Meaning-makingIn psychology, meaning-making is the process of how people construe, understand, or make sense of life events, relationships, and the self. The term is widely used in constructivist approaches to counseling psychology and psychotherapy, especially during bereavement in which people attribute some sort of meaning to an experienced death or loss. The term is also used in educational psychology. In a broader sense, meaning-making is the main research object of semiotics, biosemiotics, and other fields.
Visual rhetoricVisual rhetoric is the art of effective communication through visual elements such as images, typography, and texts. Visual rhetoric encompasses the skill of visual literacy and the ability to analyze images for their form and meaning. Drawing on techniques from semiotics and rhetorical analysis, visual rhetoric expands on visual literacy as it examines the structure of an image with the focus on its persuasive effects on an audience. Although visual rhetoric also involves typography and other texts, it concentrates mainly on the use of images or visual texts.
Encoding (semiotics)Encoding, in semiotics, is the process of creating a message for transmission by an addresser to an addressee. The complementary process interpreting a message received from an addresser is called decoding. The process of message exchanges, or semiosis, is a key characteristic of human life depending on rule-governed and learned codes that, for the most part, unconsciously guide the communication of meaning between individuals.
Cercle linguistique de PragueLe cercle linguistique de Prague ou « école de Prague » (en tchèque Pražský lingvistický kroužek) était sous sa forme originale un groupe de critique littéraire et de linguistique influent du . Ses membres ont développé des méthodes de critique littéraire sémiotique de 1928 à 1952 qui ont eu une influence significative et durable en linguistique et sémiotique. De nos jours, le cercle linguistique de Prague est une association qui vise à contribuer à la connaissance de la langue et de ses systèmes de signes associés selon des principes structurels–fonctionnels.
Umweltthumb|droite|150px|La tique ne réagit qu'à trois stimuli externes, qui déterminent son Umwelt Selon Jakob von Uexküll et Thomas A. Sebeok, l'Umwelt (pluriel : Umwelten) est l’environnement sensoriel propre à une espèce ou à un individu, . Ce concept est à la croisée des chemins entre la biologie, la communication et la sémiotique chez l'animal humain et non humain. La théorie de von Uexküll explique que des organismes, bien que partageant le même environnement peuvent néanmoins avoir l'expérience de différents « mondes propres ».
SemiosphereThe semiosphere is an idea in biosemiotic theory proposing that, contrary to ideas of nature determining sense and experience, the phenomenal world is a creative and logical structure of processes of semiosis where signs operate together to produce sense and experience. Abstraction (sociology) Human communication Biosemiotic theorists regard the idea of the semiosphere as beginning with continental philosophers' recognition of an epistemological gap between the ontological and the ontic, where it is initially difficult to conceptualize the way that subjectivity is created in between them.
Semiotics of music videosSemiotics of music videos is the observation of symbolism used within music videos. Semiotics in popular music, or mesomusica, is different from semiotics in other musical forms, because pop music denotes a cultural object (Matusitz, 2004). Popular music has many signs in itself because it has many components and uses, but it also appeals to the emotions of a generation. Music is the “logical expression” of feelings, a "symbolic form". Music videos are an example of syntagm, wherein interacting signifiers form a meaningful whole.
Sign relationA sign relation is the basic construct in the theory of signs, also known as semiotics, as developed by Charles Sanders Peirce. Thus, if a sunflower, in turning towards the sun, becomes by that very act fully capable, without further condition, of reproducing a sunflower which turns in precisely corresponding ways toward the sun, and of doing so with the same reproductive power, the sunflower would become a Representamen of the sun. (C.S. Peirce, "Syllabus" (c. 1902), Collected Papers, CP 2.274).
Semiotic literary criticismSemiotic literary criticism, also called literary semiotics, is the approach to literary criticism informed by the theory of signs or semiotics. Semiotics, tied closely to the structuralism pioneered by Ferdinand de Saussure, was extremely influential in the development of literary theory out of the formalist approaches of the early twentieth century. The early forms of literary semiotics grew out of formalist approaches to literature, especially Russian formalism, and structuralist linguistics, especially the Prague school.
ZoosémiotiqueLa zoosémiotique est une discipline de la zoologie et de la sémiotique qui étudie la communication animale, à l'exception de celle de l'Homme. Cet aspect est quant à lui étudié par l'anthroposémiotique. La zoosémiotique est une partie importante de l'éthologie, qui étudie le comportement animal dans son ensemble, mais aussi de la sociobiologie, des sciences du langage (zoolinguistique) et de l'étude de l'intelligence animale. C'est une sous-discipline de la biosémiotique et une discipline à part entière de la linguistique non-humaine.
