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• n  (philosophy) a philosophical theory of the functions of signs and symbols

• And inevitably the criticism arrived as well, dressed up in social science and scholarly glee at the semiotics of girls kneeling beneath raised swords to affirm their purity.
• The semiotics of an arena speech communicate a lot of things--a big tent, vitality and excitement--but say one thing loud and clear: Something big is going on here.
• For me, that was semiotics.

• semiology

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• Tim Gunn in TV Guide
  She's a bohemian, she's not a classicist. She marches to the beat of her own drummer, and when you talk about the semiotics of clothes, that gown sent the precise message of who she is,said Gunn. "I wouldn't put that dress on Sally Field....
• George Brandis in The Australian
  The body has become the primary canvas on which girls express their identities, insecurities, ambitions, and struggles. I have documented this phenomenon and at the same time explored how this canvas is marked by the values and semiotics of the... Lauren Greenfield http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Greenfield&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFTpAOoRQU7cGipOKjK3xX-5-CVcw Absolutearts.com http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2004/10/20/32460.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNF9nxGrpgIQH6PzQ9F1QabArunlIg Oct 19, 2004 88053 117465 semiotics It's a debate between technical elegance and semiotics," Brandis says of the sedition law.