CAS350H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Linguistic System
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Paris match: cover depicts a young negro in a french uniform saltuting. Signifies france as a great empire with all people serving under the cflag. Presence of the signified through the signifier. Signifier: final term of the linguistic system, or as the first term of the mythical system. Myth gives in return a natural image of reality. Myth is constituted by the loss of the historical quality of things. Function is to empty reality completely, to remove things from their human meaning to signify a human insignificance. Political meaning whole of human relations in their rela social texture. If i state the afct of freecnh imperiality without explaining it, i am near to finding that it is natural and goes without saying.
