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Semiology is one of the sciences that are part of the study of communication since it is responsible for analyze the different types of symbols and signs produced by the human being to communicate as well as their meanings and signifiers. Semiology is understood in many cases as the equivalent of semiotics.

When communicating, the human being uses countless types of symbols and signs that are the means through which some type of message is projected. Both when speaking or when to write as when establishing images as symbols, the human being sends a message to some specific receiver and can thus communicate. Even the words are composed of symbols that are the letters and that allow the idea that remains in the head of a person to be transmitted abroad in a written or spoken way.

Symbols may have a specific and accepted meaning (such as signs used for vial education) as well as they can have a particular meaning that each individual grants them according to the experiences, situations, sensations and knowledge of him. The task of semiology is precisely to analyze this type of communication. The meanings can also vary from culture to culture, from society to society and it is here that sciences such as science also come into play.

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Symbols always have some meaning that may be more or less obvious depending on the case. Spaces or situations such as rituals, ceremonies, events or even the most everyday and normal serve as spaces for semiology to act and analyze the meanings behind each communicative act, behind each transmission message, etc. Symbols are used in many spaces such as religion, the art, medicine, the military world, economy, mathematics, etc.

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