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Semiology (from the Greek σημεῖον semeion 'sign' and λόγος lógos 'word', 'reason', also semeology or sematology , English semiology , French sémiologie ) is the general study of linguistic and extra-linguistic signs and their systems. In medicine, psychiatry, and psychology, semiology is synonymous with symptomatology . At the suggestion of Roman Jakobson and with the participation of Roland Barthes , Emile Benveniste , Algirdas Julien Greimas , Claude Lévi-Strauss and Thomas A. Sebeok , the International Association of Semiotic Studies decided in 1969 to replace the term semiology with the almost synonymously used word semiotics to replace.

Concept history

  • The term first appeared in a medical context in the 16th century.
  • In the 17th and 18th centuries, the forms semeiotica were used in medicine alongside semiotice and semiotica as variants of the noun term.
  • The term semiology has been used since 1916, after the publication of Cours de linguistique générale by Ferdinand de Saussure, to denote a general theory of sign systems and communication .
  • In 1966 Michel Foucault uses the term semiology to distinguish it from that of hermeneutics .
  • In 1969, the International Association of Semiotic Studies replaced the term semiology with the almost synonymously used word semiotics .

Semiology with Michel Foucault

In his work Les mots et les choses , first published in French in 1966 , Michel Foucault differentiates the term semiology from that of hermeneutics. While he calls this “the totality of knowledge and techniques that make it possible to let the signs speak and discover their meaning”, he describes semiology as “the totality of knowledge and techniques that make it possible to distinguish where the signs are to define what it institutes as a sign, to recognize their connections and the laws of their concatenation. "

See also

References and footnotes

  1. ^ Synonyms according to Helmut Rehbock: Semiologie. In: Helmut Glück (Hrsg.): Metzler Lexikon Sprache. 4th edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2010.
  2. ↑ Stocker. 1976, p. 348 quoted from Walter Scheufen: Semiotics as a basis for the analysis of advertisements. Grin Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-638-87195-2 , p. 5.
  3. ↑ Winfried Nöth: Handbook of Semiotics. JB Metzler Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-476-01226-3 , p. 3.
  4. ↑ Winfried Nöth: Handbook of Semiotics. Indiana Univ. Pr., 1995, ISBN 0-253-20959-5 , p. 14.
  5. ↑ Thorsten Loch: The face of the Bundeswehr. Communication strategies in the voluntary recruitment of the Bundeswehr 1956 to 1989. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58396-0 , p. 56 quoted from Meier-Oeser 1996.
  6. ↑ Winfried Nöth: Handbook of Semiotics. JB Metzler Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-476-01226-3 , p. 1.
  7. ↑ Winfried Nöth: Handbook of Semiotics. JB Metzler Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-476-01226-3 , p. 3.
  8. ↑ a b Michel Foucault: The order of things. Suhrkamp Taschenbuch Verlag, 1971, ISBN 3-518-27696-4 , p. 60.