COM 100 Summer 2014

Semiotics

Tuesday, July 29, 2014 1:51 am

When we are born with a new pure life, we are introduced to signs that carries a full story within each sign and its meaning. As a culture we do things differently that illustrates our background and who we are as people. Growing up we learn the meaning of these signs with the reactions of our peers. Signs surround us frequently on a day to day basis, that gives us a sense of direction. Without signs/symbols the world would not be as organized.

Semiotics is the study of the social production of meaning from sign systems, the analysis of anything that can stand for something else. There are three signs that portray the object, the indexical signs are fully in relation with what the signs portray. Symbolic signs shows no relation with the signs that is portrayed. Iconic signs share a seeming to be what the sign portrays. Every sign/symbols serves a purpose in our organized life’s.

 

 

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