CMN 210 Lecture 3: sept. 21, 2016
4 Oct 2016
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Interpersonal contexts: how people interpret different messages and the different meaning within them, human experience often affects how we interpret things, anything can have a variety of interpretations, people create their own meaning to things. Signifier is material form, sound or visual marker that is more of a sensory experience. Located within a code and its uniqueness is what differentiates it from any other signifier so it can be recognized, defined by their differences and recognized as written and oral. Is only a signifier due to its location within a social refined system of differences: codes and meanings are arbitrary. Unclear point: a sign is more than a signifier, and is a signifier linked to a signified or meaning. But the signified is not a concept or referred, but is another signifier, itself defined within its own system or difference. Signs are a part of a system (of difference)
