ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Saint George, Onomatopoeia, Anthropological Linguistics
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Wrongs caused by social construction may entail historical rights. Should catholics in toronto have the rights to pay for catholic rather than secular schools? (why not protestants, jewish people, muslim?) The nature of the signs: signifier and signified, symbol, icon and index, denotation and connotation. Semiotics is the study of language and other signs. How signifying (though the language and other signs) is part of life in human society. One of the first people in modern semiotics is ferdinand de saussurean (1857-1913: a classic view of signification, signifier- form of the sign (word sound smell), signified- the referent of the word, in. English this is a mystery bc the word dog is used in so many different contexts (this is an example) Icon: something that resembles in its form what it represents ex. Picture of a moose, or people pray to the statue of virgin mary, they are praying to an icon: share some of their physical form.
