Semiotics
Semiotics is the study of signs which is based on looking at symbols
and signification which in other words is all based on the purpose of
communication throughout the world between people. Semiotics was first
developed by the Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure and the American
scientist Charles Sanders Pierce whose idea’s laid the foundation of semiotics.
Semiotics is signage that should spring to someone’s mind immediately; I think
anything and everything in this world can be communicated in the smallest way
with the relationship between signs and the meaning. This is symbols and how meaning is created
but the most important fact of semiotics I think is simplicity of communication
which is visual to everyone as everybody is constantly surrounded by signs
around them. There are many signs also that don’t need to be visual such as an
ambulance as you can hear it before you see the ambulance... For example one
brilliant example of semiotics I think is different countries and their flags
to represent them, not only do they represent the countries but now are also
used to show their different cultures.
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