BIOL 350 Lecture 2: Week 1
7 Mar 2017
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Jamie mckenzie nash jecm@queensu. ca: office hours tuesday 11 12 pm b120 (basement maccorry) Something that stands for something else: originated as a medical term in ancient greece, diachronic the historical interpretation, connotation a meaning beyond the meaning. Iconic a photograph, a picture, most closely resembles its sign. Indexical spatial indicators or pronouns (here, there, he, she, smoke as indicating fire) Symbolic never has a direct relationship to sign, arbitrary, culturally based. From closest to farthest from reality: concrete sign can be pointed to, abstract sign can exist but cannot be defined or pointed at (ex. space), you can point at something. Subordinate concept chimpanzee that is a connotation of it (ex. pointing at a heart to indicate love) Superordinate concept mammal: ordinary concept monkey, cultural context formulates a meaning determined by their intellectual semisphere, advent of the printing press, thought that earth rotated around the sun 1475, denotation ground zero interpretation.
