Lexical (semiotics) In the lexicon of a language, lexical words or nouns refer to things. These words fall into three main classes: proper nouns refer exclusively to the place, object or person named, i.e. nomenclature or a naming system; abstract nouns refer to concepts and ideas. Other than lexical words, the lexicon consists of functional or ...

Semiotics (or semiology) is a theoretical framework for the study of the meaning of language, signs and symbols.It was first developed in the early 20th century, separately, by the Swiss Ferdinand Saussure and Charles Sanders Peirce of the U.S.A. It can be described as both a science and a technique: a science because it has its own theories and a technique because it …

Lexical semantics is a subfield of computational linguistics and linguistics.It is the study of how and what the words of a language denote (Pustejovsky, 1995) (i.e., it looks at how words name concepts).. It covers theories of the classification and decomposition of word meaning, the differences and similarities in lexical semantic structure between different languages, and the …

Noun (wikipedia semantics) (-) (linguistics) A branch of linguistics studying the meaning of words. Semantics is a foundation of lexicography.; The study of the relationship between words and their meanings.

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Semiotics (also called semiotic studies) is the study of sign process . It includes the study of signs and sign processes, indication, designation, likeness, analogy, allegory, metonymy, metaphor, symbolism, signification, and communication. It is not to be confused with the Saussurean tradition called semiology, which is a subset of semiotics.