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Semiotics
Ferdinand de Saussure
Main page Semiotics is the study of signs, symbols, icons and so forth as elements of communicative behaviour. For
example when we see road signs or danger signs. This triggers an image or thought in our head to what it could
Contents be of. Semiotics in tradition explore the significance of signs and symbols as part of communication. It is
Featured different to linguistics, although, semiotics can also study non-linguistic sign systems too. Sign means, a
content successful, understanding form of communication.
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There are two main elements to Sign. These being the signifier and the signified. Signifier is basically the
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physical from that is to be considered e.g. a fish. Whereas with signified it means, what the culture we live in has
Wikipedia store decided this form means e.g. an aquatic animal that may or may not be domesticated based on the situation.
Following on from this connotations as well as denotations too link with the signifier and signified. Let us take a Born 26 November 1857
Interaction rose for an example. The signifier would be the connotations of the rose meaning the denotations would be the
Died 22 February 1913
signified as the meaning of the word is important whereas with connotation linked with signifier it is focused on
Help the feelings, ideas and cultural meanings which would be associated with the word or object. Main linguistics
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Upload file The first theorist being created the French Linguistic called Ferdinand de Saussure. He created a semiotic theory
Special pages during work in the 1900s. His theory was that, the signs were made up of two parts (as seen above). The Born September 10, 1839
Permanent linguistic sign unites not a thing and a name but a concept and a sound-image.
link Died April 19, 1914
Another theorist who followed on from Ferdinand was Charles Sanders Peirce. He was an American
Page philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist. He believed that logic was the proper branch of semiotics. Main history of science
information His theory sated that semiotics is the relationship between symbol, icon and an index. He focused on developing Interest
Wikidata item the idea that there were different levels of meaning that could be was attached to the above and these operate the
Cite this page different ways on audiences. He also created the theory of categories which is basically a three universal
categories that he created in reply to reading Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel, category theories. The grid has six
vertical columns and 3 horizontal columns. In the first column it states Fitness, Secondness and Thirdness.