study semiotics

Despite having advanced degrees in mathematics and statistics; despite being previously formally trained in cognitive science, psychology, religion, computer science, chemistry, and art history (with a couple of additional degrees in there as well); despite being well read in art, history, physics, engineering, and neuroscience; and despite actively finishing my PhD in Cognitive Sceince…

...despite all of this, I still consider semiotics and anthropology to be my “home” disciplines.

...into the great pond of semiotics several years ago when working on my undergraduate thesis in literature. Utterly fascinating, but have done little with this since. Thanks to a wonderful professor, I have what I think is a solid grounding in structuralism, and a basic grasp of Derrida’s deconstruction (though I find it extremely irritating at times). Dabbled in Peirce, but got all of it second-hand via other scholars.

I miss it terribly.

The theory and study of signs and symbols, especially as elements of language or other systems of communication, and comprising semantics, syntactics, and pragmatics.