Semiotics

Question 1

What is a sign?

Answer 1

A sign is anything that can be heard or seen on a screen or page.
They aren’t limited to words but can be images, gestures or sounds.
All of ways in which text can be communicated in media.

Question 2

An example of a sign?

Answer 2

Words
Images
Use of colour
Symbols on the page

Question 3

What is signifier?

Answer 3

The physical form/ literally what it is to create meaning.

Question 4

What is signified?

Answer 4

The concept or idea associated with the signifier?

Question 5

What is signification?

Answer 5

All 3 added together (sign, signifier and signified) which creates the meaning.

Question 6

What is the icon (Pierce)

Answer 6

Signs that are meant to resemble or imitate the object they represent.

Question 7

What is the symbol (Pierce)?

Answer 7

Signs that have a culturally associated relationship with the object they represent. E.G maths symbols.

Question 8

What is an index (Pierce)?

Answer 8

Signs that have a direct, casual or physical connection to the object they represent. E.G Footsteps in the snow indicates someone walked there.