Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Semiotics
- Saussure
- Signifier
- The thing you perceive (i.e. a tree)
- Signified
- The concept recalled (i.e. thinking of a pine tree)
- Referent
- The intended meaning
- Pierce
- Icon
- Picture
- Index
- Sign requiring context
- Symbol
- Culturally defined
- CONNOTATION
- Similar to SIGNIFIED
- Icons are connotative
- Relationship between signifier and signified
- DENOTATION
- The surface, or literal meaning
- SEMANTICS
- Language that describes content -- focuses on meaning