MEDIAST 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Semiotics, Linguistic System

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Language needs special conditions in order to become myth. Myth is a system of communication, it is a message. Allows one to perceive that myth cannot possibly be an object, a concept, or an idea: it is a mode of signification, a form. Since myth is a type of speech, everything can be a myth provided it is conveyed by a discourse. To discriminate among mythical objects according to their substance would be entirely illusory. Myth not defined by the object of its message but by the way in which it utter this message: there are no formal limits to myth, there are no substantial ones. Everything can be passed from a closed, silent existence to an oral state, open to appropriation by society, for there is no law, whether natural or not, which forbids talking about things. Not everything is expressed at the same time (some lose status of myth and others take it)

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