semiotics
His research project is about semiotic theory and semantic web technologies.
Much semiotic narrative analysis foregrounds one strand of a complex whole.
How can communities be supported in retaining and developing their semiotic resources?

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Representation in art & in general
anti-realism
anti-realist
Calvary
complementary
confederate
limn
mimesis
naturalistically
non-figurative
non-representational
portray
portrayal
realism
realist
representation
symbolic
symbolism
symbolization
ultrarealism
volumetric

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Examples of semiotic

semiotic
Language use counts as semiotic activity when it serves to enact pragmatic effects, such as the marking of relationships and the inhabitance of identities.
They can use other semiotic strategies, such as to deconstruct, disfigure or disturb patriarchal conventions.
As it turns out, the temple looms large as a semiotic linchpin for the stage traffic.
The technique of reading is semiotic in character - based on the reading of musical codes which 'attach arbitrarily to the discourses that construct them' (9).
Simple words and expressions impose a structure on more complex semiotic phenomena by serving as descriptive labels for them.
Since that activity is inherently propositional, all psychic events have an intentional, or "semiotic," character.
The role of texts (in the widest semiotic sense), however, must not be underestimated: they do not only represent culture, they are themselves cultural elements.
Until now this symbolic or semiotic approach to the study of architecture has been dominant in anthropology.
Semiotic concepts offer an interesting approach to sound perception.
This sociality does not ignore the cognitive and semiotic processes involved in the production and reception of texts.
His work also serves as a critique of semiotic approaches to music, and questions the concept of representation.
The current emphasis of his research is on design text as a performative semiotic system.
Consequently, it did not attempt to embed its semiotic processes in the signs of the times, verbally or visually.
The majority of current functionalist theories fall into the first category, which treats language as a semiotic system linking formal to semantic and pragmatic elements.
Like other semiotic systems, urban sound functioned on different levels and not every hearer gleaned the same things.
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