SEMIOTICIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does semiotician mean? 

• SEMIOTICIAN (noun)
  The noun SEMIOTICIAN has 1 sense:

1. a specialist in the study of meaning

  Familiarity information: SEMIOTICIAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEMIOTICIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A specialist in the study of meaning

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

semanticist; semiotician

Hypernyms ("semiotician" is a kind of...):

linguist; linguistic scientist (a specialist in linguistics)

Instance hyponyms:

Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski; Alfred Korzybski; Korzybski (United States semanticist (born in Poland) (1879-1950))

C. K. Ogden; Charles Kay Ogden; Ogden (English psychologist who collaborated with I. A. Richards in designing Basic English (1889-1957))

I. A. Richards; Ivor Armstrong Richards; Richards (English literary critic who collaborated with C. K. Ogden and contributed to the development of Basic English (1893-1979))

Derivation:

semiotics ((philosophy) a philosophical theory of the functions of signs and symbols)