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Cohen was an artist who studies semiotics , or the cultural meaning of signs and symbols.
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Here the influence of psychoanalysis has to he taken into account alongside semiotics , together with the concerns of social history.
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I attempted to explain the semiotics of George of the Jungle, feckless would-be Tarzan, for ever crashing into the nearest tree.
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I have no pretensions to the type of expert knowledge of semiotics that students of linguistics will have.
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Karl Barth's theology can thus be accurately described as a semiology, a theological semiotics .
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Literary theory, drawing on other disciplines, including semiotics and linguistics, seeks for underlying structures and meanings in literature.
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Social semiotics , taking account of questions of interpretation and context, inflects the emphasis specifically towards cultural artefacts and social behaviour.
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This thus stands as a starting point for exploring the potential of complex semiotics as a mode of analysis of the photographic.