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    Semiotic is an adjective about signs — not only road signs, but anything that stands for something else: a word, a photo, a uniform, an , the red of a sale sticker. Semiotics (an older French-leaning name is semiology) is the study of how those signs make meaning. A semiotic reading of an asks what the lighting, poses, and logos are quietly saying, beyond the slogan. It is university talk, a little pleased with itself; you will not hear it at the night market. Though actually, the spelling is a trap. This is not semi- as in “half”. It comes from a Greek word sêma, meaning a mark or sign. School words like semantic (about meaning in language) grow from that same Greek root, which is a real family, not a story people invented. If you only remember one thing: semiotic means “about signs”, never “half of something”.

組成From Greek sēmeiōtikós, “observant of signs”, from sêma, “mark, sign”. Not the prefix semi- “half”.

同家族的字

  • semioticsthe name of the study this adjective belongs to
  • semioticiana person who does that study
  • semanticfrom the same Greek root sêma, “sign / meaning”

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semioticadj/ˌsɛmiːˈɒtɪk/

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    Of or relating to semiotics or to semantics.

    • Applying a meme beyond its semiotic used-by date is undesirable, lowering status.
    • Especially when applying [the Lemon test] as a bar examiner might expect would have yielded glaringly ahistorical or politically inconvenient results, [the Supreme Court] regularly found reasons – longstanding historical practice, for example, or semiotic speculations about the social meanings of government actions to hypothetical “reasonable observers” – not to.
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    datedmedicinesciencessymptomalogical (of or relating to the signs or symptoms of diseases)

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