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study semiotics

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  • Syracuse
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  • Boulder
  • Canada
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    Funny...  — 4 months ago

    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.

    funniculee is attempting to practice radical acceptance

    Dipped my littlest toe...  — 6 months ago

    ...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.

    Untitled  — 3 years ago

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


     

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