Semiotics - Media Forms

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What is the signifier?
The physical object - the denotation.
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What is the signified?
The mental concept or meaning the signifier conveys - the conotation.
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What is an iconic sign?
A sign that looks like what it represents
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What is the indexical sign?
A sign that points to what it represents - eiffel tower > paris
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What is the symbolic sign?
When a sign is chosen at random to represent something of association - tick > nike
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What is a paradigm?
Choices and elements of a group of signs representing the same category of ideas. Used in construction of a media text.
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What is a syntagm?
The completed text eg magazine
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What is a metonym?
Representational image used to stand for a whole.
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Name three people who developed the study of semiology.
Saussure, Pierce and Barthes
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What is the signified?

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The mental concept or meaning the signifier conveys - the conotation.

Card 3

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What is an iconic sign?

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Card 4

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What is the indexical sign?

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Card 5

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What is the symbolic sign?

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