The exploration of relations between semiotics and semiosics is a very new scope from terminological connotation and conceptual relation involving sign, its object, interepretant, “the action of signs” (semiosis).This article is to card the definitions of the terms in semiotics so as to clarify the relations of semiotics, semiosis, semiosic, and semiosics from the perspectives of term connotation and conception relations. On the foundation of analysis the definition and connotation of semiotics and semiosis given by Charles Sanders Peirce and Charles Morris, the author discovered that semiosics is indeed a part of semiotics in terms of Morris’s three dimensions of semiotics, which is the products of trajectories of sign action. The distinction and the correlated relation between semiotics and semiosics are, therefore, drawn a conclusion as semiosis includes the three aspects of semiosic and semiotic properties, semiosic activities and its products, and semiosic products. Semiotics, however, explores the connotation between semiotics and semiosis as well as the “subject” defining problem of semiosis and semiosics. The clarification of connotation of terms and conceptual relations establish the terminological and ideological foundation to develop the theories and applications of semiotics.

Min Niu. Semiotics and Semiosics:the Terminological Connotations and Conceptual Relations. International Journal of New Developments in Education (2020) Vol. 2 Issue 3: 4-13. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJNDE.2020.020302.

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