Saussure
The bond between a signifier and signified is...
(it is not natural or motivated).
What is arbitrary?
Pronounce this name correctly: Charles Peirce.
True or false: If you walk into a bookshop and ask for a book on semiotics, you will most likely be met with a blank stare.
True (Chandler, 1)
A type of sign that physically resembles what it represents.
What is an icon?
This fantastic woman introduced the concept of intertextuality.
Who is Julia Kristeva?
This term describes the sound-image or acoustic impression of a word (one half of the 'Sign')
What is the Signifier?
This type of Peircean sign has a direct connection to its object (think of smoke to fire)
What is an Index?
What (the hell) is semiotics?
What is 'the study of signs'?
When a visual element stands for something by convention (heart for love, e.g.), it is called what?
What is a symbol?
What is an empty signifier?
What is a signifier with no definite signified?
Saussure distinguished between the abstract system of language and its individual use in speech with these two terms.
What are langue and parole?
Saussure's conception of the Sign relies on a dyadic model. Peirce's is what?
This concept enables a semiotic code to form an infinite number of meaningful combinations using a small number of low-level units which in themselves are meaningless.
What is double articulation?
Fill in the blank: Meaning in language arises from differences without _________ terms.
What is positive?
Who is Roland Barthes?
How are 'concept' and 'sound-image' related to Saussure's concept of the Sign?
What is concept as signified, sound-image as signifier?
What are the parts that consist of Peirce's model of the sign?
What is the representamen, the interpretant, and the object?
The term denoting a pure one-to-one correspondence between word and thing as it appears in the material world.
What is a language world isomorphism?
What is the smallest meaningful unit of language?
What is the morpheme?
What joke did Aisling tell Tucker during a car ride to campus after Tucker angrily said "There's no sign", while searching for information regarding parking?
What is "There is only the signifier."
True or false: True onomatopoeic words are not selected arbitrarily, as there is a clear and direct natural correspondence to the signifier and signified.
What is false?
This is the 'mental understanding' of the sign created in the interpreter's mind, which renders interpretation dynamic rather than fixed.
What is the interpretant?
Saussure terms this word as the study of the role of signs as part of social life.
What is semiology?
What is the term for the individual sounds that make up words?
What is a phoneme?
What did Saussure see linguistics as a branch of?
What is Semiology?