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Semiotics
General concepts
Sign
relation
relational complex
Code
Confabulation
Connotation / Denotation
Encoding / Decoding
Lexical
Modality
Representation
Salience
Semiosis
Semiosphere
Semiotic theory of Peirce
Umwelt
Value
Fields
Biosemiotics
Cognitive semiotics
Computational semiotics
Literary semiotics
Semiotics of culture
Social semiotics
Methods
Commutation test
Paradigmatic analysis
Syntagmatic analysis
Semioticians
Mikhail Bakhtin
Roland Barthes
Marcel Danesi
John Deely
Umberto Eco
Paolo Fabbri
Gottlob Frege
Algirdas Julien Greimas
Félix Guattari
Stuart Hall
Louis Hjelmslev
Vyacheslav Ivanov
Roman Jakobson
Roberta Kevelson
Kalevi Kull
Juri Lotman
Charles W. Morris
Charles S. Peirce
Susan Petrilli
John Poinsot
Augusto Ponzio
Ferdinand de Saussure
Thomas Sebeok
Michael Silverstein
Eero Tarasti
Vladimir Toporov
Jakob von Uexküll
Victoria, Lady Welby
Related topics
Copenhagen–Tartu school
Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School
Structuralism
Post-structuralism
Deconstruction
Postmodernism
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Semiotics of culture is a research field within semiotics that attempts to define culture from semiotic perspective and as a type of human symbolic activity, creation of signs and a way of giving meaning to everything around. Therefore, here culture is understood as a system of symbols or meaningful signs. Because the main sign system is the linguistic system, the field is usually referred to as semiotics of culture and language. Under this field of study symbols are analyzed and categorized in certain class within the hierarchal system. With postmodernity, metanarratives are no longer as pervasive and thus categorizing these symbols in this postmodern age is more difficult and rather critical.
The research field was of particular interest for the Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School (USSR). Linguists and semioticians by the Tartu School viewed culture as a hierarchical semiotic system consisting of a set of functions correlated to it, and linguistic codes that are used by social groups to maintain coherence. These codes are viewed as superstructures based on natural language, and here the ability of humans to symbolize is central.
The study received a research ground also in Japan where the idea that culture and nature should not be contrasted and contradicted but rather harmonized was developed.
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