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
• We’re watching the semiotics come together in front of our eyes.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2016
• My master’s degree is in semiotics — the science of signs.
  — Randy Shattuck, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022
• Camp and the system of semiotics groaned and broke under the weight of reality.
  — Elizabeth Isadora Gold, Longreads, 2 Oct. 2020
• 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
• This was distinctly worrisome to anyone steeped in the semiotics of Hollywood.
  — Roger R. Smith, The New York Review of Books, 22 July 2021
• Nolan uses the semiotics of his star’s Protagonist as a new Prometheus in a half-baked experiment of racial representation.
  — Armond White, National Review, 23 Dec. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Like those artists, Mr. Leonilson painted curious figures in bright flat fields of color, adding bits of language, in keeping with a postmodern era in which semiotics and other theories were central elements in art.
  — Roberta Smith and Martha Schwendener, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024