There are semiotic theoretical approaches to shamanism, ("ethnosemiotics").

Trained as a linguist, Rozhdestvensky developed a semiotic approach to the study of culture.

His work on collective memory has been integral in the turn toward structuralist, hermeneutic, and semiotic approaches within the sociological study of culture.

He later took a more semiotic approach, collected in the volume Semiotic Approaches to Human Relations (1972).

Poetics and new technologies of communication: a semiotic approach" in Face.

Luis Radford (2002) The seen, the spoken and the written: A semiotic approach to the problem of objectification of mathematical knowledge.

"A semiotic approach to quality in requirements specifications"

It is part of a social semiotic approach to language called systemic functional linguistics.

In his Theory of Meaning (Bedeutungslehre, 1940), he described the semiotic approach to biology, thus establishing the field that is now called biosemiotics.

In seeking to converse with subjects in foreign cultures and gain access to their conceptual world; this is the goal of the semiotic approach to culture.