COMN 2200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Anachronism, Medieval Commune, Read Code
6 Dec 2016
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Introduced ideas such as semiology : meaning of life could be found by seeings things as signs, or in other words anything that can be used to stand for something else. Idea tried to discover how all signs work and how society interprets them. American philosopher, c. s pierce developed a different idea of signs : semiotics. He explained it as the universe is perfuse (full of) with signs, if not comped exclusively of signs. () composed. Idea is used to explore and clarifying signs. Saussure also believed language to be a system of signs and it"s meaning would variety due to its relationship with other words in the system. Author uses the example of my husband was late. and my late husband was they are the same words yet in different orders they mean very different things. Saussure interested in how meaning was formed and communicated.
