David Holdaway was my stage name. I was an actor for about eight years in the '90s. I had to change my name because there was another David Nicholls, and I thought if I changed it to my mother's name, she'd be touched.
Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages. . . all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on. . . There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics.