CCT210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Intertextuality, Napkin, Social Code
19 Apr 2016
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Encode: using a code to create a sign. Decode: deciphering something on the basis of the code. Things are meaningful by the way they are connected to one another. Jakobson says that if we don"t have access to the codes we don"t know what it means. Have to have knowledge of the code in order for it to make sense. Food gives us the social language or codes of that society. The way human beings consume food is different than the rest of the animal kingdom. Humans cook their food in order to make us distinct and separate from animals. The drive to improve ones standing in society is universal. Food luxury can be seen as a series of meanings and signs from social meaning. Lots of meanings behind food, which you learn from codes. The meaning of a sign depends on the code within which it is situated, codes provide a framework within which signs make sense.
