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The I find it interesting that the study of semiotics hasn't really found mainstream adoption. People seem content to content to study linguistics, semantics, pragmatics, and so forth. Semiotics goes beyond those to more closely examine how meaning is communicated. Everything from written and spoken language, to strictly visual communication, to the observation of natural behavior can be interpereted as meaning. It is this method for creating individual meaning that has profound implications for many schools of thought. Semiotics touches in the areas of psychology, semantics, pragmatics, philosophy, arts, media, and of course linguistics. I would even argue the semiotics could have a large impact on theology and religious studies.
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The I find it interesting that the study of semiotics hasn't really found mainstream adoption. People seem content to content to study linguistics, semantics, pragmatics, and so forth. Semiotics goes beyond those to more closely examine how meaning is communicated. Everything from written and spoken language, to strictly visual communication, to the observation of natural behavior can be interpereted as meaning. It is this method for creating individual meaning that has profound implications for many schools of thought. Semiotics touches in the areas of psychology, semantics, pragmatics, philosophy, arts, media, and of course linguistics. I would even argue the semiotics could have a large impact on theology and religious studies.
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A little more on Ferdinand de Saussure.
posted by Brian Huntley at 10:15 AM
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"People seem content to content to study linguistics, semantics, pragmatics, and so forth."
Maybe my interpretation of semiotics is just a bit wider of a cast net, but it seems to me, that all of these subjects, and even the ones you ention down further in your post are all within the grasp of semiotics. By finding meaning of symbols, or doing research in these areas, giving implications or questioning the authority of such paradigms, they are in turn further giving to the study of semiotics.
If semiotics is the study of signs and symbols, their social and cultural significance, how they are arrived at and how they opperate, is not the study in any one of these subjects a deconstructuralist view of research within semiotics? A more focused view within the greater? If not, then can the research that is done within these subjects lend it self to be a subject of such semiotical interpretation?
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