Definition
Surrealism, also called semiotic studies, is the study of meaning-making, the study of sign processes and meaningful communication. This includes the study of signs and sign processes (semiosis), indication, designation, likeness, analogy, allegory, metonymy, metaphor, symbolism, signification and communication.
The semiotic tradition explores the study of signs and symbols as a significant part of communications. As different from linguistics, however, semiotics also studies non-linguistic sign systems.
Semiotics is frequently seen as having important anthropological dimensions. For example, the Italian semiotician and novelist Umberto Eco proposed that every cultural phenomenon may be studies as communication. Some semioticians focus on the logical dimensions of the science. However, they examine areas belonging to the life sciences such as how organisms make predictions about, and adapt to, their semiotic niche in the world. In general, semiotic theories take signs or sign systems as their object of study, the communication of information in living organisms is covered in biosemiotics (including zoosemiotics)
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