Semiotics
Who are the two linguistic philosophers that semiotics is developed from?
The two Linguistic philosophers that semeiotics is developed from are De Saussure and pierce
- Which French ‘Structuralist’ recently developed this media concept?
- The two methods
The French Structuralist that recently developed this media concept is called
Roland Barthes, which was developed in the 1960s.
- Describing the TEXT is called The starting point
- Myths and associations with the TEXT is called Connotations
- What quest is at the heart of the semiotic approach?
- Identify the factor that is given for readings of a media texts that determines the variety of meanings it can give?
- What word is given for OPEN TEXTS ?
- The word given for open texts is called Polysemic
- Popular and mass culture e.g. mass media texts are known as closed texts.
- _________ where words, captions or logos are used to direct a reader towards a particular meaning.
- __________ is when a text prefers one particular meaning. These can be a result of media producers agendas and assumptions.
- Define Stuart Hall’s THREE main types of audience decoding.
- DOMINANT- When the reader accepts the full preferred reading by the text.
- NEGOTIATED- Negotiated is where the content of the message is adapted to fit the specific social condition of the reader to produce a new meaning. i.e. middle-class women may respond to advert portraying female as a sex object as OK but not for me, she may have other ideas on how to assert
- OPPOSITIONAL - Where the dominant reading is contested and a reading which opposes it is produced. i.e. feminist may see the same image as degrading to all women and exploitative.
- How media texts speak to an audience is known as _____ ________
- Describe how this is applied to FILMS and TELEVISION
- Define what the MALE GAZE is ?
- What is Semiotics?
- How could you apply this to a MUSIC VIDEO ?
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