Semiotics - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Representation - ️️Refers to the use of language and images to create meaning about the world around us. (We use words to understand, describe, define—images too) Semiotics - ️️A theory of signs concerned with the way things, (words images and objects) are vehicles for meaning. Mimesis - ️️representation as a process of mirroring or imitating the real (Greek) Referent - ️️the original object itself that is being represented-not the copy in the representation (Myth o...

Representation - ️️Refers to the use of language and images to create meaning about the world around us. (We use words to understand, describe, define—images too) Semiotics - ️️A theory of signs concerned with the way things, (words images and objects) are vehicles for meaning. Mimesis - ️️representation as a process of mirroring or imitating the real (Greek) Referent - ️️the original object itself that is being represented-not the copy in the representation (Myth o...

CMN 232 Midterm Exam Questions & Answers.Martin and Nakayama - correct answer -6 imperatives of studying ICC -culture is core concept of ICC *learned patterns of behaviors and attitudes shared by group of ppl *social science *Interpretive *Critical Pillar - correct answer -critical approach to culture -think of culture as imagined communities, but not to discredit nationality and ethnicity as apart of culture **Stresses complexity, links culture to group membership **Argu...

Art Designer Creates the visual elements and assets of the game Narrative Writing Creating a story Dependability Ability to be relied on and trusted Internal Producer Responsible for ensuring the design objectives required by the production group are achieved by the design group Game Designer Establishes the rules of the game, finalizes the design documents, and ensures the game will work as envisioned Game Writer Creates character depth and interaction ...

Skinner - answer-behaviorism - learn from experience and feedback. keeps happening until automatic Chomsky - answer-a baby is born with universal grammar, hears examples of native language, helps it to make hypotheses about incoming language. LAD Piaget - answer-cognitivist, development of thinking. PIES. a child must understand concepts before they can use language to describe it Bruner - answer-language is transactional in society, children learn language because it is necessary to get ...

embodied knowledge - correct answer routines, habits, tasks and information our bodies "understand" without conscious thought. ex. embodied knowledge - correct answer ex. riding a bike epistemology - correct answer giving attention to what our bodies tell us and observing what other's bodies tell us stigma (in relation to body language) - correct answer a mark of disgrace associated with a particular person (being closed off/crossing your arms) chronemics - correct answer how time...

Semiotics The study of signs Signifier The signifier is any material thing that signifies, e.g., words on a page, a facial expression, an image. The part of the sign that signposts the object (Saussure) Signified The signified is the concept, the meaning, the thing indicated by the signifier. The part of the sign that signposts the associated meaning. (Saussure) Iconic sign A sign that looks like its object. Eg. a picture (Charles Pierce) Symbolic sign Signs where the relation betwee...

Skinner - answer-behaviorism - learn from experience and feedback. keeps happening until automatic Chomsky - answer-a baby is born with universal grammar, hears examples of native language, helps it to make hypotheses about incoming language. LAD Piaget - answer-cognitivist, development of thinking. PIES. a child must understand concepts before they can use language to describe it Bruner - answer-language is transactional in society, children learn language because it is necessary to get ...

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Theorising ‘the visual’ in social research Visual Approaches in Sociology Semiotics (language of signs) Reading visual images (with examples)