Szymon Kaliski

Semiotics

• study of sign process - semiosis

  any form of activity, conduct, or process that involves signs, including the production of meaning

  — https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiosis ↗

• compared to linguistics, semiotics take into account non-linguistic signs
• signs/sign systems are classified by how they are transmitted (their medium) - called modality
  • syntactics is semiotics dealing with linguistics signs and syntax
  • pictorial semiotics is semiotics rooted in art history/theory

    pictorial semiotics focuses on the properties of pictures in a general sense, and on how the artistic conventions of images can be interpreted through pictorial codes

    — https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiotics ↗

• encoding and decoding are important part of semiotics - to transfer a sign, it has to be encoded by sender, and decoded by receiver

Backlinks

1. 2022-03-02Information Aesthetics¹