PPT-Structuralism and Semiotics

By Madeline Hana Kelsie and Sidney kelsie sucks 1920s present Theory of signs or semiotics How language constructs our sense of reality Ferdinand Saussure saw language as the most important sign system and he created a twopart model. Theories: . Structuralism and Deconstruction. Short Story: “Everyday Use”. A . B. rief . I. ntroduction . to Structuralism. In order to understand Deconstruction, let’s talk for a moment abut Structuralism, which claims…. Roland Barthes’s . “Rhetoric of the Image’”. 04.09.12. ENGL 1301. EPCC. @. rwmonty. Objective. To analyze an artifact for its discursive features. Considers “linguistic” as well as visual components. Reading Contemporary Fiction. Lecture Week Seven. Structure of the lecture. Realism, a brief recap.. Modernism. Modernist . Fiction. Post-Structuralism and Post-Modernism. A Post-Modern text: 500 Days of Summer. THEORIES. , . THEORISTS. , AND IMPORTANT TERMS. By: K. Yegoryan. Critical Theory. Greek {. kritikos. } = judgment – 18. th. cent. In Literary studies . Is a form of “hermeneutics”- the knowledge via interpretation to understand the meaning of human texts and symbolic expressions. Structuralism & Semiotics. “Is this a dagger I see before me?”. (...I don’t know?!. Give me a sign...) . Approaching theory: . C. hoosing . to emphasise . a concept in a new way, is . much . Lecture 5: Critical & Post-structuralist IR. . Jevgenia Viktorova . University of St Andrews. E-mail: jv2. [ät] . st-and.ac.uk. Critical . theory. Post-. structuralist. . IR. Philosophical underpinnings: . calm punctuated by periods of turbulence (in the bottleneck moments of its cyclical recurrence) - the passage of time and history involves, at certain crucial points, the expenditure of mythical energ Dr. H. é. ctor Mu. ñ. oz-Avila. Assigned readings:. Chapters . 4 & 5 (Rules . of Play Book). Semiotics. (not “. symbology. ”). The study of how meanings are made. Created by a linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (early 1900s). A . structuralist. only maps what is there, without outside sources. Structuralism is all about the interpretation of the text and making connections within it. Pays attention to actual structure of the text, for example how certain words function within a sentence/paragraph . A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature. Chapter 5: Literature and Linguistics. I. Structuralism and Post-structuralism, Including Deconstruction. A. Structuralism: Contexts and Definitions. Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913), linguist. Claude Levi-Strauss (1908-2009), anthropologist. Roland Barthes (1915-1980), literary critic. Take a well-known media text. Let’s say, . The Dark Knight. Semiotics. Semiotics is, simply, the study of signs. As a culture, we see and understand signs all the time: stop signs, open or closed signs, signs telling us which is a male or female bathroom, etc.. The act of translation, Tejaswini Niranjana maintains, is a political action. Niranjana draws on Benjamin, Derrida, and de Man to show that translation has long been a site for perpetuating the unequal power relations among peoples, races, and languages. The traditional view of translation underwritten by Western philosophy helped colonialism to construct the exotic other as unchanging and outside history, and thus easier both to appropriate and control.Scholars, administrators, and missionaries in colonial India translated the colonized people\'s literature in order to extend the bounds of empire. Examining translations of Indian texts from the eighteenth century to the present, Niranjana urges post-colonial peoples to reconceive translation as a site for resistance and transformation. The word 'semiotics' dates back to ancient Greece, but its use in modern linguistics was propelled in the 19th century with the research of Ferdinand de Saussure. Saussure was a Swiss linguist who contributed greatly to the study of semiotics, also sometimes referred to as semiology. .