Semiotics

Japanese: 記号学 - きごうがく(英語表記)semiotics
Semiotics
Semiotics is also called semiology. It comes from the Greek word sēma (sign), and is the study of signs and their semantic connections. Philosophers have long been interested in semiotics, and linguists such as Saussure suggested the direction of research by positioning linguistics within semiotics, but it was C. Peirce and C.W. Morris who systematized semiotics as an academic field. Morris divided semiotics into three fields: (1) pragmatics, which studies the relationship between signs and their users; (2) semantics, which studies the relationship between signs and what they refer to; and (3) syntax, which studies the relationship between signs within a system. Semiotics is making a major contribution not only to modern linguistics and logic, but also to information theory and communication theory. Semiotic interpretations of various cultural and social phenomena have also been attempted, particularly by French structuralists. (→Linguistic signs)

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Japanese:
記号論 semiologyともいう。ギリシア語 sēma (記号) に由来し,記号およびその意味連関を研究する学問。古くから哲学者の関心をひき,言語学者ではソシュールが言語学を記号学のなかに位置づけて研究の方向を示唆したが,学問として体系づけられたのは C.パース,C.W.モリスらによる。モリスは記号学を次の3分野に分けた。 (1) 語用論 pragmatics 記号とその使用者との関係を研究する。 (2) 意味論 semantics 記号とそれがさすものとの関係を研究する。 (3) 構文論 syntax 一体系内の記号同士の関係を研究する。記号学は現代の言語学,論理学のみならず,情報理論,コミュニケーション理論に大きな貢献をなしつつある。また,特にフランスの構造主義者たちによって,さまざまの文化・社会現象の記号学的解釈が試みられている。 (→言語記号 )  

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