Semiotics

Introduction Unleashed, created by a business at Butler University, is an advanced product, currently in the process of development, that completely revolutionizes the dog walking experience. It takes a once strenuous task and changes it into a stress free and positive experience for the pet as well as his owner. Unleashed is a collar that allows you to unleash your canine and go for walks without the hassle of lunging and pulling. With this product, pet owners can venture out with their pups…

the mind and soul but it has been around for a long time. People are constantly listening to music and often turn to it as a source of inspiration. This literature review will look at how the music industry has changed over the years by giving a semiotic analysis on the comparison of 2 well known music artists’; Dolly Parton and Nicki Minaj’s in terms of their song lyrics, how they were considered style icons of that era, their physical appearances. In this research plan and literature review,…

In Gee’s article “Semiotic Social Spaces and Affinity Spaces” he first discusses the rhetoric behind the idea that a community is a “community” (214). A community implies that there is membership and for their to be members or membership means that some people or group of people need to be excluded. That is why Gee argues that we should no longer be call classrooms communities but instead call them spaces. A space is just an area or place to be used and does not by definition exclude anyone. To…

Jeanette Winterson is a British writer, she is also a lesbian. Being a lesbian writer has become a common identifier when she would rather be referred to as a writer who is a lesbian. In “The Semiotics of Sex,” Jeanette Winterson tackles the inherent relationship between the artist and their artwork by digging through the biased judgment that encases it. According to Winterson, using sexual preference “to judge the work of the writer” creates a distorted reality about their work of art (173).…

actually has a lot of depth that one normally doesn’t notice right off the bat; luckily I’ve seen almost every episode. I will attempt to break apart a certain scene from season 10 that I found particularly funny through the use of Rhetorical and Semiotic analysis. The reason I only chose the scene in season 10 episode 1 from 23:00-23:45 minutes is because there is entirely too much happening throughout the episode. The events that take place relate to more than one episode in the…

This essay provides a semiotic analysis of two images, an illustration and an advertisement. The illustration is by Charles Stanley Renhardt called “Summer at the Cape of Good Hope- Afternoon Tea on the stoep” and it dates back to 1882. The advertisement is for “Frank Rippingille’s Patent Cooking Stoves” and it dates back to 1897. The semiotic analysis will be describing the denotative depictions of the two images and in turn will provide the connotative meanings base on Victorian Values. In…

For my semiotic analysis I will be comparing the websites of two childrens tv series’ websites, How To Train Your Dragon and My Little Pony. These are two of the most popular children shows for todays generation. I will be exploring the codes and design elements used, how they convey ideas and are aimed toward a certain demographic. The main elements of a website include the logo, navigation, colour, font and the graphic design or the information and the layout. These elements work together to…

Semiotics and marketing has been seen as two areas that have nothing in common but when studied more closely, they reveal their affinities. Brand marketing aims to develop the identity of a company and to distinguish it from other competitors and here where the two disciplines converge. In fact, managing the Brand identity demands managing the brand meanings or semiotics. The semiotics function of a brand is to define the mangement strategy and process in order to develop a position and a Brand…

According to Saussure, a sign is a combination of a sound-image or “signifier” and concept or “signified”. One key concept in understanding semiotics is that the relationship between the signifier and the signified is always arbitrary. But since there is no logical connection between a word and a concept, the meanings that signifiers posses must somehow be learned. This implies that there are certain “codes” that evolve within a society or culture, which help individuals generate meaning from…

Reciprocal and semiotic causation are just two types I have talked about. This chapter examines event and agent causation, and the similarities and differences between the two. Event causation is something that happens as the result of an event. Agent causation states that…