ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Semiotics, Denotation, Onomatopoeia
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Ant100- lecture 13: signifying reality: how signs represent our world: semiotics, language: 1 kind of sign system, the form of signs: signifier and signified, 3 kinds of signs: icon, symbol, index, denotation and connotation. Racism is not always obvious: white entitlement subtle and systematic discrimination, systematic: not just personal, (cid:374)ot a(cid:271)out (cid:862)are you a ra(cid:272)ist(cid:863) Signification: signification- making sense, making signs, linguistic and non-linguistic signs, nature of signs, signifier and signified, symbol, icon, index, denotation and connotation, making up meanings. Anthropological linguistics and semiotics: how signifying (through language and other signs) is part of life in human society. 3 kinds of signs: symbol: arbitrary (not justified, y(cid:373)(cid:271)ols ha(cid:448)e ar(cid:271)itrary relatio(cid:374) to sig(cid:374)ified (cid:894)(cid:862)refere(cid:374)t(cid:863)(cid:895, connection only via the system of signification (e. g. language) Ar(cid:271)itrary us opposite of (cid:862)(cid:373)oti(cid:448)ated(cid:863: motivated: icons and indexes, most words are arbitrary (symbols, cat, happy, scrambled, totally, but some words are not pure symbols; moo, oink, splash, scratch these are onomatopoeia.