I am just beginning to look at this subject
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http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Documents/S4B/sem02.html
A sign consists of the signified and the signifier
If what is signified is love,the signifier may vary … it can be a “x “.a bunch of flowers,a poem.
Of course it may be misunderstood if two people come from different cultures/countries or even different parts of the same country with maybe a different form of Christianity,with an atheisitic family etc
Some people tend to see a meaning in an act or word that was not intended…if carried too far it can lead to paranoia…I can imagine writing a funny play based on such confusion
Ferdinand de Saussure theorizes that a “sign“[clarification needed] has two parts: signifier and signified. The signifier is the form that the sign will take, whether it be a sound or image and the signified is the meaning that is conveyed.
Signifier: the word ‘tree’ = Signified: the mental image of a tree.
Charles Sanders Pierce analyzed sign systems and came up with the following: An Icon signifies by resemblance. An Indexical sign signifies by causal connection and finally, a Symbol signifies by learned convention.
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In the USA and in the UK we find fewer people are studying the humanities.Here it is because of the economic climate.. people wish to study “useful” subjects.Literature won’t get you a job,perhaps.It only enables you to live better.Already in schools the study of Greek and Latin has almost gone.
Economics still gets students………. odd considering that economists did not forecast the recession but were up to their necks in mathematical models.Economicis not a science and cannot be.I believe it’s a branch of philosophy in a broad sense.
I admit I did not study what we called “The Arts” at University but most of my friends did.But I read poetry.I liked Auden greatly.I read all the great novels.I read Doris Lessing and Iris Murdoch.I read Evelyn Waugh/I even read Nabokov…. what a writer!And I read Shakespeare Plays.
But with the much higher fees,recession and other worries,fewer students will spend three years studying the humanities.Plumbing or Carpentry are better options
I am thinking of writing some new plays.
A Fit Plumber’s Nightly Schemes
Witches astir.
Ham to let.
Sing Fear.
Make up for the Mind
A Midsummer Balls Up.
The Emptiest.
Please defreeze me,let me grow.
A man without limits
Much Ado about Hacking.
As you Recycle it.
Julius Seized the Emails.
Fool Us and Squeeze Us.
Twelfth Fright.
Hacked to Death.
The Blaming of the Guru,
Prospero Not.
http://www.debate.org/opinions/are-the-arts-too-elitist
http://theamericanscholar.org/the-decline-of-the-english-department/?key=55705194
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