CCT314H5 Midterm: CCT314 Midterm Review (all the lecture notes)
25 Oct 2016
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Sign = signifier + signified- anything can be a sign as long as someone interprets it as "signifying" something - referring to or standing for something other than itself. A signifier of a cat can be a drawing of a cat, the word cat, or an actual cat. Signified: the mental concept of the sign or the concept the sign represents. Example: a person"s mental image of a cat when they see the signifier of a cat. Using open as an example, the signifier of open is the word itself- open; the signified of open is the concept that the shop is open for business. So saussure think the sign have no absolute value. Simulation comes from plato"s idea of the simulacra. Plato"s three orders of representation (representation starts from the principle that the sign and the (cid:396)eal a(cid:396)e e(cid:395)uivalent using language to say something meaningful about, or to represent, the world meaningfully, to other people.
