A Study on Semiotics as a Literary Theory. Compiled by: Names Matric number 1) MAKINDE Kehinde O.         137437 2) FEMI-ADEOSUN Oluwadamilola Y. 143657 3) YAWE Doofan B.         180425 4) ODEBAMIKE Yemisi G.         137442 5) OYEKAN Bashirat Titilayo 6) AMIOLA Oyeleye European studies, Postgraduate school, University of Ibadan. 15th September, 2014. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND The history behind semiotics testifies that it meant at first, a medical diagnosis. A study that identified the ways that various symptoms indicate the diseases that underlie them. It was not applied to the study of relation between human symbols and reality. Aristotle (384-322 BC) took it to investigate the relation between forms and reality more closely. He pointed out that words for instance, do indeed refer to real things, which helps to classify the world into real categories e.g. plants versus animals versus objects and so on. St. Augustin

FINISHING STRONG     H aving had my bath on a windy Monday morning, the burden of the word of God strongly laid on my heart kept me thinking on these words: for what course must I run?, in the stillness of heart alone with God; He took me through the volumes of his words, showing me a man who could confidently say; “I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith” so, I further thought; how was this made possible? As I fell into a deep sleep. Awakened by the honking of a car on the street, I rushed to freshen up and later took my lunch as I left the house for a youth fellowship; on getting there they were discussing the same burden of the word that kept burning within me. As this young chaps explained what it meant to them rather what they understood the phrase to be, the spirit of the lord came unto me   again and said: “Grace for what course must you run?, how can you finish this course?’, then the mystery of the word came to me(my course is my