The way humans make sense of life is by organizing it. Compartmentalizing brings order to the chaos and creates a sense of commonality, as well as a shared language that builds understanding. This is ...

Instances of modern humor increasingly exist as multimodal signs, which is most evident in the recent new format of digital memes, image macros, funny videos, and other forms of humor widely ...

Semiotics is the study of nature and the role of signs in the world. It was developed by many scholars such as Charles Peirce, Ferdinand de Saussure, and Yuri Lotman. Through these studies, it is ...

It would appear that self-evident brands have something to do with meaning. Indeed, the very purpose of marketing is to "add value" to products, and this involves giving them additional meaning for ...

As language users we monitor our own writing, speech, reading, and oral reception of sentences as shaped by grammatical relations. We, in fact, cognize language as such in the act of using it, and we ...

Semiotics, the study of signs and meaning-making processes, has long provided a framework for understanding linguistic, cultural, and cognitive phenomena. In recent decades, its extension into ...

Each person's perception is individually unique and subjective (Cytowic 2018.) Anesthesia is the phenomenon of no sensation. Synesthesia is the phenomenon of multiple sensations. Human senses include ...

It was 2005 when I got married and relocated to the USA. One day, when I stepped out for a haircut, something strange happened. I had just settled into the chair when the hairdresser stopped in the ...