Semiotics
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The difference between a sign and a symbol and why semiotics still argues about it
What a code must share before a message can be read at all
The hashtag as irony: when the tag says the opposite of the post
Why do researchers treat silence as a message rather than an absence of one?
Why does the sender-message-receiver model explain almost nothing about real talk?
Signs versus symbols versus signals: the basic distinctions in semiotics
How influence study differs from intertextuality in practice
Writing a raga down in staff notation loses the parts that carry the music
What syntagm and paradigm mean when you read a menu
Why a thumbs-up fails as a sign outside its code community
What Uexküll's Umwelt says about signs an animal cannot perceive
Emoji replaced a whole vocabulary of gestures and nobody agreed on what they mean
How advertising builds connotation with props instead of claims
Why Saussure's sign is arbitrary and Peirce's is not
What is communicative competence beyond grammar?
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