semiotic.

/see-mee-ot-ik, sem-ee, see-mahy-/US // ˌsi miˈɒt ɪk, ˌsɛm i, ˌsi maɪ- //UK // (ˌsɛmɪˈɒtɪk, ˌsiːmɪ-) //

符号学,符号学的,符号学的作用

Definitions

1.
Also se·mi·ot·i·cal.
- ›of or relating to signs.
- ›of or relating to semiotics.
- ›Medicine/Medical. of or relating to symptoms; symptomatic.

Politicians in Washington may think of slaughter in semiotic terms, but the people on the ground never do.
His academic semiotic and philosophical works wield a thousandth of the influence of his bestsellers.
This is what prompted Felix Hausdorf to define the human being as zoon semeiotikon- semiotic animal, sign-using animal.
They deal in what Robert Reich called symbol manipulation, semiotic activity par excellence.
The word symbol points to work become semiotic praxis, but this is not what I am after here.
They define an age of semiotic focus, in that symbol manipulation follows language processing.
That is, the structure of family-based semiotic processes and the structure of the family are similar.