- "Semiotics (also called semiotic studies) is the systematic study of sign processes (semiosis) and meaning-making."
Study of the nature of how we derive meaning from our experiences.
Intentionality: The ability of human consciousness to be directed towards objects or concepts beyond itself.
Existentialism: A philosophical approach that emphasizes individual existence, freedom, and choice.
Phenomenology of Perception: The study of how our perception of the world interacts with our consciousness.
The Self: The experience of being a self-aware and self-reflective entity.
Embodiment: The role of the body in consciousness and perception.
Time-consciousness: The experience of time and how it is related to human consciousness.
Language: The role of language and symbols in shaping our perception of reality.
Emotions: The role of emotions in shaping our meaning-making processes.
Intersubjectivity: The ways in which meaning-making is influenced by social and cultural contexts.
Authenticity: The process of discovering and living in accordance with one's own values and beliefs.
Transcendence: The ability for human consciousness to go beyond the limits of empirical experience.
Hermeneutics: The study of interpretation and understanding, particularly in relation to texts and human communication.
Experiences of awe and wonder: The ways in which certain experiences can create a sense of meaning and spiritual connection.
The role of tradition and ritual: How traditions and rituals can shape our perceptions of meaning and purpose.
Spiritual and religious experiences: The ways in which spiritual and religious experiences can provide a sense of meaning and purpose.
Intentional meaning: The way that we deliberately interpret and assign meaning to different experiences and phenomena.
Emotional meaning: The emotional associations and responses that we have to different experiences and phenomena.
Linguistic meaning: The meanings that we assign to words and language, and the ways in which we use language to convey meaning.
Symbolic meaning: The meanings that we assign to symbols and signs, and the ways in which they are used to represent other ideas or concepts.
Social meaning: The meaning that we derive from social interactions and relationships, and the ways in which social structures and norms shape our perceptions and interpretations.
Spiritual meaning: The meaning that we assign to experiences and phenomena in the context of religious or spiritual beliefs.
Historical meaning: The meanings that are associated with historical events, cultural artifacts, and other aspects of our shared history and cultural heritage.
- "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."