UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CHIMBORAZOFacultad: Ciencias de la educación

 

Escuela: Idioma 

Students: Manuel Lema, William Coro 

Teacher: msg. Cesar Narvaez  

Semester: 7mo

THE MEANING OF SIGNS

• What is the nature of relation between signifier and signified?

• In other words, how do sign mean? When Emely Dickinson uses in her poem words like “rose” or “rosemary”, these words point to objects that grow in the real gardens of the real world.

SIGNIFIER

• Red rose with a green stem.

SIGNIFIED

• A symbol of passion and love – this is what the rose represent.

DENOTATIVE VS CONNOTATIVE

• The denotation of a word is its explicit definition as listed in a dictionary. Let’s use the word “home” as an example. The denotative or literal meaning of “home” is “ a place where one lives; a residence.” Hint: Denotation, denotative, definition, and dictionary all start with the letter ‘D.

CONNOTATION

• set of associations that a word usually brings to mind. The connotative meaning of “home” is a place of security, comfort, and family.

ICONS

• a picture, image, or other representation.

ICONIC

• relating to, or having the characteristics of an icon.

Examples

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