Semiotics

The study of signs and symbols, especially as the signs of language and elements or other systems of communication are all theories' of semiotics. In Semiotics the study not only involves the study of what we only refer to as 'signs' in a common on going day speech, but of anything that can also 'stands for' or 'mean' something different. In a semiotic sense of view, words, images, sounds, gestures and objects are the forms that signs take the forms of. Signs do not only just ‘convey’ the meanings, but constructs meanings that constitute a medium. Semiotics can help people to understand and realize the meaning of it, not absorbed passively but also arises actively in the 'process of interpretation'. "Not only are words signs but also gestures, images, non-linguistic sounds like the chimes of Big Ben"(Umberto Eco, Times Literary Supplement. 1973), this short passage explains the process of semiotics and about what it does in a less dramatic but more effective way, and it also reveals that there is much more to semiotics than what we normally think it is. To my understanding of semiotics i understand that it can help us notice our sense of identity even more, which is established through our signs and language, it also creates and maintains an engagement with our signs systems.

Examples of semiotic signs