ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Onomatopoeia, Ferdinand De Saussure, Semiotics

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: Ivan Kalmar

Document Summary

Language: one kind of sign systems the form of signs: signi er and signi ed three kinds of signs: icon,symbol,index denotation and connotation. I am the least racist person you have interviewed. We have groups that we cant be part of. White entitlement- subtle and systematic discrimination systematic; not just personal it is not about are you a racist . Wrongs caused by social constructions may entail historical rights. Should catholics in toronto have the right to pay for catholic rather than secular schools? ( why not protestants,jews, muslim) How signs re ect but also make our world. Signi cation: making sense, making signs linguistic and non linguistic signs. Semiotics is the study of language(lingustics) and other signs(semiotics proper) How signifying ( through language and other signs) is part of life in human society. Icons share some of their physical form( shape,sound,etc. Indexes(indices) do not share any of their form with the referent.