Semiotics is the idea that texts communicate their meanings through a process of signification
The idea that signs can function at the level of denotation, which involves the ‘literal’ or common-sense meaning of the sign, and at the level of connotation, which involves the meanings associated with or suggested by the sign
“A sign, in this context, refers to something which conveys meaning – for example, a written or spoken word, a symbol or a myth” – Ceasefire magazine
The idea that constructed meanings can come to seem self-evident, achieving the status of myth through a process of naturalisation
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