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semiotics and semiology  

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  • Semiotics is the study of signs and sign systems. It grew out of two entirely separate traditions in the early 1900s: Semiology (semiologie in the original French), proposed by Ferdinand de Saussure, a linguist in Switzerland, as an extension of psychology; and semiotic, proposed by Charles Sanders Peirce, a philosopher in the United States, as an extension of the study of logic. [Source: Encyclopedia of Communication Theory; Semiotics and Semiology]

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