Semiotic Analysis | Ferdinand de Saussure & Charles Sanders Pierce Theories Explained for Beginners
Semiotics (also known as semiology and less commonly as semiosis) is the study of signs. Signs are representations of actual objects, actions or ideas of this world. Understanding the how signs are created to produce meaning is an important part of cultural studies.
0:00 - Intro
0:21 - Semiotics - The Basics
1:57 - Ferdinand de Saussure
2:22 - Signifiers & Signifieds
3:50 - Producing Meaning
5:52 - Language as a Social Phenomenon
7:29 - Systems of Representation
9:57 - Charles Sanders Pierce
10:30 - Semiosis as a Process
11:29 - Interpretant, Representamen, Object
13:38 - Icon, Index, Symbol
16:09 - Recap of Semiotics
17:45 - Linking Semiotics to Cultural Studies
19:50 - Conclusion
This video is the first in a series of videos that I will be making on the foundational theories of communication studies. Not everyone's communications degree is the same but I think that they are all trying to get us to approach the world in the same way which is why I'm making these videos.
Here is the link to the media blog post where I read about Charles Sanders Pierce's theories: / charles-sanders-peirce...
I didn't learn about Pierce in school, probably because semiotics was really only taught as a precursor to representation theory, and maybe also because his theories are a little more convoluted!
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Omg please don't ever delete this video! It's amazing!
@itscheyennecassidy
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hahaha wasn’t planning on it!
Small point, but it's C.S. Peirce (prounounced "purse"), not "Pierce." Otherwise a great summary!
Thank you so much!!!
Well done!
So helpful for my Linguistic Anthro class online.
Thank you for making this vid it was very helpful ❤❤
Very helpful, thank you.
Can you give the "tree" example, but through Pierce's interpretant, representamen, and object?
Good to hear but thou art could give references of Jackson’s too
Guuurrrl you NAILED it hammer mallet bang bang👏🏼👏🏼👍🏼👍🏼 I am in awe ! Kudos and keep up. I can only add zeitgeist as a term for generational meaning changes. Beautifully explained. Representation sublime! 😇
I would add 2 things to this video: firstly: both sides of Saussures sign (signifier/signified) are mental concepts. They do not represent anything in the real world or a real object. Even though one might think the signifier could be the phonetic image and so it would something which is uttered in real life but it isn't. The signifier represents a mental image of the phonetic realisation that we have in our heads before we utter it. Saussure explains that with the fact the we can also read in our mind without actually saying the words that we read. Secondly: the relationship between signified and signifier is arbitrary for Saussure but at the same time these 2 sides of the sign cannot be torn apart otherwise each individual side would be a chaotic "mass". If the two signs would not be connected through langue we could not tell 2 concepts/signified apart from each other since we do not have the fitting signiefier. The same goes for if we have 2 signifier/ phonetic images, if we do not have the fitting concept/ signified for the two we cannot tell them apart from eacht other. I think these two were missing but still great video to get introduced into this topic! I hope it was understable what I wrote since English is not my mother tongue and I also learned about Saussures theory in a different language.
Girl I’m doing my essay and you made this so much easier for me 🥺
You are so cute, educated and smart. The guy who marries you will be a lucky man. I love how you use your hands while explaining in this video. I was not born in Canada, I have lived in Canada for 9 years and grew up in Hamilton, Ontario. I am south asian.
Thank you so much my paper is literally due in 12 hours and this is so helpful!
@rommemory282
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how'd you do on it?
Again, incredibly useful and helpful!
Can you also do a video about the propaganda model by Herman and Chomsky? Thanks!
@itscheyennecassidy
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this is definitely on my list!
Studying semiotics in uni :D very useful video! Thank you
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Useful, thank you!
Thank you so much! Writing an assignment on Saussure and Pierce and was really struggling to find resources to help me actually understand Pierce's theory.
All these big words that I don't know are pretty exciting - I don't know anything about communication as a degree, but I do really enjoy learning about different disciplines and social sciences (is communication a social science? lol)
@itscheyennecassidy
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yes its a social science!