JAV200H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Roland Barthes, Semiotics, Sign Language
30 Sep 2018
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Death and semiotics: or a primer for signs, symbols and linguistic systems from the point of view of a bunch of dead men, semiotics =a philosophical branch of linguistics. Semiotics a study of signs and symbols for communication and behaviour, or more importantly it(cid:495)s the study of relationship between signs and their interpretation: the interpretation is important, there would be no semiotics without humans. Key thinkers: charles peirce, ferdinand saussure, roland barthes. Signifiers and signified are not set in stone : 2. all signs only function in relation to other signs ex traffic signs red, ex can only lie because we have the concept of the truth. If the authors died what does this mean he write all the plays that we attribute to him: was there really one moses that wrote the torra? existence function, who is the real you images.
