This article is about semiotics—the study of meaningful signs. Top-down semiotics or big semiotics as I characterize it here is a stage or phase of semiotic analysis in which signs are interrogated in ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The article investigates in the first part critically dyadic and essentialist understanding of signs and utterances in mathematics and ...

The semiotic perspective may help us understand how natural language, mathematics, and visual representations form a single unified system for meaning-making. Since there are different semiotics ...

Semiotic expertise cannot unambiguously determine the meaning of a sign; it can only clarify the conditions under which one or the other meaning is more likely, the Tartu University semioticians ...

Semiotics, the study of signs and meaning-making processes, has long provided a framework for understanding linguistic, cultural, and cognitive phenomena. In recent decades, its extension into ...

Everyday life is an exercise in semiotics. This makes it easier, and yet infinitely more difficult. Semiotics is a branch of knowledge that works with the study of signs. In semiotics, everything is a ...

It was 2005 when I got married and relocated to the USA. One day, when I stepped out for a haircut, something strange happened. I had just settled into the chair when the hairdresser stopped in the ...

I recently read a very interesting book by Dr. C. P. (Chuck) Rosenthal called How the Animals Around You Think: The Semiotics of Animal Cognition. He is a professor of narrative writing and theory at ...