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Paul Cobley

Introducing Semiotics

  • Alicia Reyes Morenohas quoted3 years ago
    One of the most notable debates on signs in the Ancient world took place between the Stoics and the Epicureans (around 300 BCE in Athens).
    The crux of the matter concerned the difference between “natural signs” (freely occurring throughout nature) and “conventional” signs (those designed precisely for the purpose of communication).
  • Nastia Kdhas quoted6 years ago
    difference between “natural signs” (freely occurring throughout nature) and “conventional” signs (those designed precisely for the purpose of communication).
  • Nastia Kdhas quoted6 years ago
    Semiotics as a discipline is simply the analysis of signs or the study of the functioning of sign systems.
  • Nastia Kdhas quoted6 years ago
    word “semiotics” comes from the Greek root, seme, as in semeiotikos, an interpreter of signs
  • Юля Шкатоваhas quoted6 years ago
    Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)
  • Юля Шкатоваhas quoted6 years ago
    For Saussure, the sign signifies by virtue of its difference from other signs. And it is this difference which gives rise to the possibility of a speech community.
  • Юля Шкатоваhas quoted6 years ago
    The only reason that the signifier does entail the signified is because there is a conventional relationship at play.
  • Юля Шкатоваhas quoted6 years ago
    Later, “semiotics” will be used as the general designation for the analysis of sign systems.
  • Юля Шкатоваhas quoted6 years ago
    The mental concept of a dog need not necessarily be engendered by the signifier which consists of the sounds /d/, /o/ and /g/. In fact, for French people the concept is provoked by the signifier “chien”, while for Germans, the signifier “hund” does the same job.
  • Юля Шкатоваhas quoted6 years ago
    Central to Saussure’s understanding of the linguistic sign is the arbitrary nature of the bond between signifier and signified.
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