Index of semiotics articles
The following is a list of semiotics terms; that is, those words used in discussion, classification, criticism, and analysis of the study of sign processes (semiosis), analogy, metaphor, signification and communication, signs and symbols. Note: in order to help the reader this page also includes terms which are not part of semiotic theory per se but which are commonly found alongside their semiotic brethren - these terms come from linguistics, literary theory and narratology.
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A
- Addressee (Imported from linguistic theory)
- Addresser (Imported from linguistic theory)
- Authorial Persona (See sign-maker)
- Axes of selection and combination: See Combination, axis of, Selection, axis of
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
- Horizontal axis: See Combination, axis of
I
- Iconicity
- Ideal Reader
- Indexicality
- Inscriber
- Interpretant (Peircean semeiotic system)
J
K
L
M
N
- Narrator (Narrateur terme de la narratologie)
- Narrator (Imported term from narratology)
- Narratee (Narrataire terme de la narratologie)
- Narratee (Imported term from narratology)
O
- Object (Peircean semeiotic system)
P
- Paradigmatic analysis
- Paradigms
- Paratext (A term from narratology)
Q
R
- Receiver (mathematical/transmission theory of communication)
S
- Selection, axis of
- Semeiotic
- Semeotic: See semeiotic
- Semiosis
- Semiosphere
- Semiotics of agriculture
- Semiotics of music videos
- Semiotics of dress
- Sender (mathematical/transmission theory of communication)
- Signs
- Signified (Signifié)
- Signified
- Signifier (Signifiant)
- Signifier
- Sign-maker
- Symbol
- Syntagmatic analysis
- Syntagmatic structures
T
- Tropes (Imported from linguistics)
U
V
- Values
- Vertical axis: See Selection, axis of
W
Z
References and further reading
- Chandler, Daniel, Semiotics: The Basics, Routledge, London, UK, 2002. ISBN 0-415-36375-6
- Jakobson, Roman, "Language in Relation to Other Communication Systems", pp. 570–579 in Selected Writings, Volume 2, Mouton, The Hague, 1971. ISBN 90-279-3178-X