COMS 2003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Semiotics, Roland Barthes, Judy Wajcman
15 Jan 2019
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The sentence is the medium that makes meaning. Humans have a great ability to form sentences that make meaning. Semiology: shows what constitutes signs and meaning. Signified: a notion of what the word means. I. e. signifier-the word stop ; signified-the concept that one should stop moving. This way of thinking is a way to come up with a systematic way of meaning. Strauss: we can use semiotics to understand culture. Strauss: different cultures is a way to understand the overall structure with individuality. Roland barthes: wrestling matches are like the parole, which reveals the structure in the sport. Barthes: death of the author: an author is just reaching down into the well of words and creating a book, article out of it. He isn"t creating the words, and he is only an author in relation to the other people that worked on the book. Horror movies are interesting to you because you understand the parole.
