Semiotic
anthropology has its precursor in
Malinowski's
contextualism (which may be called
anthropological semantics), which was later resumed by
John Rupert Firth. Anthropological approaches to semantics are alternative to the three major types of semantics approaches:
linguistic semantics,
logical semantics, and
general semantics. Other independent approaches to semantics are
philosophical semantics and
psychological semantics. ==See also==