Rajarata
University of Sri Lanka
Department of Languages
Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities
Online Lectures
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Year and Semester
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Year-2 Semester-1
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Subject
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Syntax and Semantics
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Subject Code
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ENGL 2112
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Course Unit
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Semiotics
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Date
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05.06.2020
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Time
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Theory (9.00 am-11.00 am)
Practical (2.30 pm-4.30 pm)
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Lecturer
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D.N. Aloysius
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Theory Hours
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02
Total No of Hours: 14
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Practical Hours
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02
Total No of Hours: 14
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Semiotics
Semiotics is the study of sign process,
which is any form of activity, conduct, or any process that involves signs,
including the production of meaning. A sign is
anything that communicates a meaning, which is not the sign itself, to the
interpreter of the sign. The meaning can be intentional such as a word uttered
with a specific meaning, or unintentional, such as a symptom being a sign of a
particular medical condition. Signs can communicate through any of the
senses, visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory,
or gustatory.
The semiotic tradition explores the
study of signs and symbols as a significant part of communications. Unlike
linguistics, semiotics also studies non-linguistic sign systems.
Semiotics includes the study of signs and
sign processes, indication, designation, likeness, analogy, allegory, metonymy, metaphor, symbolism,
signification, and communication.
Semiotics is frequently seen as
having important anthropological and sociological dimensions;
for example, the Italian semiotician and novelist Umberto Eco proposed
that every cultural phenomenon may be studied as communication. Some
semioticians focus on the logical dimensions of the science, however. They examine
areas belonging also to the life sciences—such
as how organisms make predictions about, and adapt to, their semiotic niche in
the world.
Practical: Write an introduction to Semiotics.
References:
1.
A Theory of Semiotics by Umberto Eco
2.
Handbook of semiotics by Winfried
Nöth
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