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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The branch of semiotics that deals with the formal properties of signs and symbols.
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- noun this sense?) (relatively rare)
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Semiotic or semiotics: paraphrasing here from the Greek semeiotikos observant of signs, from semeiousthai to interpret signs, from semeion sign; akin to Greek semu sign - more at SEMANTIC: a general philosophical theory of signs and symbols that deals esp. with their function in both artifically constructed and natural languages and comprises syntactics, semantics, and pragmatics.
Archive 2008-02-01 Jan 2008
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The theory and study of signs and symbols, especially as elements of language or other systems of communication, and comprising semantics, syntactics, and pragmatics.
Google vs Yahoo Acquisition Semiotics Ben Barren 2005
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The theory and study of signs and symbols, especially as elements of language or other systems of communication, and comprising semantics, syntactics, and pragmatics.
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Rudolf Carnap offered a definition of “pragmatics” following “syntactics” and “semantics” in order to show the relationship of formal logic to empirical and psychological aspects of meaning, as well as to distin - guish all three.
PRAGMATISM PHILIP P. WIENER 1968
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Altruistic professors are teaching things like syntactics, synonymy, syncretism, and synergism.
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How would it mean anything for you, or me, to say "Oh, that's just syntactics, or pragmatics?" These "
Future Changes 2009
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