ANTH 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Establishing Shot
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Stuart hall- born in jamaica, moved to england. Representation: to represent something with language, visual image or sign. Use culturally understood symbols to communicate meaning to someone else. The meaning is not in the object or the thing, nor in the word. The meaning is constructed by a system of representation between the two parties (send & receiver). Code to explain correlation between language and culture. Code is what fix the relationships between concepts and signs. Saussure says a sign refers to a word and a symbol and its meaning. The relationship between the signifier and signified is signification. First kind of sign is called a symbol. Second kind of sign is called and icon: a mode in which the signifier is perceived as. Third type of sign is an index: a mode of representation where the signifier is not arbitrary but is directly connected in some way.
