Abstract
The sign is the fundamental concept for Semiotics (or Semiology), a mode of enquiry extending across a number of disciplines that seeks to explain how phenomena: words, spoken and written; visual images; gestures; material things, natural and human-made, come to take on meaning within communicative contexts.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia of Design |
Editors | Clive Edwards |
Place of Publication | U.K. |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Academic |
Pages | 220-223 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781472521576 |
Publication status | Published - 2016 |