SEMIOTICS Flashcards
in semiotic sense, take the form of words, images, sounds, gestures, acts, or objects. But such things have no intrinsic meaning and become signs only which we invest them with
meaning.
Signs
is a sign which is usually an association of general ideas.
Symbols
An English Philosopher, regarded semiotics as the key to the evolution of human consciousness.
John Locke
He further espoused that language began with signs, that are signs and
dyadic, meaning a signature is tied to a specific meaning.
John Locke
“For one to understand signs, there must be intelligence capable
enough to learn from experience.”
Charles Sanders Peirce
His concept of semiotics was
triadic: sign, meaning, and interpreter
Charles Sanders Peirce
Semiotics was founded by a Swiss linguist named ___
Ferdinand de Saussure
Human language is not a function of the speaker, rather, it is a product that is passively assimilated by individuals.
Ferdinand de Saussure
use of the hands, facial expression and other gestures usually used by deaf
or the hearing-impaired individuals.
Sign Language
Spelling words in signs
Fingerspelling
emphasize specific words like pine, so p-i-n-e would be spelled referring to pine tree.
Fingerspelling
Semiotics can help us communicate things through _____
visual, unspoken, and spoken.
includes humor.
Pun
Figure of Speech used for
comparing, saying one thing is another
thing.
Metaphor
Relationship
between texts, if there are hidden
meanings or not.
Intertextualities
