FAH102H1 Lecture : Intellectual Paradigms + Thinkers II

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pearkangaroo93

22 Jun 2011

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While most paradigms look at the meaning of a work, semiotics looks at why/how meaning (+interpretation) is even possible. Study of science (words, images, sounds, gestures, objects, ideas) -> how they represent things. Signs art part of a system or structure. Science is possible not bc of any inherent meaning, but because signs are part of a system/structure. There are rules to communication/expression that underpin all cultures. Shifts from the producer to the system that allows expressions/interpretations. The viewer is a conduit through which meaning flows. The most influential ideas for art history come from: sassure: linguist. Proposed that linguistic analysis could provide a basis for semiology. Langue: wider system in which these utterances are located. Word tree (the literal form of the word on the page, its sound, etc. ) Signified: the concept to which the sign refers. The relationship between these two is arbitrary; but the signifier is accepted + used.

Related Questions

based on chapter 3 of sexualities in context,

Plante distinguishes between the techniques by which transgendered individuals achieve a gender and the way in which gender expression comes more naturally for others.

	True
	False


Hint: Consider what Plante says about how gender is performed.

The natural sciences, as opposed to the social sciences, can achieve objectivity because they do not require interpretation of data and deal only with natural, given objects.