Quite often the terms semiotics and semiology are equal, so that often instead semiotics use semiology and vice versa.
Ferdinand de Saussure speaks of the sign and the first makes the distinction between semiotics and semiology. Semiotics is the general theory of signs. Semiology study the functioning of the sign in the social practice. Today avoids this distinction and semiotics equate with semiology, ie, they are synonyms.
GENERAL Semiotics: The sign does not exist only in language and literature, but in the film we have and tone as a sign, signs of the folk tradition (clouds as signs, etc..). The sign is a general phenomenon that exists in all forms of human communication. With the help of the sign announce something. The sign communication across borders меѓучовечкото communion. It is believed that she sign communication has with animals, plants etc..
Within the general linguistic information and communication there is the literary form of communication between author and reader, between the work and the reader etc..
Semiotics is shared:
First Semantics - which focuses on the relationship between sign and signified;
Second Pragmatics - is a discipline that focuses on the relationship between the sign and the reader;
Third Syntax, syntax - is a discipline that focuses on the relationship between signs, eg.: Texts as signs books as characters.
Semiotics makes several typologies and distinguishes several types of sign systems:
First PRIRODOJAZICHNI SYSTEMS - define them as first-and include natural languages, ie national languages (English, French, etc.).. These are the languages that are characterized by a specific practice use. In these systems each character is in relation to an object (reference) from the reality. Not all characters are specified, does not always mean only objects that exist, which are in reality, but there are also abstract, metaphysical signs that signify something that is not tangible, but still exists