SEMIOTICS
Defination
Semiotics also known as semiology a general theory of signs and symbols; the analysis of the nature and relationships of signs in language. The field was most notably formalized by the Vienna Circle and presented in their International Encyclopedia of Unified Science, in which the authors agreed on breaking out the field, which they called "semiotic", into three branches:
- Semantics: Relation between signs and the things they refer to, their denotata
- Syntactics: Relation of signs to each other in formal structures
- Pragmatics: Relation of signs to their impacts on those who use them. (Also known as General Semantics)
History
The importance of signs and signification has been recognized throughout much of the history of philosophy, and in psychology as well. Plato and Aristotle both explored the relationship between signs and the world, and Augustine considered the nature of the sign within a conventional system. These theories have had a lasting effect in Western philosophy, especially through Scholastic philosophy. More recently, Umberto Eco, in his Semiotics and philosophy of language, has argued that semiotic theories are implicit in the work of most, perhaps all, major thinkers.
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