semiotics

Word: semiotics Context sentence: the first step towards an examination of the processes of translation must be to accept that although translation has a central core of linguistic activity, it belongs most properly to semiotics, the science that studies sign systems or structures, sign processes and sign functions( Hawkes, Structuralism and Semiotics, London 1977). Source: Bassnett,S (1980) //Translation Studies// London: Methuen & Co. Ltd Definition: Adjective: semiotic Noun: semiotician also semiologist [U]