I understand this to mean that he identifies himself mainly as a social semiotician who is …. From Wordnik.com. [Literacy News – 118th Edition « News « Literacy News] Reference
I understand this to mean that he identifies himself mainly as a social semiotician who is. From Wordnik.com. [Literacy News – 120th Edition « News « Literacy News] Reference
At the age of 75, the semiotician from Bologna is concerned with ugliness and stupidity, not death. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference
Dave: I confess to formalist tendencies, though I'm certainly not a semiotician like some other people!. From Wordnik.com. [On/In] Reference
When the semiotician suspects allusiveness without corresponding exact reference, he charges the poet with nonsense. From Wordnik.com. [Fractures of Unfamiliarity] Reference
Brooklyn-based “commercial semiotician” A. S. Hamrah contemplates the Payless 2.0 logo, and remembers a simpler time. From Wordnik.com. [dustbury.com » Quote of the week] Reference
If I were a presidential candidate, more than a blogger or a pollster, I'd probabaly hire an anthropologist and a semiotician. From Wordnik.com. [Separated at MySpace] Reference
Suffice it to say that unless you're a cognitive scientist or semiotician, it almost certainly doesn't matter in the slightest. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: SEXIST DECLENSION.] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [On Top of Old Baldy: James Wolcott] Reference
Meanwhile, what Poynter and Youtube are looking for might better be described as “context analyst,” or what used to be known as a semiotician. From Wordnik.com. [The Editor and the Curator (Or the Context Analyst and the Media Synesthete) | Tomorrow Museum] Reference
Signs on a white field by Umberto Eco, the Italian semiotician and now novelist as well, bring us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to the year 1327. From Wordnik.com. [Murder in the Monastery?] Reference
As long as allusions can be codified, the semiotician is content, knowing that "meaning" is a case-sensitive term with scant referentiality outside implementation of primitive needs. From Wordnik.com. [Fractures of Unfamiliarity] Reference
To begin with, Barnes is telling us what being a semiotician means to him, and since he gets paid to be one, it's a good thing to pay attention to what he says, money being what it is and all. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference
In the weeks after September 11, I saw for the first time that the flag—along with all its red, white, and blue collateral relations—is what a semiotician would call “polysemous”: it has multiple meanings. From Wordnik.com. [At Large and at Small] Reference
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). From Wordnik.com. [Joseph A. Palermo: Glenn Beck: "Historian" for a Troubled America] Reference
Mr. Thomas quotes another semiotician with a fancier vocabulary who wrote that the memorial's designers were "seamless political reactionaries who sought to bend the chance to build a national memorial to the iconic Lincoln to their politico-cultural program of controlling the populace by sedative, pacifying mythology.". From Wordnik.com. [A Misunderstood Monument] Reference
I'm a professional semiotician, a reader of signs. From Wordnik.com. [The ADD Blog at Comic Book Galaxy] Reference
As Marxist social semiotician V.N. Volosinov argued in. From Wordnik.com. [Academic Commons] Reference
Objects, as Eco the semiotician points out, can function as signs. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories] Reference
Todd Haynes, a semiotician by training, used the carefully manicured 1950s hedgerows of. From Wordnik.com. [Seattle Weekly | Complete Issue] Reference
I don't mind because he's a favorite of mine: the novelist and semiotician, Umberto Eco. From Wordnik.com. [Anime Nano!] Reference
System, Groensteen mentions "iconic signifiers," which is a passing allusion to the pioneering work of semiotician Charles Pierce. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The Author had been prematurely declared dead by semiotician Roland Barthes in 1968, but it survived in ill health for many years. From Wordnik.com. [Esquire.com Article Feed] Reference
Build Peace - Arizona-based blog by a woman peace activist, mother, writer, anthropologist, semiotician - most often political, but not always. From Wordnik.com. [1TBM] Reference
While that sentiment may sound postmodernist in spirit, Otlet was no semiotician; rather, he simply believed that documents could best be understood as three-dimensional. From Wordnik.com. [Comments at Boxes and Arrows] Reference
Although "The Name of the Rose" is not a story of semiotics, Eco the novelist shares with Eco the semiotician a feeling for the world as a place rich with possible meanings. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories] Reference
And it's not just the polymer chemist talking to the semiotician, but people with special expertise acquiring the ability to talk meaningfully to us, meaning ordinary schmoes. From Wordnik.com. [dy/dan] Reference
But in the time since Barthes, in a manner the semiotician may not have envisaged, that onomastics has descended from the heights of myth and epic having the status of Greek gods. From Wordnik.com. [Interactivist Info Exchange - A Project of Interactivist.net and Autonomedia.org] Reference
The semiotician, as described by Eco in "A Theory of Semiotics" (1976), studies words, pictures, gestures, objects, symbolic and verbal languages, ideas, and ideologies insofar as they may serve as signs - that is, vehicles of meaning. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories] Reference
The pic's deliberate pacing and running time feel like self-indulgence run amok, and yet, the semiotician-as-helmer clearly selected each shot, location or music cue to impart some added element to his overall argument, much of it lost in translation. From Wordnik.com. [Variety.com] Reference
You don't have to be a professional semiotician to see that the Glenn Beck promo is intended to leave the impression that George Soros, the hedge-fund investor and funder of anti-totalitarian and liberal causes, is an anti-Semite; that he was somehow complicit in the. From Wordnik.com. [The New Yorker] Reference
That these two guys (the semiotician and the marketing critic) would get together might seem odd, until you realize how profoundly the rise of the Internet has re-raised fundamental questions of meaning and value-questions which philosophers and marketers alike are trying to solve. From Wordnik.com. [ENCYCLOPEDIA HANASIANA] Reference
In his 1960s work La Tour Eiffel, semiotician Roland Barthes wrote: “Maupassant often lunched at the restaurant in the tower, though he didn’t care much for the food: It’s the only place in Paris, he used to say, where I don’t have to see it.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Demise of Sky-High Dining] Reference
If you work at a bank, own a bank, or market a bank, I recommend the following: 1) figure out why you're here (specifically and with feeling); 2) keep your eye on how the public's relationship to money is changing (hint: find a great semiotician or just ask around); 3) shout it out -- chuck the bad suits and live loud. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
Astute semiotician!. From Wordnik.com. [Cat Rambo] Reference
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