Biosemiotics&_160;· Code
Computational semiotics
Connotation&_160;· Decode&_160;· Denotation
Encode&_160;· Lexical&_160;· Modality
Salience&_160;· Sign&_160;· Sign relation
Sign relational complex&_160;· Semiosis
Semiotic elements & sign classes
Semiosphere&_160;· Literary semiotics
Semeiotic&_160;· Umwelt&_160;· ValueOne of the attempts to formalize the field was most notably led by the Vienna Circle and presented in their International Encyclopedia of Unified Science, in which the authors agreed on breaking out the field, which they called "semiotic", into three branches
These branches are clearly inspired by Charles W. Morris, especially his Writings on the general theory of signs (The Hague, The Netherlands, Mouton, 1971, orig. 1938).
Semiotics is frequently seen as having important anthropological dimensions, for example Umberto Eco proposes that every cultural phenomenon can be studied as communication. However, some semioticians focus on the logical dimensions of the science. They examine areas belonging also to the natural sciences - such as how organisms make predictions about, and adapt to, their semiotic niche in the world (see semiosis). In general, semiotic theories take signs or sign systems as their object of study the communication of information in living organisms is covered in biosemiotics or zoosemiosis.