CMN 2173 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Semiotics, Relativism, Intertextuality
29 Mar 2016
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Myth has a particular formal organization: oral and than transcribed, rhyme, etc. Semiotic and the myth of oedipus oral mythusually has been circulated verbally, it needed rhyme and repetition. how structuralist too away or identified the universal structure in the. Oedipus myth the prohibition of incest - universal structure. Function of myth is general: transmission of ancestral knowledge from one generation to another. Myth is particular for its formal organization and types of events and characters. A myth also has a formit is usually handed down orally, verballyit has to have rhyme, repetition, description. Accepts contextual determinations but does not universalize it. More critical analysis: look at the mechanisms of perpetuating the ideology. Polysemic: multiple in meaning so a sign can have multiple meanings. we look at the significance of interpreting the multiple meanings. Linguistic signs could be the textual signwhats written.
