COMS 2003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Semiotics

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Communication and Media Studies
• Course: COMS 2003
• Professor: Ira Wagman

Document Summary

Argues that societies have rules in languages to create unlimited sentences to make meaning. All languages make rules that are baked into us through speech, and once they are baked in, what i am saying is drawn from a pool of words and forming sentences with them. Argues that language is about the configuration of the world structure of language. Example: different languages have the same structure of words, only difference is how the word is said. The reason for that is because we have internalized the rules of language. When we speak, we are activating the structure/rules of language and how we will be understood. Language is a system of signs. has 2 components. 2. signified (a notion of what that word indicates) Think of the word p-u-l-l as the signifier. And a picture of a pull symbol as the signified.