Associations to the word «Semiology»

Wiktionary

SEMIOLOGY, noun. Semiotics, the study of signs.
SEMIOLOGY, noun. (dated) The science of the signs or symptoms of disease; symptomatology.
SEMIOLOGY, noun. (dated) The art of using signs in signalling.

Dictionary definition

SEMIOLOGY, noun. (philosophy) a philosophical theory of the functions of signs and symbols.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky