0 a person who studies semiotics (= the meaning and use of signs and symbols):
Many semioticians are interested in marketing.
He's as alert as any semiotician to the signs and signals in the cards.
The semiotician starts with the text of the art work itself.
Semioticians should, in theory, approach a commercial like they would a work of literature or art.
The principal danger is that the structuralist high ground spatializes everything the semiotician surveys into so much bricolage.
That is an issue for semioticians.
As semioticians of fashion remind us, written clothing represents a set of signs already embedded in a representational web referring to external (social) and internal (psychological) conditions.
At the same time, almost every issue also contains articles by younger, less famous semioticians dealing with new research perspectives in semiotics.
Different authors have called themselves philosopher of language or semiotician.