CMNS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Roland Barthes, Sign System, Margarine

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMNS 110
• Professor: Gary Mc Carron

Document Summary

Cmns 110 - lecture 6 - semiotics: making meanings encoding and decoding messages. Unit deals extensively w/ subject of semiotics. Particularly focuses on development of vocab used by semioticians in practice of analyzing texts according to semiotic principles. Describe codes into which these signs organized. Describe way codes related to culture & society. Distinguish b/w signifying codes & behavioural codes. Generate examples of signifying codes & behavioural codes. Integrate ideas related to purpose & goals of semiotics in cmns. Semiotics tells us things we already know in a language we will never understand . Vocab used in semiotics - one of most challenging features. Many things analyzed by semioticians - matters about which we are already familiar. B/c semiotics frequently deals w/ common signs & texts of daily life. Through lens of semiotics, cmn scholars examine many everyday social & cultural practices to see things in diff light.