases that signal the structure and coherence of discourse.
Metaphor: The study of how language is used metaphorically to express abstract concepts.
Idioms: An expression whose meaning cannot be derived from the literal meaning of the words themselves.
Speech Acts: The study of how language is used to perform particular actions, such as requests and promises.
Spoken language: Language that is spoken, as opposed to written or signed language.
Written language: Language that is written or printed rather than spoken.
Signed language: Language that is communicated through signed gestures, such as American Sign Language.
Formal language: Language that conforms to traditional rules of grammar, usage, and syntax, often used in academic writing and legal documents.
Informal language: Language that is casual, conversational, and relaxed, often used in everyday speech and social interactions.
Technical language: Language that is specific to a particular field, such as science, medicine, or engineering.
Slang: Language that is informal and often unconventional, often used by a specific group of people and constantly changing.
Jargon: Language that is specific to a particular profession, group, or activity, often consisting of technical terms and abbreviations.
Regional language: Language that is specific to a particular geographic region, often characterised by unique dialects and idioms.
International language: Language that is used to facilitate communication between speakers of different languages, such as English, French, or Spanish.
Body language: Nonverbal communication through body movements, facial expressions, and gestures.
Tone and intonation: The pitch, stress, and melody of a person’s voice that help convey meaning and emotion.
Contextual language: Language that relies on context and situational cues to convey meaning, such as sarcasm or irony.
Emotional language: Language that expresses or elicits strong emotions, such as love, anger, or sadness.
Visual language: Language that uses images, symbols, and other visual cues to convey meaning, such as emojis or traffic signs.
- "Semiosis is any activity, conduct, or process that involves signs, where a sign is defined as anything that communicates something, usually called a meaning, to the sign's interpreter."
- "Signs can also communicate feelings (which are usually not considered meanings) and may communicate internally (through thought itself) or through any of the senses: visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, or gustatory (taste)."
- "Contemporary semiotics is a branch of science that studies meaning-making and various types of knowledge."
- "Unlike linguistics, semiotics also studies non-linguistic sign systems."
- "Semiotics includes the study of signs and sign processes, indication, designation, likeness, analogy, allegory, metonymy, metaphor, symbolism, signification, and communication."
- "Some semioticians focus on the logical dimensions of the science, while others explore the study of signs and symbols as a significant part of communications."
- "The Italian semiotician and novelist Umberto Eco proposed that every cultural phenomenon may be studied as communication."
- "They examine areas also belonging to the life sciences—such as how organisms make predictions about, and adapt to, their semiotic niche in the world."
- "Fundamental semiotic theories take signs or sign systems as their object of study."
- "Applied semiotics analyzes cultures and cultural artifacts according to the ways they construct meaning through their being signs."
- "The communication of information in living organisms is covered in biosemiotics (including zoosemiotics and phytosemiotics)."
- "Semiotics is not to be confused with the Saussurean tradition called semiology, which is a subset of semiotics."