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  1. Roland Barthes was a French philosopher and a semiotician. He explored a diverse range of fields including anthropology, semiotics and social theory.
  2. C S Pierce was a linguistic, he came up with Iconic signs, Indexical signs and symbolic signs.
  3. Ferdinand de Saussure was a Swiss Linguistic and semiotician, his ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments in both semiology and linguistics
  4. Semiotics – is the study of signs.
  5. Sign – A gesture or action used to convey meaning.
  6. Signifier – A signs physical form, such as a sound or a printed word.
  7. Signified – The meaning or idea expressed by a sign, as distinct from the physical form in which its expressed.
  8. Iconic Sign – A sign that looks like its object.
  9. Indexical Sign – A sign that has a link to its object.
  10. Symbolic Sign – A sign that has an arbitrary or random link to its object.
  11. Code – A system of words, letters, figures or symbols used to represent others.
  12. Dominant Signifier – A mainly accepted form of a sign. 
  13. Anchorage – Is when a piece of media uses another piece of media to reduce the amount of connotations in the first.
  14. Paradigm – A collection of signs
  15. Syntagm –
  16. Signification –
  17. Denotation –
  18. Connotation –
  19. Myth – Something that is made up which is acknowledged and used by society, sometimes in stories.
  20. Dominant Ideology – The main / dominant idea
  21. A Radical Text – A text that challenges a dominant ideology.
  22. A Reactionary text – A text that supports a dominant ideology.

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  1. Good try Charlie, here’s some help:

    20. Myth – Is something that people believe to be a lie or false.

    19. Connotation – It’s always usually the second level of analysis (what the denotation) represents.

    18. Denotation – Always the primary level of analysis, and it is the literal meaning of a word

    17. Signification – a message being conveyed by a sign, so a drawing, an image or text

    16. Signs that occur in a certain sequence or operate together

    NICE TRY THOUGH CHARLIE!
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