Re: VMs: Definition of Semiotics

[Jacques Guy <jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

10/09/2003 8:37:01 PM, ajb <ajb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Hello
>
>I have read too many clashing and far from clear definitions.
>
>In the context of the current discussions of this discipline in this
>list, could someone please be good enough to define SEMIOTICS for me,
>without too much jargon, please?

David Crystal's definition in his Cambridge Encyclopedia of 
Language, perhaps:

"The study of the properties of signs and signalling
systems, especially as found in all forms of human 
communication".

It can cover a lot, including what we Frogs call
"la bouteille à l'encre".


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