Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Preliminary Exercise 1: Barthes’ Theory of Denotative and Connotative Signs

 The objective key concept of this lesson is semiotics. Semiotics is the study of signs and symbols and there uses or interpretation. Roland Barthes  played a huge part in the semiotic analysis. Roland Barthes was a French essayist, social and literary critic, philosopher, theorist, and semiotician. Roland Barthes' theory was anything part of a culture can be a sign that sends a specific message. An example of this is denotations and connotations.The definition of denotation is literal definitions and symbols, while connotations are the meanings associated with the image/symbols. An example of connotations is a black dress it represents death, horror, and fright. A denotative example of a black dress is a Lon ramen worn on the body in the color black.


The objective of the activity and the process of the task is to understand the concept of semiotics by choosing 3 out of 6 pictures, a cat, rose, broken shoes, an eagle, a tree, and a car, and to give their denotative and connotative means.As well as its definitions, and connotative and denotative meaning.Only two students were allowed to work on the document/assignment being me and Brooke N. In this exercise I learned that practically anything can have a denotative and connotative meaning, how they apply in the real world and how we use them with out even knowing.




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