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Literary notes about semiotic (AI summary)

Literary discourse often employs "semiotic" to highlight the essential role of signs and symbols in shaping meaning. For instance, it is used to characterize symbol manipulation as a core human activity that underpins communication and identity [1]. The term is further applied to describe design processes where the creation of meaning is enacted through both communicative and contextual efforts [2]. It even reaches into anthropological territory, as authors refer to human beings as inherently "semiotic animals," emphasizing our unique capacity for sign use [3]. In contemporary debates, "semiotic" also surfaces in discussions about digital and interface design, where machines and systems are seen as active participants in the production of meaning [4][5][6].
  1. They deal in what Robert Reich called symbol manipulation, semiotic activity par excellence.
    — from The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin
  2. Design as a semiotic integrative practical experience is a matter of both communication and context.
    — from The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin
  3. This is what prompted Felix Hausdorf to define the human being as zoon semeiotikon- semiotic animal, sign-using animal.
    — from The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin
  4. The digital engine is, in final analysis, a semiotic machine, churning out a variety of signs.
    — from The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin
  5. They define an age of semiotic focus, in that symbol manipulation follows language processing.
    — from The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin
  6. Interface design: a semiotic paradigm, in Semiotica 69:3/4.
    — from The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin

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