ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Ferdinand De Saussure, Semiotics, Onomatopoeia
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The nature of signs: signifier and signified (two aspect, symbol, icon, index (three types) **study of signs = semiotics study of: 1) language and 2) semiotics. **study of language = linguistics (part of semiotics) Saussurean theory on signification: signifier (sign/object) and signified (what is referred to by the signifier/what it stands for) Icon: share some of their physical form with the referent. Index: do not share any of their form with the referent, doesn"t sound or look like the referent, referred to as indicate but does not picture it, smoke refers to fire. Denotation: the actual, physical circumstance or picture: set, open to argument. Connotation: what the sign implies: open to argument. Some referents are real and others (i. e. yeti) are not: therefore words construct reality lies, plans, future, etc not necessarily real or real yet, construction through signs is an adaptive advantage of homo sapiens.
