COMM 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Real Tree, Kodak, Semiotics

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 1101
• Professor: Benjamin Woo

Document Summary

The invention of the photograph revolutionized the way we think about images. Kodak introduced a series of easy to use cameras that were inexpensive. The photograph introduced a mini revolution, the photographical index. Signifier: the symbol of what we"re talking about (the sound tree) Signified: the concept of what we"re talking about (the image we"re thinking about. Referent: real thing that we"re talking about. (the real tree that we"re talking about when you say tree) outside) Three kinds of relationships between signifier and signified. An icon: a sign where the signifier looks like it"s signified. An index: a signifier that is factually related to a signified. The connection between smoke still know what it is. and fire. Smoke is the signifier that you know there is a fire. A symbol: signs signified are conventionally connected to the signifier. The difference between a drawing and photographic. A drawing looks like what it"s been drawn.