Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who studies
semiotics orsemantics
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a specialist in the study of meaning
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word semiotician.
Examples
-
Meanwhile, what Poynter and Youtube are looking for might better be described as “context analyst,” or what used to be known as a semiotician.
The Editor and the Curator (Or the Context Analyst and the Media Synesthete) | Tomorrow Museum 2010
-
Meanwhile, what Poynter and Youtube are looking for might better be described as “context analyst,” or what used to be known as a semiotician.
-
The semiotician in me sees the chalkboard as far more than a mere stage prop. Given that Fox News has access to the most sophisticated and blaring computer graphics to drive home its political points, Beck's use of the chalkboard is remarkably low-tech (even inside a very high-tech television studio).
Joseph A. Palermo: Glenn Beck: "Historian" for a Troubled America 2010
-
As a semiotician of pop culture, I am less interested in the content of the big ape's remarks than in the manner which which they were made.
On Top of Old Baldy: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009
-
I understand this to mean that he identifies himself mainly as a social semiotician who is ...
-
I understand this to mean that he identifies himself mainly as a social semiotician who is …
-
I understand this to mean that he identifies himself mainly as a social semiotician who is …
-
I understand this to mean that he identifies himself mainly as a social semiotician who is …
-
I understand this to mean that he identifies himself mainly as a social semiotician who is …
-
Dave: I confess to formalist tendencies, though I'm certainly not a semiotician like some other people!
On/In 2008
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.