The use of Semiotics has spread across many disciplines:
Art and Advertising, Cognitive Sciences, Cultural Semiotics Studies, and even
American Sign Language Studies.

Book:
Social semiotics
By Robert Hodge, Gunther Kress
Published by Cornell University Press, 1988


Articles: (I am not sure of the publishers, sorry)
Donnie Darko and It's Use of Semiotics
A Communication Theory Paper, Linking the Theory of Semiotics and the
Film Donnie Darko
By Lou Larsen, published Nov 12, 2006

Musicology and Semiotics: A Non-Traditional Approach to Studying Popular Music
By Timothy Sexton, published Jul 20, 2006

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On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Carol Morrison <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hello fellow Grammarians:
> I have a question regarding the field of "semiotics" (the theory and study
> of signs and symbols; reading signs-for those who aren't familiar). Is
> semiotics a science unto itself or is it a branch of linguistics? The reader
> I am using in one of my freshman writing courses, Signs of Life, uses a
> semiotic approach to interpreting literature and other cultural texts. One
> of my students asked me today if semiotics is used in any other fields aside
> from English studies and language. Any thoughts?
> Thanks much.
> Carol Morrison
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