- "Semiotics (also called semiotic studies) is the systematic study of sign processes (semiosis) and meaning-making."
The study of semiotics, or the ways in which meaning is conveyed through signs, as well as the unique properties of sign languages.
Signs and Symbols: The study of signs and symbols as linguistic units that convey meaning.
Signifiers and Signified: The relationship between the physical form of signs and the mental concepts they represent.
Semiotic Systems: The interrelated signs and symbols within a particular cultural system.
Iconicity: The degree to which a sign resembles the object or concept it represents.
Indexicality: The relationship between a sign and the context in which it is used.
Language and Culture: The ways in which language reflects and shapes culture.
Syntax and Grammar: The rules that govern the arrangement of signs and symbols in a linguistic system.
Semiotics and Representation: The ways in which signs and symbols can be used to represent ideas and beliefs.
Semiotics and Power: The ways in which language can be used to exert power and exert social control.
Poststructuralism: The idea that meaning is constructed through the way in which signs and symbols are used within a particular discourse.
Deaf Culture: The unique cultural practices, beliefs, and values of the Deaf community.
American Sign Language (ASL): The linguistic system used by many Deaf people in the United States.
Phonology: The study of the sounds and structure of sign language.
Morphology: The rules that govern the formation of words in sign language.
Syntax: The arrangement of signs to form sentences in sign language.
Semantics: The meanings of signs and how they relate to each other within a linguistic system.
Pragmatics: The ways in which signs are used in context, including social conventions and the role of speaker and listener.
Bilingualism: The use of both sign language and spoken language in communication.
Deaf Education: The debate around the best ways to educate Deaf children, including the use of sign language in the classroom.
Sign Language Interpreting: The profession of interpreting between sign language and spoken language, including the skills and knowledge required.
Semantics: The study of meaning in language and how words convey meaning.
Syntactics: The study of sentence structure and how words are arranged in a sentence.
Pragmatics: The study of how context affects the interpretation of language.
Semiotics of culture: The study of signs and symbols in culture and how they are used to convey meaning.
American Sign Language (ASL): The most common form of sign language in the United States.
British Sign Language (BSL): The sign language used in the United Kingdom.
Auslan: The sign language used in Australia.
New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL): The sign language used in New Zealand.
French Sign Language (LSF): The sign language used in France.
Chinese Sign Language (CSL): The sign language used in China.
Japanese Sign Language (JSL): The sign language used in Japan.
Mexican Sign Language (LSM): The sign language used in Mexico.
Russian Sign Language (RSL): The sign language used in Russia.
Spanish Sign Language (LSE): The sign language used in Spain.
- "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."