Abstract

Semiotics is the discipline that studies the signs and the cognitive process of meaning-making. As part of semiotics studies, the idea of semiospheres has been formulated, representing spheres of meaning that do not exist in isolation. This means that concepts can have multiple meanings. This paper shows these ideas applied to computer science and software engineering concepts as categories. We applied a survey to categorize different computing-related concepts, and we processed the answers of IT professionals from India and Chile. Findings show conceptual differences in the involved countries supporting the idea of technological semiospheres. We discuss the results from educational and disciplinary perspectives.