Semiotics

=Semiotics (Research Methods) (GWU EMSE 216-8000)=

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"**Semiotics**, also called **semiotic studies** or **semiology**, is the study of cultural sign processes ([|semiosis]), analogy, metaphor, signification and communication, [|signs] and [|symbols]. Semiotics is closely related to the field of [|linguistics], which in its part, studies the structure and meaning of [|language] more specifically. Semiotics is usually divided into three branches, which include: Semiotics is frequently seen as having important [|anthropological] dimensions; for example,**" -** [|Wikipedia]
 * **[|Semantics]**: Relation between signs and the things to which they refer; their //denotata//, or [|meaning]
 * **[|Syntactics]**: Relations among signs in formal structures
 * **[|Pragmatics]**: Relation between signs and the effects they have on the people who use them


 * ** Background: **
 * ** Appropriate uses of the method, including examples **
 * ** Details of the method **
 * ** Limitations and problems associated with use of the method **
 * ** Potential EMSE use **

There is a new search approach out call Sophia Search that is said to reutrn results based on semiotics and a couple of other factors. Might interesting in assessing as a part of the original example. I hear that therer is a paper that is the basis for the programming.

Semiotics has a fair number of branches.

Well documented article. Also quite a few references.


 * Sources**
 * EMSE 8000, Spring 2011
 * Semiotics. (2011, January 23). In //Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia//. Retrieved 15:08, January 29, 2011, from []

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