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Encoding (semiotics)

Process of creating a message for transmission Semiotics General concepts Sign relation Code Confabulation Connotation / Denotation Encoding / Decoding Lexical Modality Representation Salience Semiosis Semiosphere Semiotic theory of Peirce Umwelt Value Significs Fields Semantics Pragmatics Syntactics Applications Biology Cognition Computation Literary criticism Culture Dress Society Methods Commutation test Paradigmatic analysis Syntagmatic analysis Semioticians Charles S. Peirce Ferdinand de Saussure Roland Barthes Marcel Danesi John Deely Umberto Eco Paolo Fabbri Gottlob Frege Algirdas Julien Greimas Félix Guattari Stuart Hall Louis Hjelmslev Vyacheslav Ivanov Roman Jakobson Roberta Kevelson Kalevi Kull Juri Lotman Charles W. Morris Susan Petrilli John Poinsot Augusto Ponzio Thomas Sebeok Michael Silverstein Eero Tarasti Vladimir Toporov Jakob von Uexküll Victoria, Lady Welby Related topics Copenhagen–Tartu school Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School Philosophy of language Structuralism Post-structuralism Deconstruction vte In semiotics, encoding is the process of creating a message for transmission by an addresser to an addressee. The complementary process – interpreting a messa