CS203 Midterm: Midterm 2016 Answers

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Part a: this is why myth is experienced as innocent speech: not because its intentions are hidden [] but because they are naturalized. This quote is from the roland barthes excerpt, myth today. The article discusses how we can extend our understanding of meaning through signs (and the signifier and signified), with the addition of myths. Barthes describes myths as a type of secondary system of signification. Meaning that sign"s and the accompanying signifying practices are the first order the system and then the signifier refers to something other than itself which creates an associating relationship to cultural contexts. In my opinion, it is much like a connotation or ideology because they are a type of cultural manifestation. An important thing to note about myths is that they are historically produced meaning that they are shaped by the historical relationships of a particular time and place.

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