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Semiotic: Sign Language

Sign language is a form of communication used by deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals. It makes use of hand gestures, facial expressions, and other body movements. Semiotics is the study of signs and symbols, including how they are used to communicate and make meaning. There are three main branches of semiotics: semantics, syntactics, and pragmatics. Sign language and other communication systems involve the interpretation and response to signs through perception, manipulation, and consummation.

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Semiotic: Sign Language

Sign language is a form of communication used by deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals. It makes use of hand gestures, facial expressions, and other body movements. Semiotics is the study of signs and symbols, including how they are used to communicate and make meaning. There are three main branches of semiotics: semantics, syntactics, and pragmatics. Sign language and other communication systems involve the interpretation and response to signs through perception, manipulation, and consummation.

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Semiotic and

Sign Language
Objective

• Recognize sign language as a language of


cultural significance to people with special
needs
• Identify the different theories of
anthropological linguistics and relate them
to society and language learning.
Activation
How do I feel today?
Decode the Icons
We see around us different symbols and icons. Try to decode the meaning of the following images:
Semiotic
Semiotics was founded by a Swiss linguist, Ferdinand de Saussure
and refers to this as “the life of signs within society”
 Semiotic is the science of communication and sign systems, in short, of the
ways people understand phenomenon and organize them mentally.
 Based on “semiosis”, it is the relationship between a sign, object and a
meaning.
 The sign represents the ‘object’ or reference in the mind of an interpreter.
 Interpretant is the effect of a sign on the person who reads and
comprehends it.
 ‘Interpretant’ also refers to a sign that serves as the representation of an
object.
 It is the ways in which people devise means for transmitting that
understanding and sharing it with others.
 Natural and artificial languages are central to semiotics, though its field
covers all non-verbal signaling.
 Knowledge, meaning, intention and action are therefore fundamental
concepts in the theory of Semiotics.
Practice of Semiotic and History
A semiotician is a person who studies or practices semiotics, deals with
symbols. These may be in a form of image, pattern, and motion and convey
meaning.
John Locke (1632-1704), and English philosopher, regarded semiotics as
the key to the evolution of human consciousness. He further espoused that
language began with signs, that are signs and dyadic, meaning a signature is
tied to a specific meaning.
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) stressed that for one to understand
signs, the must be intelligence capable enough to learn from experience. His
concept of semiotics was triadic; sign, meaning, and interpreter.
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) stressed that for one to understand
signs, there must be intelligence capable enough to learn from experience.
His concept of semiotics was triadic: sign, meaning and interpreter.
Semiotics Takeaways
• Semiotics can help us communicate things through visuals, unspoken and
spoken
• Some signs are accepted and understood globally like traffic signs, emojis,
brand logos.
• Semiotics in written and spoken form included puns, metaphors, and
intertextualities and even cultural commonalities.
3 Branches of Semiotics
Semantics: Relation between signs and the things to which they
refer;
Syntactics: Relations among signs in formal structures
Pragmatics:Relation between signs and their effects on those
people who use them.
3 Branches of Semiotics
Semantics:
Charles Morris states that ‘Semantics deals with the relation of signs to
their ‘designate’ and the objects which they may or do denote.
Syntactics:
Deals with the formal properties of sign and symbols
Deals with the “rules that govern how words are combined to form
phrases and sentences”.
Pragmatics:
Deals with the biotic aspect of semiosis; with all the psychological,
biological and sociological phenomena which occur in the functioning of
signs.
According to C. Morris, people are interpreters of signs.
Signs have three factors that guide interpretation:

• The Designative as aspect directs interpreter to a particular


object.
• The Appraisive aspect highlights objects qualities, enabling
evaluation.
• The Prescriptive aspects directs one to respond in specific
ways
Human action involves signs and meanings in three ways:

• The Perception Stage – the person becomes aware of a


sign
• The Manipulation Stage – the person interprets the
sign and decides how to respond to it.
• The Consummation Stage – the person responds.
Three signs and values connections:

• Detachment – the person (or system) maintains


autonomy
• Dominance – the person (or system) takes precedence
over another person (or system)
• Dependence – the person (or system) relies on the
dominance of another person (or system)
Sign Language
Sign language makes use of the hands,
facial expression and other gestures usually
used by deaf or the hearing-impaired
individuals. However, sign language may also
be very helpful for individuals with intellectual
and physical disabilities especially those with
communication problems like autism and
apraxia of speech
Fingerspelling
Spelling words in signs
may be done using
fingerspelling strategy. There
is a manual for the English
alphabets, which makes up
important parts of sign
language. Fingerspelling is
used to emphasize specific
words like pine, so p-i-n-e
would be spelled referring to
pine tree.
Conclusion
Provide a brief summary of your presentation.
Remind the audience what you covered in the previous slides.
Questions & answers
Invite questions from the audience.
Resources
List the resources you used for your research:
• Source #1
• Source #2
• Source #3

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