WHAT IS SEMIOTICS

Semiotics, semiotic studies, or semiology is the study of sign processes (semiosis), or signification and communication, signs and symbols, both individually and grouped into sign systems. It includes the study of how meaning is constructed and understood.

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I've read a few of my classmates' blogs and i found that all of them have tried very hard to explain semiotics. Now i shall try my very best, in point form.

• Semiotics is the study of signs, combination of signs, how the signs are used, and the meanings attached to them.
  
  

• Signs can be - Literal
  - Symbolic
  - Metaphoric
  
  
• In semiotics, signs can be anything. Gestures, words, items, nature, senses. Anything.
  
  
• Sometimes in semiotics, the meanings behind certain signs only work within a certain society or group, because they, as a group should agree on its simplified meaning (denotative definition).
  
  
• Signs do not always work universally, because in its form of communication, the sign would most probably have to be recognized, acknowledged and decoded by the recipient.
  
  
• In Metaphors, semiotics is exercised by comparing two different objects / situations and recognizing a particular characteristics that is similar.
  
  
• Unlike similes which uses 'like' or 'as' in their comparisons, metaphors state that a this thing IS something else.

Ultimately, SEMIOTICS is the study of signs in communication to express a specific term, statements or ideas.