Other Words from semiotics

semiotic adjective

semiotician \ ˌsē-mē-ə-ˈti-shən

, ˌse-mē- , ˌsē-ˌmī- \ noun

semioticist \ ˌsē-mē-ˈä-tə-sist

, ˌse-mē- , ˌsē-ˌmī- \ noun

Examples of semiotics in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Some of the discourse focussed on the semiotics of a slap versus a punch. — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2022 Laruccia continued to explore his passion for learning by moving back east to teach semiotics and film at Brown University in Rhode Island. — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2022 My master’s degree is in semiotics — the science of signs. — Randy Shattuck, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022 The scene immediately brings to mind AOC’s similar semiotics-savvy dissection of her opponent’s campaign pamphlet in House. — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2022 This was distinctly worrisome to anyone steeped in the semiotics of Hollywood. — Roger R. Smith, The New York Review of Books, 22 July 2021 This was distinctly worrisome to anyone steeped in the semiotics of Hollywood. — Roger R. Smith, The New York Review of Books, 22 July 2021 Underneath the apparent respectability of his paintings, so smooth in their rendering of elegant references to semiotics and psychology, is a bad child, uncatchable and still uncaught, writhing with glee in the surplus fat of the twentieth century. — Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 24 Nov. 2021 This was distinctly worrisome to anyone steeped in the semiotics of Hollywood. — Roger R. Smith, The New York Review of Books, 22 July 2021 See More

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