ABSTRACT
There are many discussions on using signs to engage in understanding how humans communicate, either effectively or ineffectively, and how signs have been used specifically in human meaning making (Deely 1990). Three influential twentieth-century semioticians with specific theories concerning semiotics were the Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913); the American Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914); and Thomas Sebeok (19202001), a Hungarian who did much of his work in the United States but extended his work to engage semioticians working internationally.
