Semiotics: The Basics  30683

  • Introduction
    • Definitions
    • Relation to philosophy and linguistics
    • Why study semiotics?
  1. Models of the sign
    • The Saussurean model
    • The relational system
    • Arbitrariness
    • The Peircean model
    • Jakobson’s model
    • Sign relations
    • Symbolicity
    • Iconicity
    • Indexicality
    • Mixed modes
    • Types and tokens
    • Rematerializing the sign
    • Hjelmslev’s model
    • Reflections
    • Further reading
  2. Signs and things
    • Naming things
    • Referentiality
    • Modality
    • The word is not the thing
    • Empty signifiers
    • Reflections
    • Further reading
  3. Analysing structures
    • Horizontal and vertical axes
    • The paradigmatic dimension
    • The commutation test
    • Oppositions
    • Markedness
    • Deconstruction
    • Alignment
    • The semiotic square
    • The syntagmatic dimension
    • Spatial relations
    • Sequential relations
    • Structural reducation
    • Langue and parole
    • Reflections
    • Further reading
  4. Challenging the literal
    • Rhetorical tropes
    • Metaphor
    • Metonymy
    • Synecdoche
    • Irony
    • Master tropes
    • Denotation and connotation
    • Myth
    • Reflections
    • Further reading
  5. Codes
    • The language model
    • Digital and analogue codes
    • Typologies
    • Interpretive codes
    • Social codes
    • Representational codes
    • Genre
    • Aesthetic realisms
    • Invisible editing
    • Codificiation
    • Limitations
    • Reflections
    • Further reading
  6. Interactions
    • Models of communication
    • Context
    • The positioning of the subject
    • Modes of address
    • Intertextuality
    • Problematizing authorship
    • No text is an island
    • Intratextuality
    • Types of intertextuality
    • Reflections
    • Further reading
  7. Prospect and retrospect
    • Structuralistic semiotics
    • Poststructuralist semiotics
    • The return of Saussure
    • Methodologies
    • An ecological and multimodal approach
    • Reflections
    • Further reading
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