Key concept in semiotics used to refer to any system of signs and relations between signs
Semiotics
General concepts
Sign
relation
relational complex
Code
Confabulation
Connotation / Denotation
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Lexical
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Representation
Salience
Semiosis
Semiosphere
Semiotic theory of Peirce
Umwelt
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Fields
Biosemiotics
Cognitive semiotics
Computational semiotics
Literary semiotics
Semiotics of culture
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Methods
Commutation test
Paradigmatic analysis
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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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A sign system is a key concept in semiotics and is used to refer to any system of signs and relations between signs.[1] The term language is frequently used as a synonym for a sign-system. However, the term sign-system is considered preferable[by whom?] to the term language for a number of reasons. First, the use of the term language tends to carry with it connotations of human language, particularly human spoken language. Human spoken language is only one example of a sign-system, albeit probably one of the most complex sign-systems known. In traditional forms of face-to-face communication, humans communicate through non-verbal as well as verbal sign-systems; colloquially, this can be referred to as body language. Hence, humans communicate a great deal by way of facial movements and other forms of bodily expression. Such expressions are also signs and an organised collection of such signs would be considered a sign system.
Tone of voice in spoken communication, conveys meaning. Depending on tone, a phrase can have several meanings; e.g. "you like that" can mean the speaker believes the listener likes something, or it can be a question, or it can convey disbelief.
Traffic signs, art, and fashion are all examples of sign systems.
Second, the same concept of a sign-system can be used in considering a vast range of communication forms such as animal communication, man-machine communication, machine to machine communication, and disease symptoms. Examination of simpler forms of such systems of signs within non-human communication can help to illuminate some of the essence of communication and in particular can help to provide tentative answers to the question of the nature and function of communication.
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their phones or, for sign languages, their constituent parts of signs. The term can also refer specifically to the sound or signsystem of a particular language...
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station's identity. The use of call signs as unique identifiers dates to the landline railroad telegraph system. Because there was only one telegraph...
and formerly astronomy, the time of each sign is associated with different attributes. Though the zodiacal system and its angular measurement in 360 sexagesimal...
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Italian signsystem, hence both follow the same convention on road sign design set out by the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals. Road signs in Andorra...
gestural system for international communication at sporting or cultural events since the early 19th century. The need to standardise an international sign system...
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