JAV200H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Roland Barthes, Semiotics, Arborescent
9 Mar 2018
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Jav200 lec: part of linguistics and philosophy and language. Semiotics: the study of signs, or more importantly, the study of the relationship between signs and their interpretation, key thinkers, charles peirce, ferdinand saussure, roland barthes. Pierce: understands signs in a triangle form three elements. Icon: a sign that resembles the object it is supposed to represent - visual sign, ex. Index: the signs are causally connected, an object that demonstrates what is happening indication of something. Is there a connection between the signs and the meaning: making something happen, cause and effect, ex. Thermometer: symbols, sign has no obvious connect, refers to an object without actually showing it, o(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g that represe(cid:374)ts a(cid:374) idea (cid:271)ut does(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:448)isuall(cid:455) represe(cid:374)t the actual object, ex. Symbol of a rose though it looks like a rose, but it represents love, where it becomes an abstract concept: ex.
