COMS 2003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Roland Barthes

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

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Icons: signifier has likeness to the signified. (think of a word like growl . it sounds like what it represents. Index: an expression (visual, textual) that loosely correlates to something else in a given concept. Symbol: a representation that stands in for something that exists in the world or something that is uttered. (we can talk about a canoe without being in one or in the presence of one) Levi-strauss: the rules of saussure"s language science can be applied to science. Every cultural practice is like a different sentence. Kinship systems are built by the mind subconsciously. Built through seeing other people and understanding the way society works. Cultural practices that are lodged into your brain are like computer codes, its binary. He argues that all cultrues make different kinds of food, but all cultures have processes of converting raw food into cooked food.