Semiotics can be great fun. They infest drama courses now - maybe because the tutors embrace them as something vaguely academic and examinable, justifying the degree status of their courses! But I keep coming back to Sir Laurence Olivier's advice to a young Dustin Hoffman, up to his eyes in technique and theory while filming "Marathon Man". "Why not just ACT, dear boy?"
Why not just let words mean what they mean?
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