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For semiotics is the study of signs.

sign The concept was introduced by DE SAUSSURE , who defined it as the union of meaning and significance . The signifier is that which points to a meaning, for example if you see smoke come out by a dwelling (significant) means that there is in fire (meaning). It is a sign that may be of another kind (dog = dogs, two different languages \u200b\u200bbut the same meaning). The significance of a purely conceptual and cultural and not material, that distinguishes it from referent, which is instead the real thing (eg the 'unicorn exists as a concept but not as a concrete thing). Meaning and significance are only in the presence of an interpreter .

Peirce

semiosis has determined that there must exist three different elements:

1. = sign "something that is going to somebody for something in some respect or capacity"


2. object


3. interpretant

between the sign and the object does the interpreter.
Example: varicella in the three elements can be perceived in this way:

1. red dots = sign


2. disease = object


3. varicella = interpretant

E 'physicians to associate the red dots to the illness of chickenpox, they act as interpreter. It 'important that the interpreter possesses the same code and to give context to an object the same meaning and interpretation.

Pierce also defines the concept of unlimited semiosis , understanding it coma infinite recurrence a concept that we possessed. Any definition that we give something is done by using other signs, so there is a sign that last one can be understood without invoking other signs.

The author also has classified the signs in three categories:

1. signs = iconic analogy with what we are meant to represent (for example, onomatopoeic sounds)


2. = indexical signs have physical continuity between subjects and objects (example: the flag that moves with the wind)


3. symbols = signs where there is no any similarity between them and what they want to represent (eg mathematical symbols)

R. Barthes

has identified a distinction between the scope denotative and connotative fundamental semiotic process . The first indicates the objective meaning of the sign, with the second part ofa mean a shift of meaning to something else. Each sign has a field denoting the manifest, but also an area connotative implication, but of greater impact.