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date: 13 June 2025

semiotics 

Source:
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
Author(s):
Marvin CarlsonMarvin Carlson

The study of signs, cultural traces (verbal, pictorial, plastic) that express, represent, or communicate meanings. Semiotics was first significantly applied to theatre by members of the Prague Linguistic Circle in the 1930s, drawing upon the methodologies of Russian formalism and the linguistic theories of ... ...

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