ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Anthropological Linguistics, Semiotics, Denotation
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White entitlement- subtle and systemic discrimination (like networking, social class) Wrongs caused by social construction may entail historical rights. Should catholics in toronto have the right to pay for catholic rather than secular schools? (why not protestants, jews, muslins?) Signifying reality how signs reflect but also make our world. Knowing: making sense (the thing we know we can explain) Semiotics is the study of language and other signs. How signifying (through language and other signs) is part of life in human society. Never published, lectured at students and they wrote everything down. Signifier is the form of the sign and the signified is the mysterious thing that is the reference of the word. Connected only via the system of signification (eg, language). Motivated inclued icons and indexes but not symbols. Icon: resembles in its form what it represents. Share some of their physical form (shape, sound, etc) with the referent.
