semiotic

I’ve spent entire evenings Googling ranch dressing varietals, decoding the semiotics of suburban chain restaurant menus, pondering the subtle thrill of foods that jiggle.

For his part, Ouatiki – an Algerian national who at the time was a PhD student in semiotics – said he suffered greatly from speculation in the media that he may have been in on the heist.

In terms of style and sophistication, Macron could hardly be further away from Donald Trump, but on a deeper psychological and semiotic level, they were more similar than different.

Roland Barthes was a French literary critic who worked in semiotics, the study of signs and symbols, just as Jung did.

Marcel Danesi is professor emeritus of linguistic anthropology and semiotics at the University of Toronto.