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BIRTH AND GROWTH OF SEMIOTICS

Zinah Abbass Dweich, Iman M. M. Muwafaq Al Ghabra

Volume: 10 Issue: 4 2020

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The existence of signs whether natural or unnatural in the ordinary life has forced scholars to think about and study them seriously. The aim of the current review paper is to develop an understanding of semiotics, highlight its birth and growth, and introduce the different stages of its development depending on data collected from previous studies. Many of literate people consider semiotics, the study of signs, vague because it does not have enough attention from academics in spite of its important role in the process of communication, and the interpretation of the different activities among people as well as the different natural signs occurring around them. It appeared that the ancient people felt the necessity to found such science because they were using signs before the usage of writing. The prime need of people at the age of antiquity was to know the divine and medical instructions; there were men specialized in interpreting signs in that respect since then.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.37648/ijrssh.v10i04.024

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