Semiotics Final

This document provides a historical overview of the development of semiotics from ancient Greek and Latin writings through modern philosophers like Saussure and Peirce. It discusses how classical writers like Aristotle viewed signs, and how conceptions of signs evolved in the Middle Ages to include both natural occurrences and linguistic expressions. It then focuses on the models of signs proposed by Saussure and Peirce in the modern era, with Saussure proposing a dyadic model of the signifier and signified, and Peirce proposing a triadic model involving the representamen, interpretant, and object. The document also explores key aspects of each thinker's semiotic theory, such as Saussure's view of the arbitrary nature of