Semiotics Analysis

Semiotics

The study of signs and sign systems.

Simply put, a sign is anything that can stand for some other thing.
Just about anything that we can perceive somehow can act as a sign, so long as it can point away from itself and toward something else.
Therefore, most of the time when we are doing semiotic research, we are not collecting signs per se. Instead, we are looking at how things stand in relation to other things, and how those mediated relationships help us understand things better.

In ancient times semiotics was a branch of medical science, in which signs were taken to describe medical symptoms for the purpose of diagnosis. 

Later, it became a branch of philosophy where verbal and nonverbal signs were taken to be representations of the true nature of things. 

Those who study semiotics are deeply immersed in religion and spirituality wherein sign and symbol use are so prominently integrated.

Semiotics is also a metalanguage that serves to describe human behavior because people are sign users.