Umberto Eco (1932), a Professor of Semiotics, indicated that semiotics involve the study of communication through signs and symbols, at the University of Bologna. A well-known philosopher, historian and a literary critic. He published ‘Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language’, in 1984. The subjects of his scholarly examinations includes; St. Thomas Aquinas, Jams Joyce and the Superman.

Another land mark in the making of Semiology is semiotics of culture, introduced by the Tartu school in the early seventies; mostly with a perspective of translating Russian history, and which was then built up by mostly Semioticians in Germany and North America.
Semiotics has been enforced, with interesting results, to theatre, medicine, architecture, zoology, and some other areas that involve or are concerned with communication and the sending of data/information. In fact, some Semoticians, possibly carried away, opined that everything can be analysed Semiotically; they view semiotics as the king of the interpretive sciences, the code that unravel the meaning of all things either large or minute.
Peirce debated that interpreters have to provide part of the substance of signs. He wrote that a sign “is something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity” (quoted in Zeman, 1977, p. 24). This opposed Saussure’s ideas about how signs work. Peirce conceived semiotics important because, as he put it, “this universe is perfused with signs, if it is not composed exclusively of signs.” Whatever we do can be seen as information or, as Peirce would put it, a sign. If all things in the universe is a sign, semiotics turns extremely crucial, if not all-important.
Above all, Semiotics is a particular perspective: a view which consists of asking oneself how things become bearers of meaning. Thus, the task of Semiotics includes the determination of benchmark which may assist separate various sign types and other kinds of signification. Popular examples of such typologies are Peirces, trichotonomy icon/index/symbol and the opposition between the analogue and the digital. Both these distinctions turn out to be insufficient, if not inadequate, when they are confronted with actually existing system of signification.
ELEMENTS OF SEMIOLOGY