Whose semiotics did Roman Jakobson draw insights from?
Roland Barthes
Ferdinand de Saussure
C. S. Peirce
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Answer
C. S. Peirce was a philosopher, logician, and mathematician who developed a theory of semiotics, or the study of signs. Peirce's semiotics is based on the idea that all signs are composed of three elements: the sign itself, the object to which it refers, and the interpretant, which is the mental concept that the sign evokes in the mind of the interpreter.
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