RHETOR 103B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Roland Barthes, Semiotics, Formal Science
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Myth is a type of speech, system of communications, message. There are formal, not substantial limits to myth. All materials of myth presuppose a signifying consciousness that one can reason about them while discounting their substance. Myth belongs to semiology (science of forms, studies significations apart from their content) Mythology part of semiology (formal science) and of ideology (formal science. Myth is a peculiar system in that it is constructed from semiological chain which existed before it - a second order semiological system (1) language (2) myth itself, metalanguage. Signifier formed by previous system (sign of the previous system) Signifier meaning vs. form / signified (concept) / sign vs. signification. When it becomes form, the meaning leaves its contingency behind, but form does not suppress the meaning. Unlike the form, the concept is in no way abstract, but it filled with a situation. Fundamental character of the mythical concept is to be appropriated.
