roduct semiotics: This aspect of semiotics study the use of signs in the pattern of physical products. This could be credited to Rune Mono.
Organizational semiology: This sub-field of semiology examines the nature, charateristics and features of information, and studies how information can best be applied in the area of organized activities and business domains.
Semiotic engineering: This approach view Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) between architects and users at interaction time. The computer communicates for its designers in different forms of conversations specified at design time. These chatting communicate the designers’ understanding of who the users are, what they know the users want or need to do, in which favourite ways and why.
Others include; Music semiotics, Gregorian chant semiology, Semiotic anthropology, social semiotics, visual semiotics, Zoo semiotics, etc.
BRIEF HISTORY OF SEMIOLOGY
Although interest in signs and the way they communicate has a very long history (medieval philosophers, John Locke and others have shown interest), modern semiotic analysis could be accorded to two individuals – Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (1857 – 1913) and American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce (1839 – 1914).
The first source was derived from Charles Sanders Peirce (1839 – 1914), an American realist and philosopher who advised theory of meaning which distinguishes the content of a proposition with the known difference of it being real or not. The second source was inferred from a Swiss Linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (1857 – 1913) through his published book “Course in general linguistics”, published in Paris, 1916, after his death.
Saussure concept of language was a system of reciprocally shaping entities. He differentiated diachronic from synchronic linguistics. Diachronic linguistics which is the study of language change (historical linguistics); while Synchronic linguistics studies the language used at any given point in time. Saussure also identified the distinction between contrastive linguistics which is when the focus is on the distinction am