How to Use semiotics in a Sentence

semiotics

noun
  • The language games were like something out of a semiotics classroom.
    — Stephen Marche, Esquire, 15 Oct. 2014
  • Camp and the system of semiotics groaned and broke under the weight of reality.
    — Elizabeth Isadora Gold, Longreads, 2 Oct. 2020
  • This was distinctly worrisome to anyone steeped in the semiotics of Hollywood.
    — Roger R. Smith, The New York Review of Books, 22 July 2021
  • The destruction of the Twin Towers was an epochal tragedy for which photographers, like Peress, had to find a different semiotics of loss.
    — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Get our daily newsletter That book was acclaimed as a searing insight into the semiotics of Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
    — The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Charlie’s Rorschach qualities may be another camp element in a movie whose gender semiotics could keep a squadron of graduate students occupied until the end of time.
    — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2020
  • Still, whether the act of appropriation was an endorsement of Sanders’s brand of democratic socialism or a move meant to bait the world’s semiotics professors is likely to remain up for debate.
    — Erika Harwood, Vanities, 18 Jan. 2017
  • Geomythology could thus contribute to a linguistic field known as nuclear semiotics, which grapples with the problem of warning distant generations about hazardous waste.
    — Timothy John Burbery, The Conversation, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Laruccia continued to explore his passion for learning by moving back east to teach semiotics and film at Brown University in Rhode Island.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2022
  • The scene immediately brings to mind AOC’s similar semiotics-savvy dissection of her opponent’s campaign pamphlet in House.
    — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2022
  • Underneath the apparent respectability of his paintings, so smooth in their rendering of elegant references to semiotics and psychology, is a bad child, uncatchable and still uncaught, writhing with glee in the surplus fat of the twentieth century.
    — Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 24 Nov. 2021
  • What came to be the most interesting discovery of my tenure as a fashion critic at The New York Times was how much subliminal voodoo is crammed into the semiotics of advertisements for major luxury brands.
    — Cintra Wilson, The New York Review of Books, 11 Feb. 2020
  • Befitting these studies, there’s a rigor to conversation with Eisenberg — which can coherently zig and zag from vaudeville to Marxist feminist Silvia Federici to the semiotics of the guitar.
    — Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2020

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