semiology n (philosophy) a philosophical theory of the functions of signs and symbols Usage(s) One would like to drag semiology in here too, for the Slickers never saw a text they couldn't subvert. Synonym(s) semiotics
Quotes semiology Colin MacCabe in San Francisco Chronicle The artist came of age in an era in which, as MacCabe writes, "a variety of attempts . . . to produce a semiology of the cinema" were under way.