Tuesday, December 9, 2008

The Tiger In The Pit And The Pendulum

Semiology

It is said that when we express ourselves in writing or orally, we develop a communication and send a message to a recipient who can take or drop into the void.

The science that studies the communicative value of different signs, as languages, codes, signals and so on. including those not specifically human is the semiology.

Our existence, the very fact of being a social existence, community, a life among others, is interwoven with indications that put certain conditions, communicate a particular message that people are generally able to interpret . For example, as seen previously in the "verbal and nonverbal communication, when approached the index finger to his nose, who is standing next to me understand that this sign means" shut up ".

And 'not always clear that the interpretation of these signals is easy and unanimous.

This means that those signs or signals, to be understood by all alike, must be made to correspond to an agreed code: only those who know this code is able to understand the signal in the right way.

There are cases where the same idea we can be transmitted by separate signs, each corresponding to a particular type of code. Take the example of "code road "has the idea of \u200b\u200balt I may be conveyed as follows:






In all four cases, my reaction is the same: I stop and look something dumb before you move on and continue. we can say that the signifier is the alert, the STOP sign, traffic light red color and so on. and that the meaning expressed by all these signals is the same: that of "alt", obtained through the reference of an agreed code, learned in school or in practice every day.

The importance of the signifier for the determination of significance is considerable. Here's the picture and right, where, according to prevail or a significant other, changes the meaning.

Where "the dark side (significant), the fore a glass (meaning), and if you fix the light side (meaning) you can see two profiles of people (meaning)




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