Semiotics is "a general theory of signs and symbolism, usually divided into the branches of pragmatics, semantics, and syntactics." There...now that we've cleared that up, we can...(tires screeching, confused pedestrians snatching wayward toddlers from the paths of various runaway musclecars, fruit carts toppling)
If we don't investigate a little more closely, the definition might as well be "a pile of stuff about things for understanding stuff and things, including 1) stuff, 2) things, and 3) combinations of things and stuff."
I don't expect you to become a semiotician (or semioticist, for that matter) by Tuesday, but you need to understand and be able to discuss the basic concepts. Keep in mind the basic diagram we made about the relationship between an artist, the work, and the viewer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiotics
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/semiotic.html
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