What do words, visual ads, art performances, make-up, uniforms, and pictures have in common? They all are signs—"something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity," to use the words of Charles Sanders...

Semiotics is an ancient mode of enquiry which incorporates all forms and systems of communication as its domain. The development of semiotic theory and methods took place within specific fields, first in medicine, then in philosophy and, in the...

The theory of linguistic and non-linguistic signs and signing processes to which the study of natural languages, as the most comprehensive system, is central. Besides language and communication theory, many humanistic disciplines are concerned with...

. Literally, ‘theory of signs’. A generic term covering three important species. In each case philosophers study the notions in general and from an abstract point of view, while linguists study their application to particular languages and...

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KRISTEVA, DON GIOVANNI, AND FEMINIST REVOLT One listens to it: Mozart, Schoenberg. One gives it shape: Don Juan, the ideal . . . hero, seductive because he is the master who defies fathers and the connoisseur of women never satisfied with one alone,...

THE COGNITIVE SEMIOTICS OF FILM Warren Buckland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000,174 pp. In The Cognitive Semiotics of Film, Warren Buckland discusses signification and meaning in film by taking up the timely debate between those who favor theoretical models rooted in linguistics...

On a not-so-long ago Thursday night, about a third of the way into the taping of Michael Showalter’s debut comedy album at Union Hall in Park Slope, the 37-year-old comedian-writer-director noticed a strange sound coming from the first row. Meowing. Mewing, to be precise,...

The Sundance Film Festival is its own little world, set in the otherworldy state of Utah. Smack in the what-surely-must-be-quaint-when-not-overrun-by-wankers town of Park City, nestled between spectacular, somewhat sci-fi-looking snow-covered mountains, it’s a universe where the inhabitants wear puffed-up coats (think duvets with sleeves), big...

Essay provides a semiological analysis on the subject of advertisements.

Semiotic analysis of clothes and shoes and what they mean to me.