Elements of Roland Barthes
Translted by Annette Lavers and Colin Smith
INTRODUCTION
In hisCourse in General Linguistics, first publishedin 1916, Saussure postulated the existence of a generalscience of signs, or Semiology, of which linguisticswould form only one part. Semiology therefore aimsto take in any system of signs, whatever their sustance and limits; images, gestures, musical sounds,objects,and the complex associations of all these,whichformthecontentofritual,conventionorpublicentertainment:theseconstitute,ifnotlanguages, at least systems of signification. There is nodoubt that the development of mass communicationsconfers particular relevance today upon the vast fieldof signifying media, just when the success of disciplines such as linguistics, information theory, formallogic and structural anthropology provide semanticanalysis with new instruments. There is at presenta kind of demand for semiology, stemming not fromthe fads of a few scholars, but from the very historyof the modern world.
In hisCourse in General Linguistics, first publishedin 1916, Saussure postulated the existence of a generalscience of signs, or Semiology, of which linguisticswould form only one part. Semiology therefore aimsto take in any system of signs, whatever their sustance and limits; images, gestures, musical sounds,objects,and the complex associations of all these,whichformthecontentofritual,conventionorpublicentertainment:theseconstitute,ifnotlanguages, at least systems of signification. There is nodoubt that the development of mass communicationsconfers particular relevance today upon the vast fieldof signifying media, just when the success of disciplines such as linguistics, information theory, formallogic and structural anthropology provide semanticanalysis with new instruments. There is at presenta kind of demand for semiology, stemming not fromthe fads of a few scholars, but from the very historyof the modern world.
ক্যাটাগোরিগুলো:
সাল:
1968
প্রকাশক:
Hill and Wang - New York
ভাষা:
english
পৃষ্ঠা:
111
ISBN:
6830769
বইয়ের সিরিজ:
68-30769
ফাইল:
PDF, 4.71 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1968