Social Semiotics and the Related Interpretation

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10.2991/assehr.k.210806.094How to use a DOI?

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social semiotics, related interpretation

Abstract

Social semiotics studies cultural and community-specific semiotic practices in order to produce various texts and meanings in the contexts of various situations and of culturally meaningful activities. From the perspective of social semiotics, our understanding of reality cannot be separated from the actual compiled code and semantic system, which means that social (cultural) reality itself is a building full of meanings----a kind of semiotic structure. For this reason, text, style, code, language system and its social structure are put into the theoretical study of semiotics. Thus social semiotics is to study the social dimension of meaning, and of the power of human processes of signification and interpretation in shaping individuals and societies, and focuses on social meaning-making practices of all types, whether visual, verbal or aural in nature, exploring human signifying practices in a specific social and cultural environment, and attempts to explain meaning-making as a social practice to develop an analytical and theoretical framework that can interpret the social context of meaning-making.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jinshun Long
AU  - Jun He
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/08/09
TI  - Social Semiotics and the Related Interpretation
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 5th International Seminar on Education, Management and Social Sciences (ISEMSS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 508
EP  - 511
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210806.094
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210806.094
ID  - Long2021
ER  -